This section focuses on the operational and maintenance issues relating to Victoria's roads and traffic. Information such as traffic management practices and initiatives, maintenance practices and performance measures are included here.

Victoria's roads are vital to support our industries, to create economic growth and jobs. They are the main way we get to work and school and access community services, and they allow us to enjoy a great variety of recreation and social activities, from going to the football, to visiting friends.

Almost all goods in the metropolitan area and more than 80 per cent of goods in country Victoria are carried by road. Efficient freight routes and links with our manufacturing and distribution centres, ports and airports, are essential to reduce the costs of transporting our products to local and overseas markets.

Our service and tourism industries also rely heavily on an efficient and safe road system. These industries are among our biggest employers and in the case of tourism, one of our biggest income earners.

Our roads must be managed to provide safe and efficient conditions for public transport (buses,trams and taxis), private and business cars, freight vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.

Inadequate roads can also be a factor in road crashes which cost our community hundreds of millions of dollars each year in lost productivity, property damage, higher insurance premiums and hospital and rehabilitation treatment, as well as the suffering of victims and their families.