Open Directory - Recreation: Roads and Highways: Signs and Signals
See also: This category in other languages: - The standard for signs, signals, and pavement markings in the United States. Includes HTML and .pdf versions. - Part of the Center for Economic and Environmental Development at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. Page shows recent projects including two involving the sculpting of road signs into art ("Read Between the Signs" and "Signs and Flowers"). - Examples of child crossing, construction, and falling rock signs worldwide. - Illustrations and detailed commentary. - Photograph collection of warning signs. - Research project studying controls for this movement, addressing such principles as the "left-turn trap". Includes animated graphic examples. - Large collection of French road signs. - Chronicles the history and evolution of signs in the United Kingdom. - Many standard and unusual examples. - Contains hundreds of images from around the world. - Covers all 2-digit and major 3-digit U.S. Interstates and gives some explanation as to their selection. Transcription of an AASHTO document. - Most Italian road signs. - Three pages of Japanese signs with English descriptions. - Signs in the midwest and southern US. - Contains scans or links to scans of each edition of the U.S. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Also includes related articles. - A listing of those most commonly used in the United States. - Dozens of variations on the "Men at Work" theme. - Unofficial traffic signal simulator available for download. Uses Java. - Photos of approach, advance direction, exit, reassurance, and overhead signs on motorways in various countries. - Photograph inventory of a large personal collection. - U.S. organization which helps develop standards which are often applied to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. History, member information, and meeting information. - Photos of signs from the early 20th century. - Focuses on unusual and standard examples in the Sacramento, California, area. Also includes some state welcome signs. - Includes a list of all cities that use ramp metering systems. - Includes a graphics gallery of U.S. state route markers as displayed on guide signs, and personal marker cosmetic change proposals. - Various graphic files of U.S. examples, some fictional. - Website that accepts submissions of photographs of sign assemblies whose numbers can be arranged to form a mathematical operation. - Illustrations from 1961 from Scandinavia. [PDF] - North Korean road signs. - Hundreds of funny road signs by category - Basic European signage. - Tourist attraction composed of donated road signs. Site includes visiting information. - Java applet letting users create highway sign graphics. - Photos of an collection of signals and signs, many vintage, plus a gallery of photos covering many geographic areas. - Includes photo collection of examples in Australia. - Includes information and photographs about traffic cones and other related subjects. - What highway signs could look like. - Official document of the United Kingdom. Includes illustrations and usage of signs and signals. - Illustrates a private collection of signals, including pedestrian. - The standard for signs, signals, and pavement markings in the United Kingdom. Includes graphics. - A private citizen's proposals for new and altered signalization. - Images of most Lebanese signs. - A few good pictures of Korean signs and signals. - Gives the background on this feature in the Yukon Territory of Canada consisting of thousands of donated road signs. - Photograph collection. Also covers the Central and Capital/Adirondack regions of the state.
