Project background and challenges
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Seven different Council areas, all with different road hierarchy’s and perceptions of their own road importance.
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Large road network covering the south east Limestone Coast of South Australia.
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Significant interstate interaction due to the close proximity of Victoria.
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Several different modes of transport considered investigated, namely; road, rail, air and sea.
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A better focus was required on connections within towns rather that the larger scale town to town transport routes.
Investigation and outcomes
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Three different types of transport were looked at; social, freight and tourist.
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Social routes looked at population centres and the essential services provided by them. This dictated the requirements for a regionally significant route.
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Large freight generators were looked at and roads carrying more than 50,000 tonnes annually were considered to be regionally significant.
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Tourist routes were classified as routes that were advertises interstate or internationally.
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A greater emphasis was placed on townships, with larger towns having maps showing the town network and roads linking essential services or industrial zones within towns to the major bypass routes.