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The official typeface for road signs in India is Transport. [2] Though sometimes, road signs may use hand-painted fonts, but some road signs in India also unofficially use Arial or Highway Gothic. Most urban roads and state highways have signs in the state language and English. National highways have signs in the state language, Hindi and English.
A partial detour in the United States, with the road restricted to local traffic only. A detour or (British English: diversion) is a (normally temporary) route taking traffic around an area of prohibited or reduced access, such as a construction site. Standard operating procedure for many roads departments is to route any detour over roads ...
Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones . Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony .
A study in Accident Analysis & Prevention found that if a driver traveling 24.1 mph strikes a pedestrian, the average risk that the pedestrian will die is 10%; by 32.5 mph, the risk of death jumps ...
Flagger ahead (text sign) CW20-8 Slow (stop/slow paddle) R1-1 ... Bicycle and Pedestrian Detour Right Arrow. M4-9aL Bicycle and Pedestrian Detour Left Arrow. M4-9bR
Regulatory road signs are generally circular, and most warning signs take the form of a triangle. Since 2012, however, a more visibly distinctive design (taken from that used for school signs in the US) has been adopted for pedestrian-related signs: these consist of a fluorescent yellow-green pentagon with black border and symbol.
It focuses mainly on research for safe and efficient traffic flow, such as road geometry, sidewalks and crosswalks, cycling infrastructure, traffic signs, road surface markings and traffic lights. Traffic engineering deals with the functional part of transportation system, except the infrastructures provided.
Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign: −: Minus sign: Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus: ×: Multiplication sign: X mark # Number sign: Numero sign. Also known as "octothorpe", "hash" and "hashtag sign" Pound sign № Numero sign: Number sign: Obelus: Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index ( ) Parenthesis: Bracket, Angle bracket ...