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IHIE Sign Structures Guide (June 2008)

Fully revised for new EU/BS standards.

Download or send an A4 s.a.e with stamps worth £1.50.

Government Policy

• Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions
• Traffic Signs Manual
• Know your Road Signs
• General DfT Guidance
• Chapter 3 released 10 September 2008

General Guidance

Principles of road signing in rural areas

Check out CPRE's 'principles for road signage in rural areas'.

Click here for more information

Rural Roads at Risk

See downloads on right hand side for a research report with a significant section on signing in the Lake District.

Including Landscape in Road Design (CA217)

A discussion note based on three casestudies of mitigation.

Assessing the effect of road schemes on historic landscapes

Part of DMRB Volume II. Please click here to find out more

CPRE/RAC Foundation decluttering campaign

Road Furniture in the Countryside (July 2006).

Transport Scotland guidance on reducing the usual impact of signs etc.

Reclaiming our Rural Highways

Available on CD from www.dorsetaonb.org.uk/.

Other Resources

Traffic Signs Regulations Software

(TSR) is a brand new search utility for road signs and markings. TSR includes all Primary Statutory Instruments No. 3113 Traffic Signals Regulations and General Directions (TSRGD) 2002.

Buchanan Computing traffic signing systems,
including SignLoad, companion software to the IHIE Sign Structures Guide.

Chapter 8 Software

Fun Signs

• www.signspotting.com for 4 sign photos per month and Sign of the Year.
• www.lonelyplanet.com for sign spotting book.
• Hemel Hempstead's magic roundabout(Hemel_Hempstead)

Parking: Minimising signs and lines

Implementing restricted zones in

• Glasgow (A paper by Tony Hughes - 2006)
• Bury St Edmunds (An extract from Manual for Historic Streets from EHTF)