Know the Meaning and Function of Traffic Signage

Guidance signs are a part of traffic signs that serve as guides and provide information for road users.

These signs are most commonly found on roads and usually provide information about directions or destinations, boundary limits, and public facilities such as terminals and others.

The characteristic of guidance signs is usually a large board with a green background, bordered, with symbols, letters, or numbers in white. Some guidance signs use a blue background to provide information in the form of symbols for public facilities such as mosques, city names, hospitals, terminals, and stopping places. These guidance signs use numbers, borders, symbols, and letters that remain white.

Specifically, brown guidance signs are used to indicate directions to tourist areas.

Types of Guidance Signs

Based on their types, traffic guidance signs are divided into 9, ranging from road guidance signs to route numbers. Here is a detailed explanation.

1. Preliminary Direction Guidance Signs

This guidance sign consists of various types of information depicted on a green board, complete with city names and directional symbols. For example, preliminary direction guidance at intersections, intended destinations, lane indicators, recommended lanes, and distance information to locations.

2. Direction Guidance Signs

This sign provides information about the direction to a specific location or area, as well as tourist areas. This sign is in the form of a green board with a specific angle or direction. For example, a sign indicating "Soekarno Hatta International Airport, 25 km" with a right turn direction board.

Then there are direction signs for tourist locations with a brown background and white letters or accompanied by symbols. For example, there is a beach symbol followed by information about the tourist spot "Kuta Beach" with a board directing to the right lane.

3. Boundary Guidance Signs

This type of guidance sign serves as a marker that indicates when a driver enters or exits a certain area, usually in the form of a blue board with a symbol or a crossed-out symbol. For example, information about entering a toll road will have a blue board with a toll road symbol, and similarly, when approaching the exit of a toll road, the sign will be a toll road symbol crossed with a red diagonal line.

4. Toll Road Boundary Guidance Signs

The information displayed on this type of sign includes indications of the starting point, ending point, entering the inner circle, and the end of the toll road.

5. Public Facility Guidance Signs

Some markers indicating the presence of public facilities can be seen through this guidance sign. Usually in the form of a blue board with specific symbols, such as transportation facilities at ports, stations, airports, places of worship, and disaster response signs like evacuation routes.

6. Traffic Regulation Guidance Signs

This sign provides information about traffic regulations in the form of one-way system indicators, U-turn locations, dead-end information, and initial and final vehicle guidance. This sign is marked with a directional symbol board with a blue background.

7. Street Name Signs

Street name signs are also included in guidance signs. Usually in the form of a rectangular board with a green background that includes the street name information. For example, "Jl. Jend. A. Yani".

8. Word Guidance Signs

Some guidance signs also provide information about certain areas with a blue background and white writing. For example, "Traffic Order Area".

9. Route Number Signs

Route number guidance signs are usually found at the city, district, provincial levels, national road routes, and Asian Highway routes. The information is in the form of a hexagonal board with specific numbers.

Thus is the review regarding traffic signs. As drivers, friends must understand the meaning of each symbol and its information, hopefully useful and not getting lost, right!

Author: Dinno Baskoro

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