COMMUNICATING WITH THE MOTORIST BY SIGNING AT JUNCTIONS

This paper which reviews the objectives and problems of signing at junctions, the means for encouraging motorists to obey such signs, and the possible future developments within the field of electronic control, covers direction signing, regulatory signing and advisory signing. Changing signs on motorways and variable signs on general purpose roads are reviewed. Electronic information devices described here include the Road Information Transmitted Aurally (RITA), Advance Warning Equipment (AWARE) and the Electronic Route Guidance System. The environmental impact of signs is discussed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at Seminar W (Road Design 2: Specialist Topics) of the PTRC Summer Annual Meeting, Warwick University, England, 8-12 July 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd

  167 Oxford Street
  London W1R 1AH,   England 
• Authors:
  • Huddart, K W
• Publication Date: 1974-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 219-227
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Comision Permanente del Asfalto
  • Publisher: Comision Permanente del Asfalto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication systems; Direction signs; Electronic control; Environmental impacts; Highways; Intersections; Regulatory signs; Signalized intersections; Signs; Variable message signs
• Old TRIS Terms: Directional sign
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096302
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: PRTC/P/109
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 10 1975 12:00AM