Development of Highway Signage - From Freeways to Electronic Signage Advertisements

Indicators are every where. From those that give us orders, to those that there to warn us of danger we should experience hundreds of signs each day as we travel across the country's road networks.Billboards, hoardings and also outdoor digital signs and signage are now a normal feature along roadsides but road signs have experienced a unique history and the ones we see on our motorways and trunk roads weren't usually that way.Before the 1960's there was no particular structure for road signs. Speed limit indications and direction signs can, and quite often were, different on one stretch of road to another, as were the relaxation of the signage along our highways.However, once the fist motorways opened it was soon realised that a typical format for road signs was expected and the design and font system (Transport font) that are so common to us today were created to generate unity with the different signs up and down the country.Now uniformity in our signage system is predominant but our roadsides are now awash with even more techniques of signage and passing of information.Outdoor digital signage is one of the latest developments in the signage business. These roadside hoardings and signs that are now starting to sprout at bus stops and along curb sides are predicated on the same technology that our TV's at property operate in.Many of these outside digital signage systems are protected by waterproof LCD enclosures to ensure the delicate technology inside the unit do not get damaged in the elements.And now, thanks to this burgeoning technology, the roadsides of our motorways are starting to change - just like they did when the first motorways induced the changing of the signage - taking our streets right into the twenty first century.