List of highways in Tasmania
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The Highways in Tasmania generally expand from Hobart and other major cities with secondary roads interconnecting the highways to each other. Functions of these highways include freight, personal travel and tourism.
The AusLink Network currently consists of the Midland, Bass, Brooker, East Tamar Highway and the southern section of the Tasman Highway (Hobart-Hobart Airport).
Tasmanian highway naming is straightforward. Most are generally named after the geographical regions and features, cities, towns and settlements along the way.
Excluding the old National Highway (Brooker, Midland, Bass), Tasmanian routes have been marked with the alphanumeric marking scheme since 1979, based on the marking scheme implemented in the United Kingdom in 1922.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Prior to this Tasmanian roads were marked with a National and State Route Numbering System.
Highways are a part of Tasmania's road network, which covers a distance of approximately Template:Convert. As well as major highways between cities and ports, urban connectors between suburbs and commercial areas, residential streets, and forestry roads are also included. The most important state and regional connections, totalling Template:Convert, are state-owned roads, which are further classified into a road hierarchy.<ref name=hierarchy>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp The herirachy consists of:
- Trunk roads – major highways which are the "primary freight and passenger roads"<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
- Regional freight roads – regional roads which connect heavy freight to the trunk roads<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
- Regional access roads – providing access to Tasmania’s Regions, with less traffic than trunk and regional freight roads<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
- Feeder roads – connect population centres and tourist traffic to and from the rest of the state road network<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
- Other roads – lower traffic roads, primarily providing access to private properties<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
Trunk roads
The following roads are classified as trunk roads:<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
- Template:AUshield Bass Highway (Launceston to Wynyard)
- Template:AUshield Brooker Highway
- Template:AUshield Davey Street
- Template:AUshield Domain Highway
- Template:AUshield East Tamar Highway
- Template:AUshield Illawarra Road
- Template:AUshield Macquarie Street
- Template:AUshield Midland Highway
- Template:AUshield Southern Outlet
- Template:AUshield Tasman Highway (Hobart to Hobart Airport)
Regional freight roads
The following roads are classified as regional freight roads:<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
- Template:AUshield Bass Highway (Wynyard to Smithton)
- Template:AUshield Batman Highway
- Template:AUshield Birralee Road
- Template:AUshield Bridport Road
- Template:AUshield Fingerpost Road
- Template:AUshield Frankford Road (Exeter to Birralee)
- Template:AUshield Freestone Point Road
- Template:AUshield Huon Highway (Kingston to Huonville)
- Template:AUshield Lyell Highway (Granton to Rosegarland)
- Template:AUshield Old Surrey Road
- Template:AUshield Ridgley Highway
- Template:AUshield Tasman Highway (Hobart Airport to Triabunna, and Legerwood to Scottsdale)
- Template:AUshield Tea Tree Road
- Template:AUshield West Tamar Highway (Exeter to Sidmouth)
Regional access roads
The following roads are classified as regional access roads:<ref name=hierarchy />Template:Rp
- Template:AUshield Channel Highway (Kingston to Kettering)
- Template:AUshield Huon Highway (Huonville to Dover)
- Template:AUshield Arthur Highway
- Template:AUshield South Arm Highway (Warrane to Howrah)
- Template:AUshield East Derwent Highway
- Template:AUshield Goodwood Road
- Template:AUshield Tasman Highway (Triabunna to Swansea, and Falmouth to St Helens)
- Template:AUshield Lyell Highway (Rosegarland to Queenstown)
- Template:AUshield Esk Highway
- Template:AUshield Lilydale Road
- Template:AUshield West Tamar Highway (Launceston to Exeter)
- Template:AUshield Zeehan Highway
- Template:AUshield Murchison Highway (Zeehan to Guildford)
- Template:AUshield Stony Rise Road
- Template:AUshield Mersey Main Road
- Template:AUshield Railton Road (Latrobe to Railton)
- Template:AUshield Port Sorell Road (East Devonport)
See also
- List of road routes in Tasmania
- Highways in Australia for highways in other states and territories
- List of highways in Australia for roads named as highways, but not necessarily classified as highways
References
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Further reading
- Commonwealth Bureau of Roads (Australia) (1978) National highways linking Hobart, Launceston and Burnie : approaches to Hobart. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, Parliamentary paper PP no. 124/1977 Chairman: H.T. Loxton. Template:ISBN
- Newitt, Lyn, (1988) Convicts & carriageways : Tasmanian road development until 1880 edited by Alan Jones. Hobart : Dept. of Main Roads, Tasmania, Template:ISBN