‘Street Signs’ Articles at Visigraph https://www.visigraph.com Signs, Banners, Decals and Displays Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:44:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Regulations in Making and Installing Traffic Signs https://www.visigraph.com/guide/regulations-in-making-and-installing-traffic-signs/ https://www.visigraph.com/guide/regulations-in-making-and-installing-traffic-signs/#respond Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:15:29 +0000 http://www.visigraph.com/?p=7932 This is an online guide to making and installing traffic signs within the standards of the USDOT.

In any state in the United States, you can’t install traffic signs without some sort of governmental permission, typically a local, state, or federal DOT. It’s the same with most other countries run by a government. There are standards one must follow to be able to install highway and street signs, from the design, materials, and location of these signs.

Custom signs displayed along streets, roads or highways must adhere to the standards set by the department of transportation.

Keep Reading →]]> https://www.visigraph.com/guide/regulations-in-making-and-installing-traffic-signs/feed/ 0 Traffic Street Signs – USDOT Categories and Regulations https://www.visigraph.com/signs/traffic-street-signs/ https://www.visigraph.com/signs/traffic-street-signs/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:49:37 +0000 http://www.visigraph.com/?p=1186 Traffic street signs include a huge variety of road markers in the US, and even more in the rest of the world. They are regulated in every country in the world by their governments, and here in the US, the USDOT oversees every state’s DOT regarding traffic street signs.

The US Government’s specific regulator, the United States Department of Transportation, or the USDOT, has a manual, called the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or the MUTCD, which assigns letter and number codes to the various types we drive by on a daily basis.

Specified Traffic Street Signs and the Regulation of Traffic Regulation Signs

One of the most common categories are the regulatory signs.

Keep Reading →]]> https://www.visigraph.com/signs/traffic-street-signs/feed/ 0