Guiding Principles for Developing Digital and Projected Advertising Display Regulations

Digital and projected advertising displays (DPADs) are a rapidly emerging form of roadside advertising. The brightness of DPADs and their ability to distract drivers by displaying dynamic content are causing concern about their road safety impacts. Most jurisdictions have sign by-laws designed to control the time, place, and manner of static advertising signs. However, many jurisdictions have not updated their by-laws to address the unique characteristics of DPADs. Advertising is a form of expression which is considered a fundamental freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Advertising is also a type of roadside information that is not essential for the driving task and by its nature increases the risk of collision by distracting drivers. Jurisdictions must balance the right to advertise with the potential road safety risks of these advertisements. Therefore, the objective of DPAD regulations is to control the negative road safety effects of DPADs. This paper presents five principles to guide professionals during the development of DPAD regulations from a road safety perspective as part of a larger study to develop national guidelines for the application and use of digital advertising signs. These principles are safety, consistency, specificity, evidence-based, and pragmatism. These principles help ensure that regulations hold public safety as the primary concern, result in DPADs operating in a manner that emulates static advertising signs, pertain only to issues unique to DPADs and not to issues that are common to all advertising signs, are evidence-based, scientifically supported, and sensitive to local conditions, and are pragmatic and enforceable.

• Record URL:
  http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2014/s-24/rempel.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

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• Authors:
  • Rempel, G
  • Montufar, J
  • Dewar, R
  • Forbes, G
• Conference:
  • Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future - 2014 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // Transport 2014 : Du passé vers l'avenir - 2014 Congrès et Exposition de 'Association des transports du Canada
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1 PDF file, 128 KB, 9p.
• Monograph Title: Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future - 2014 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // Transport 2014 : Du passé vers l'avenir - 2014 Congrès et Exposition de 'Association des transports du Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Conferences; Design; Digital computers; Distraction; Dynamics; Legislation; Methodology; Publicity; Roadside; Safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Visual intrusions
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 8673: Digital computer; 2237: Distraction; 5473: Dynamics; 1556: Legislation; 9102: Method; 8573: Publicity; 2821: Roadside; 1665: Safety; 2481: Visual intrusion
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01553280
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Feb 13 2015 4:23PM