Standardized road signs
Señales de tráfico normalizadas
- Date
- 1908–1909 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- International Road Traffic Convention of Paris (1909); Touring Club; Geneva Convention (1931); stop sign (Detroit, 1915)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Set of standardised pictograms (bend, crossing, bump, level crossing) internationally agreed for the automobile. First global visual language.
What it led to
- Highway code and driving licence
- Universal pictograms and information design
- International motor tourism
Built on
- Gasoline automobile1886
- Boundary stones and signposts
Made possible
- Motorway signage
- Olympic pictograms
- Vienna Convention (1968)