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  2. U.S. Route shield - Wikipedia

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    Example of an original U.S. Route shield, with the state name of "Michigan" and route number of "27" displayed in the original block font. The original design of the shield was presented in the January 1927 edition of the Manual and Specifications for the Manufacture, Display, and Erection of U.S. Standard Road Markers and Signs, the precursor to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices ...

  3. Route shield pavement marking - Wikipedia

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    Route shield pavement markings for Interstate Highways 30 and 35E at the Dallas Horseshoe. A route shield pavement marking (also called an advance pavement marking [1] or pavement marking shield [2]) is a road surface marking that depicts a route shield and functions as either a road traffic safety measure or a mitigation against street sign theft.

  4. Highway shield - Wikipedia

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    A highway shield or route marker is a sign denoting the route number of a highway, usually in the form of a symbolic shape with the route number enclosed. As the focus of the sign, the route number is usually the sign's largest element, with other items on the sign rendered in smaller sizes or contrasting colors.

  5. Numbered highways in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Indian route: Highways found in several Indian reservations. U.S. Bicycle Route: Part of the national cycling route network in the U.S., consisting of interstate long-distance cycling routes that use multiple types of bicycling infrastructure, including off-road paths, bicycle lanes, and low-traffic roads.

  6. United States Numbered Highway System - Wikipedia

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    Within the route log, "U.S. Route" is used in the table of contents, while "United States Highway" appears as the heading for each route. All reports of the Special Committee on Route Numbering since 1989 use "U.S. Route", and federal laws relating to highways use "United States Route" or "U.S. Route" more often than the "Highway" variants.

  7. Reassurance marker - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Route number - Wikipedia

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    A route (or road) number, designation or abbreviation is an identifying numeric (or alphanumeric) designation assigned by a highway authority to a particular stretch of roadway to distinguish it from other routes and, in many cases, also to indicate its classification (e.g. motorway, primary route, regional road, etc.), general geographical location (in zonal numbering systems) and/or ...

  9. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Route marker. See highway shield. Route number, road number, or route identifier A combination of letters and/or numbers that serve to identify a particular road. Route numbers may be assigned randomly or as part of a regional numbering scheme. Rumble strips, sleeper lines, rumple strips, audible lines, the corduroy, or growlers