Roads of Strategic Importance (ROSI) 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". [1] 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. [2]
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.
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.
For each corridor or project in the source document with a link indicator (underline) there is a linked Project Description web page or PDF document. The project description shows some or all of the following details:
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.
NOTE: Refer to the Talk page for information on updating this section.
Details of the following projects have been copied to relevant Wikipedia articles:
Known ROSI projects not identified in the source document are listed below:
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