List of highways in Victoria

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The Great Alpine Road passing through Everton, Victoria.

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Princes Freeway at Lara

The highways in Victoria are the highest density in any state in Australia. Unlike Australia's other mainland states where vast areas are very sparsely inhabited "outback", population centres spread out over most of the state, with only the far north-west and the Victorian Alps lacking permanent settlement. Highways have therefore been built to service the population centres.

The highways generally radiate from Melbourne and other major cities and rural centres with secondary roads interconnecting the highways to each other.

Most routes have higher traffic than most other states. Highways such as Hume Highway, Western Highway, South Gippsland Highway and Princes Highway have some of the heaviest traffic in Australia.

Many of the highways are built to freeway standard ("M" freeways), while most others are generally sealed and of reasonable quality.

Numbering

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Victorian cities, towns, settlements and road network.

Victorian highway naming is straightforward. Most are generally named after the geographical regions and features, cities, towns and settlements along the way. Some are even more straightforward e.g. Western and Northern highways which radiate westwards and northwards from Melbourne. Notable exceptions include some interstate highways and some metropolitan highways.

The numbering system is based on "ring and spoke" system. The 'ring' highways (highways that circle Victoria) numbers are given in the multiple of hundreds e.g. Henty Highway (200), Murray Valley Highway (400) and Great Alpine Road (500) make the outermost ring. Midland Highway (300) and Maroondah Highway (300) is the inner ring.

The spokes generally inherit their original National Route numbers. Otherwise, east-west aligned highways are given even numbers and north-south are given odd numbers. Highways and primary roads are given numbers in multiple of tens. Other roads are given numbers which indicate their general alignment.

Freeways

Route Marker	Roads
Template:AUshield M1	Geelong Ring Road Princes Freeway (west) West Gate Freeway CityLink (southern link) Monash Freeway Princes Freeway (east)
Template:AUshield M2	Tullamarine Freeway CityLink (western link)
Template:AUshield M3	Eastern Freeway Eastlink Frankston Freeway
Template:AUshield M4	West Gate Tunnel (Under Construction)
Template:AUshield M8	Western Freeway
Template:AUshield M11	Mornington Peninsula Freeway
Template:AUshield M31	Hume Freeway
Template:AUshield M39	Goulburn Valley Freeway
Template:AUshield M79	Calder Freeway
Template:AUshield M80	Western Ring Road Metropolitan Ring Road North East Link
Template:AUshield M420	South Gippsland Freeway

Primary highways

Route Marker	Roads
Template:AUshield A1	Princes Highway
Template:AUshield A8	Western Highway
Template:AUshield A10	Princes Highway
Template:AUshield A20	Sturt Highway
Template:AUshield A39	Goulburn Valley Highway
Template:AUshield A79	Calder Highway
Template:AUshield A200	Henty Highway
Template:AUshield A300	Midland Highway
Template:AUshield A420	Bass Highway
Template:AUshield A440 Template:AUshield A21	South Gippsland Highway
Template:AUshieldA780	Western Port Highway

Secondary highways

Route Marker	Roads
Template:AUshield B12	Mallee Highway
Template:AUshield B23	Monaro Highway
Template:AUshield B75	Northern Highway
Template:AUshield B100	Great Ocean Road Surf Coast Highway
Template:AUshield B110	Bellarine Highway Nepean Highway
Template:AUshield B120	Hopkins Highway
Template:AUshield B140	Hamilton Highway
Template:AUshield B160	Glenelg Highway
Template:AUshield B180	Pyrenees Highway
Template:AUshield B200	Henty Highway
Template:AUshield B220	Sunraysia Highway
Template:AUshield B240	Wimmera Highway
Template:AUshield B260	Loddon Valley Highway
Template:AUshield B280	McIvor Highway
Template:AUshield B300	Goulburn Valley Highway Maroondah Highway Melba Highway Midland Highway
Template:AUshield B320	Maroondah Highway
Template:AUshield B340	Goulburn Valley Highway Maroondah Highway
Template:AUshield B360	Maroondah Highway
Template:AUshield B380	Warburton Highway
Template:AUshield B400	Murray Valley Highway
Template:AUshield B420	Phillip Island Road
Template:AUshield B460	Bass Highway Strzelecki Highway
Template:AUshield B500	Great Alpine Road

Tertiary highways

Route Marker	Roads
Template:AUshield C119	Skenes Creek Rd
Template:AUshield C141	Template:Plainlist
Template:AUshield C155	Colac–Lavers Hill Rd
Template:AUshield C157	Lighthouse Rd
Template:AUshield C159	Beech Forest–Lavers Hill Rd
Template:AUshield C162	Timboon–Port Campbell Rd
Template:AUshield C166	Princetown Rd
Template:AUshield C234	Borung Highway
Template:AUshield C239	Borung Highway
Template:AUshield C412	Burwood Highway
Template:AUshield C444	Wilsons Promontory Rd
Template:AUshield C482	Hyland Highway
Template:AUshield C524	Buckland Gap Rd
Template:AUshield C531	Kiewa Valley Highway
Template:AUshield C536	Tawonga Gap Rd
Template:AUshield C543	Omeo Highway
Template:AUshield C605	Swan Reach Rd
Template:AUshield C704	Bacchus Marsh Rd
Template:AUshield C754	Melton Highway
Template:AUshield C777 Template:AUshield C784	Moorooduc Highway

Urban highways

Route Marker	Roads
Template:AUshield State Route 8	Western Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 9	Dandenong Valley Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 10	State (Lower Dandenong/Cheltenham) Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 15	Warrigal Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 21	Chandler Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 26	Burwood Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 27	Plenty Valley Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 28	Mountain Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 29	Hoddle Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 34	Maroondah Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 40	State (Bell/Springvale) Highway
Template:AUshield State Route 55	Hume Highway

In addition, several metropolitan roads have been given highway designation, mainly in Melbourne. For details see List of highways in Melbourne

See also

• 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
• Road transport in Victoria