Trail blazing New draft Standard for road signs

摘要

It's impossible to tell people how to get from everywhere to everywhere else by fixed signposting. Those responsible for road signs and numbering systems have to be selective in the directions given, ensuring their selections will serve the greatest number of people, are clearly displayed and have a message length than can be easily read in the time available. On the road system there is a further obligation to help people navigate their way to their chosen destination. These concurrent requirements are met by a number of means including having consistent destination naming along a route, displaying the names on signs of adequate size and with recognisable graphic design characteristics, displaying signs in prominent positions where they can best be read under the prevailing conditions and, finally, by'blazing trails'using systems of numbered routes between major centres. Standards Australia's recently released draft for comment, DR 05130, Manual of uniform traffic control devices, Part 15, Direction signs, information signs and route numbering, offers a means of uniformly applying these needs to roads throughout Australia.