Road Photos & Information
Tasmania
Welcome sign on Holyman Av, Cambridge, exiting Hobart Airport. Image © Hobart Airport.
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Tasmania is an island state that covers an area of 68 401 square kilometres on the south-easternmost part of Australia. 1
The State-owned road network consists of 3650 km of road. The State road network primarily consists of roads that provide connectivity between cities, major towns, rural catchments and key port and air transport hubs. The Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources has adopted a five-tier hierarchy. 2
The Hierarchy identifies five categories of roads: 2
- Category 1 - Trunk Roads
- The primary freight and passenger roads connecting Tasmania.
- Category 2 - Regional Freight Road
- Tasmania's major regional roads for carrying heavy freight
- Category 3 - Regional Access Road
- The main access roads to Tasmania's Regions, carrying less heavy freight traffic than Regional Freight Roads
- Category 4 - Feeder Road
- Allowing safe travel between towns, major tourist destinations and industrial areas
- Category 5 - Other Roads
- The remainder of the State Roads
Tasmania route numbering system is alphanumeric. Tasmania was the first state to introduce alphanumeric routes, with the exception of one route – National Highway 1. This is because of a Federal Government requirement, when the system was introduced, that the National Highway route be signposted with the traditional National Highway shield. Before the introduction of alphanumeric route numbering in the late 1970s, a small collection of State Routes existed, similar to those used in other states prior to the introduction of alphanumeric route numbers.
To view each gallery, click or tap on a sign or route number below.
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Alphanumeric routes are the main form of route numbering in Tasmania. Roads are numbered with A, B and C prefixes indicating the importance / standard of the route.
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The green and gold route markers indicate routes which are part of the National Highway System. They indicate the most direct routes between major cities.
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Routes that were once numbered using the previous hierarchical route numbering scheme or routes that have had their number removed due to diminished importance.
2 Tasmanian Government, Tasmanian Department of Infrstructure, Energy and Resources