Strategic Route
A Strategic Route is a road or a section of a road which is considered to be strategic by virtue of the number and/or type of vehicles using it.
Victoria Grants Commission
The Victoria Grants Commission's Questionnaire Manual notes that:
- Care should be taken in identifying strategic routes (as a subset of total local roads) as this information is used specifically in calculating your Council’s local roads grant.
- In the case of urban roads:
- In all volume categories, bus and/or tram routes on urban local roads are defined as strategic routes. Bus routes include both normal scheduled public transport routes and school-only routes in urban areas, but only where those routes are on local roads.
- In addition, for urban local roads carrying less than 500 vpd, those roads carrying at least 50 trucks per day (on average) are considered to be strategic routes.
- In the case of rural roads:
- In all volume categories, bus routes on rural local roads are defined as strategic routes. Bus routes include both normal scheduled public transport routes and school-only routes, in rural areas, but only where those routes are on local roads.
- In addition, for rural local roads carrying less than 100 vpd (other than natural surface roads), the following roads are considered to be strategic routes:
- roads carrying at least 10 trucks per day (on average);or
- roads within an average grade of at least 6%; or
- roads in a drip or flood irrigated horticultural or agricultural area.
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