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Purpose of highway sign system

The purpose of the highway system is to provide safe comfortable convenient transportation for people and goods. Traffic control devices and signs are an integral part of this system and provide the medium for the
road authority to communicate vital information to the motorist along the
highway. This is accomplished through the use of regulatory and warning signs, including signs outlining speed limits and other regulations pertaining to the safe operation of the vehicle. Of equal importance are the guide signs that direct motorists to their destinations and signs that provide information on the

Positive Guidance of highway information sign

Consistency in design is good practice, as it assists a driver to respond to conditions, situations, events and information in a consistent manner. It is therefore important that, whenever possible, signs are kept identical, or at least very similar, on travel routes throughout North America, within Canada and each province. Information should be presented clearly so that a driver can:
• Detect a sign in an environment that may be cluttered.
• Recognize the sign information.
• Decide upon an appropriate response
• Complete the maneuver safely.

There are four principles of positive guidance: Primacy – information should be placed in order of importance to the driver. The most important information should not necessarily be placed first. Temporary conditions, regulatory and warning signs must take precedence over guide and information signs, as driver safety is more important than navigational needs. The most critical signs should first be placed in their optimal locations, and others are fit in after in order of priority (i.e., Tourism signs relating to a freeway section typically appear first to the driver, upstream of exit direction signs).

placed at less optimum positions or eliminated altogether due to limited space for signs along the road. A hierarchy of the order that guide signs shall be displayed from most critical to least critical is identified as: a) Directional Guide Signs (either on freeway or highway) b) Emergency Services Signs (directions to Hospital/Police) c) Transportation Service Signs (directions to Airports, Bus Depots, Rail Stations) d) Motorist Services Signs e) Attractions and Points of Interest Signs f) Miscellaneous Information Signs. Spreading – when information cannot be placed on one sign or at one location, it should be spread out to reduce the opportunity for the driver to become overloaded. Coding – colour and shape coding of traffic signs allow representation of different types of information that are clear to the driver. An example is using a blue background to

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