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The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals divides the direction, position, or indication sign category into direction signs, which are only those giving distances or directions to a given location; road identification signs (also known as "reassurance signs"), which repeat the name or number of the road, and place identification signs ...
5.6 M6 Series: Directional Arrow Auxiliary Signs. 5.7 M10 Series: Scenic Area. 5.8 M11 Series: ... Byway identification (plaque) M10-3 State scenic byway system. M10-3a
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 .
Guide signs inform travelers which way to go at intersections, usually with an arrow pointing the way. These include: Directional assemblies, which combine highway shields with separate cardinal direction signs and arrow signs on the same post, and; Direction, position, or indication signs, which include highway shields as part of the sign legend.
Reassurance markers on New Brunswick's provincial highways feature bilingual (English/French) direction tabs. Reassurance shields on a freeway in Mississippi. In the United States and Canada, reassurance markers (also called reassurance shields or confirming shields) usually take the form of a shield displaying the road number on an elevated pole, with a plate above or below it indicating the ...
A driver location sign marking location 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) on the "B carriageway" (westbound) of the M27. Driver location signs are signs placed every 500 metres (550 yd) along each side of English motorways, and some other major English roads, to provide information that will allow motorists to know their precise location.
However, direction signs in the Asian part of Russia omit European route numbers (which are used in the European part), replaced by Asian route numbers, which are dark blue in background with white lettering, with a few exceptions. The same also apples to road signs used in Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan ...
A signboard in Kerala A sign in Bengaluru Gurgaon Expressway Sion Panvel Highway Traffic sign in Kannur Road sign at a village in West Bengal Road sign on NH11 near Ajmer, Rajasthan. This is an example of a Gantry-mounted advance direction ahead of an at-grade junction. Road signs in India can vary in design, depending on the location.