This document summarizes different types of informative signs, regulatory signs, and warning signs used for traffic management. Informative signs provide information to guide motorists along routes and destinations. Regulatory signs instruct road users on traffic laws and regulations. Warning signs indicate hazards ahead and usually have a triangular shape with a yellow background. The document discusses the purpose and examples of each sign type and how sign designs and materials have evolved with new technologies while still employing traditional methods of crafting signs by hand or with woodworking machinery.

1. INFORMATIVE
SIGN
A very legibly printed and very
noticeable placard that informs people of the purpose of an object,
or gives them instruction on the use of something.
Information signs have been growing in visibility due to the
explosion of sign technologies. For hundreds, if not thousands, of
years signs were crafted out of wood. Words and images were
then hand-painted on the sign. The other traditional way of
creating signs dealt with individual constructed letters carved
from wood, molded or wrought from metal, which were then
individually placed in the appropriate sequence.
While both of these methods are still employed, technology
has moved in around them. Woodworking machinery can now be
controlled by computers, leading to much greater consistency.
Molded signage has changed dramatically with the advent
of plastics, which are far more flexible than metal as well as
significantly cheaper to produce. Additionally, altogether new
sign technologies have come into being, such as computer-
cut vinyl signage.
Also known as “guide signs”, or “informative signs.”
Rectangular in shape white-colored on blue background is used
for informative signs. Green background is usually used for route
markers and destination signs. It is intended to: a) guide
motorist along established rotes, b) inform the motorists of the

2. proper roads, and c) help motorists along the way in the most
simple and direct method.
REGULATORY
SIGNS
Traffic signs intended to instruct road users on what they
must or should do (or not do) under a given set of circumstances.
Other types may be signs located on streets and in parking lots
having to do with parking, signs in public parks and on beaches
or on or in architectural facilities prohibiting specific types of
activities. The term regulatory sign describes a range of signs
that are used to indicate or reinforce traffic laws, regulations or
requirements which apply either at all times or at specified times
or places upon astreet or highway, the disregard of which may
constitute a violation, or signs in general that regulate public
behavior in places open to the public.
Examples of non-traffic types of regulatory signs might be
tow-away signs for vehicles without disabled parking stickers or
no-smoking signs where there are laws prohibiting smoking.
These are signs which impose legal restrictions applicable
location usually enforceable in the absence of such signs. These
are intended to: a) inform road users of certain laws and
regulations, and b) special obligations, instructions, or
prohibitions which they must comply with and violations of which
constitute misdemeanor.

3. DANGER WARNING
SIGNS
A traffic warning sign is a type of traffic sign that
indicates a hazard ahead on the road that may not be readily
apparent to a driver.
In most countries, they usually take the shape of an equilateral
triangle with a white background and a thick red border. However,
both the color of the background and the color and thickness of the
border varies from country to country.
Warning signs in some countries have a diamond shape in place
of the standard triangular shape. In the United
States, Canada, Mexico,Thailand, Australia, Japan, Philippines
, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, most of South America,
and also Ireland (diverging from the standards of the rest of
Europe) use warning signs are black on a yellow background and
usually diamond-shaped, while temporary signs (which are typically
construction signs) are black on an orange background. Some other
countries also use these standards for some signage.
The warning signs usually contain a symbol. In Europe they
are based on the UNECE Vienna Convention on Road Signs and
Signals. In United States they are based on their own standard
and often contain text only.

4. Also known as “caution signs.” These are signs have an
equilateral triangular shape with one side horizontal and having red
borders. These are signs intended to: a) warn motorist of
approaching hazardous road conditions, b) seek caution for the
approaching road hazards, and c) call the reduction of speed.
PROJECT
In
CDI-2
(Traffic Management and
Traffic Investigation)

5. Submitted by:
Ressel A. Nalogon
Submitted to:
Ms. Karen Kenneth Bonotan
CDI-2, Instructor