Roads of Strategic Importance

Roads of Strategic Importance is a $5.8 billion initiative of the Australian Government designed to help connect regional businesses to local and international markets, and to better connect regional communities. The source for this article is an Australian Government website titled "Roads of Strategic Importance". Funding by the Australian Government is up to 80% of total costs, with the remainder being met by state, territory and local governments. ROSI reserves $1.5 billion for projects in Northern Australia, building on the benefits being delivered by the Northern Australia Roads Program and the Northern Australia Beef Roads Program.

Types of work

ROSI is ensuring that key freight roads efficiently connect agricultural and mining regions to ports, airports and other transport hubs. The work undertaken includes bridge and culvert construction, road widening, sealing, overtaking lanes and pavement renewal.

Strategic corridors

Most ROSI projects are grouped within defined corridors, which are listed separately in alphabetic sequence for each of Northern and Southern Australia. A corridor includes roads and related infrastructure associated with the efficient operation of the principal highway or road in the corridor. Each corridor listed contains zero to many projects, some of which pertain to a single road while others cover multiple roads and/or related infrastructure.

Northern Australia corridors

to
Alice Springs to
Alice Springs to
to Northern Territory border
to
to
Mid-west secondary freight network
Mount Isa to
to
NT gas industry roads upgrades
to
Townsville to

Southern Australia corridors

to
Barton Highway
to
to Robinvale
Great Northern Highway – bypass
Great southern secondary freight network
Green triangle
to
Melbourne to
to
to
to South Australia border
Tasmanian roads package
to
to
Toowoomba to
Wheatbelt secondary freight network

Non-corridor initiatives

ROSI projects

For each corridor or project in the source document with a link indicator there is a linked Project Description web page or PDF document. The project description shows some or all of the following details:

Benefits
Funding
Timetable
Status

One named corridor has no associated projects, and several named projects have no linked Project Description. This article will be updated when further details become available.

Queensland projects

Refer to Roads of Strategic Importance in Queensland for a list of ROSI projects in Queensland. The document shows which projects have been copied to relevant Wikipedia articles. The project "Cairns to NT border corridor – Ootann Road Sealing", which is not identified in the source document for this article, has been copied to the relevant Wikipedia article.

Parliamentary report

The Parliament of Australia has produced a report on transport infrastructure that includes extensive details of the Roads of Strategic Importance Initiative, among others.