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Regulatory signs shall be used to inform road
users of selected traffic laws or regulations
and indicate
the applicability of the legal requirements.
Regulatory signs shall be installed at or near
where the regulations apply. The signs shall
clearly indicate the requirements imposed by the
regulations and shall be designed and installed
to provide adequate visibility and legibility in
order to obtain compliance.
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STOP, YIELD, Speed Limit, FINES HIGHER, and Photo
Enforcement Signs
Speed Limit and Turn Prohibition Signs
Unsignalized Pedestrian Crosswalk Signs
ONE WAY and Divided Highway Crossing Signs
Passing, Keep Right, and Truck Lane Signs
No Parking Signs
Pedestrian Signs
Pedestrian Signs
Road Closed Signs
Weight Limit Signs |
Intersection Lane Control Signs
Center and Reversible Lane Control Signs
Examples of Preferential Only Lane Signs
OVERHEAD PREFERENTIAL ONLY LANE SIGNS
Examples of Preferential Only Lane Signs
GROUND-MOUNTED PREFERENTIAL ONLY LANE SIGNS
Traffic Prohibition Signs
No Parking Signs
No Parking Signs
Traffic Signal Signs
Traffic Signal Signs
Truck Signs |
Warning signs call attention to unexpected
conditions on or adjacent to a highway or street
and to situations that might not be readily
apparent to road users. Warning signs alert road
users to conditions that might call for a
reduction of speed or an action in the interest
of safety and efficient traffic operations.
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Horizontal Alignment Signs
Vertical Grade Signs
Advisory Speed and Speed Reduction Signs
Intersection Warning Signs
Nonvehicular Traffic Signs |
Miscellaneous Warning Signs
Roadway Condition and Advance Traffic Control Signs
Merging and Passing Signs
Vehicular Traffic Signs
Supplemental Warning Plaques |
Guide
signs are essential to direct road users along
streets and highways, to inform them of
intersecting routes, to direct them to cities,
towns, villages, or other important
destinations, to identify nearby rivers and
streams, parks, forests, and historical sites,
and generally to give such information as will
help them along their way in the most simple,
direct manner possible.
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Examples of Color-Coded Destination Guide Signs
Route Sign Auxiliaries
Destination and Distance Signs
General Service Signs
Reference Location Signs |
Route Signs
Directional Arrow Auxiliary Signs
Street Name and Parking Signs
Rest Area and Scenic Overlook Signs
General Information Signs
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The
development of a signing system for freeways and
expressways was created on the premise that the
signing is primarily for the benefit and
direction of road users who are not familiar
with the route or area. The signing furnishes
road users with clear instructions to their
destinations. Sign installations are an integral
part of the highway system and, as such, are
best planned with the development of highway
design. For optimal results, plans for signing
are analyzed during the earliest stages of
preliminary design, and details are correlated
as final design is developed. The excessive
signing found on many major highways usually is
the result of using a multitude of signs that
are too small and that are poorly designed and
placed to accomplish the intended purpose.
Freeway and expressway signing is to be
considered and developed as a planned system of
installations. An engineering study is sometimes
necessary for proper solution of the problems of
many individual locations, but, in addition,
consideration of an entire route is necessary.
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Diagrammatic Sign for a Single-Lane Left Exit
Examples of Interchange Advance Guide Signs
Enhanced Reference Location Signs |
EXIT ONLY Panels
Interstate and U.S. Route Signs
Exit Gore Signs
Examples of Rest Area, Scenic Overlook, and Welcome
Center Signs |
Specific Service signs are defined as guide
signs that provide road users with business
identification and directional information for
services and for eligible attractions. The
use of Specific Service signs should be limited
to areas primarily rural in character or to
areas where adequate sign spacing can be
maintained. Where an engineering study
determines a need, Specific Service signs may be
used on any class of highways. Specific
Service signs should not be installed at an
interchange where the road user cannot
conveniently reenter the freeway or expressway
and continue in the same direction of travel.
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Examples of Specific Service Signs |
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Recreational or cultural interest areas are
attractions or traffic generators that are open
to the general public for the purpose of play,
amusement, or relaxation. Recreational
attractions include such facilities as parks,
campgrounds, gaming facilities, and ski areas,
while examples of cultural attractions include
museums, art galleries, and historical buildings
or sites. The purpose of recreation and
cultural interest area signs is to guide road
users to a general area and then to specific
facilities or activities within the area.
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Examples of Use of Educational Plaques,
Prohibitory Slashes, and Arrows
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Examples of General Directional Guide Signs
for Conventional Roads
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Emergency Management signs shall be used to
guide and control highway traffic during an
emergency. Contingency planning for an
emergency evacuation should be considered by all
State and local jurisdictions and should
consider the use of all applicable roadways.
In the event of a disaster where highways that
cannot be used will be closed, a successful
contingency plan should account for the
following elements: a controlled operation of
certain designated highways, the establishment
of traffic operations for the expediting of
essential traffic, and the provision of
emergency centers for civilian aid.
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Object
markers are used to mark obstructions within or
adjacent to the roadway.
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Object Markers and End-of-Roadway Markers |
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At
some locations on low-volume roads, the use of
traffic control devices might be needed to
provide the road user limited, but essential,
information regarding regulation, guidance, and
warning. Low-volume roads typically
include farm-to-market, recreational, resource
management and development,
and local roads. The needs of unfamiliar
road users for occasional, recreational, and
commercial transportation purposes should be
considered.
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Regulatory Signs on Low-Volume Roads
Other Warning Signs on Low-Volume Roads
Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Signs for Low-Volume
Roads |
Parking Signs on Low-Volume Roads
Horizontal Alignment and Intersection Warning Signs
on Low-Volume Roads
Temporary Traffic Control Signs on Low-Volume Roads |
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