• ♦Manual Notice 2008-1
• ►1. Introduction
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Chapter Overview
  • ►2. Handbook Information
    • ♦Purpose of Handbook
    • ♦Status of Handbook
    • ♦Application of Handbook Guidelines
    • ♦Handbook Content
  • ►3. Relation to Other Documents
    • ♦References to Other Documents
    • ♦Other TxDOT Documents
    • ♦Other Non-TxDOT Documents
• ►2. Principles of Freeway Signing
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Introduction
  • ►2. Freeway Signing Basics
    • ♦Freeway Characteristics
    • ♦Philosophy of Freeway Guide Signs
    • ♦Information Provided by Freeway Signing
    • ♦Information Processing
    • ♦Attention and Expectation
    • ♦Limitations on Quantity of Information
    • ♦Driver Information Overload
  • ►3. Freeway Signing Terminology
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Texas MUTCD Interchange Classification Scheme
    • ♦Freeway Signing Handbook Interchange Classification Scheme
  • ►4. Freeway Sign Design Process
    • ♦Design of Freeway Guide Signs
  • ►5. Freeway Signing Policies
    • ♦Retroreflective Sheeting for Freeway Signs
    • ♦Freeway Sign Illumination
    • ♦Vertical Sign Clearance
    • ♦Control Cities
    • ♦Sign Support Structures
• ►3. Application of Freeway Signs
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Introduction
  • ►2. Freeway Direction Signs (White on Green)
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Overhead Sign Placement
    • ♦Advance Guide Signs
    • ♦Exit Direction Signs
    • ♦Exit Number Panels
    • ♦Diagrammatic Signs
    • ♦Interchange Sequence Signs
    • ♦ Pull-Through Signs
    • ♦Exit Gore Signs
    • ♦Supplemental Guide Signs
    • ♦Distance Signs
  • ►3. General Service Signs (White on Blue)
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Types of Facilities
    • ♦Rest Area Signs
    • ♦Tourist Information and Welcome Center Signs
    • ♦Radio-Traffic Information Signs
    • ♦Specific Information Logo Signs
  • ►4. Recreational and Cultural Interest Area Signs (White on Brown)
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Design and Application
  • ►5. Miscellaneous Guide Signs (White on Green)
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Next X Exits Signs
    • ♦Next Exit Supplemental Signs
    • ♦Weigh Station Signs
    • ♦Guide Sign Routing Plaques
• ►4. Freeway Guide Sign Design
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ►2. Guide Sign Elements
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Abbreviations
    • ♦Route Signs
    • ♦Arrows
    • ♦Advisory Sign Panels
  • ►3. Guide Sign Lettering
    • ♦Letter Style
    • ♦Letter Size
    • ♦Letter Spacing
  • ►4. Guide Sign Layout
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Border Design
    • ♦Lateral Spacing
    • ♦Interline Spacing
    • ♦Word Message Placement
    • ♦Route Sign and Cardinal Direction Placement
    • ♦Arrow Placement
    • ♦Spacing to Border Edge
    • ♦Horizontal and Vertical Separator Lines
    • ♦Final Length and Height Adjustment
  • ►5. Diagrammatic Signs
    • ♦Diagrammatic Sign Design
• ►5. Freeway Guide Signing
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ►2. Roadway Interchange Signing
    • ♦Right-Lane Exits
    • ♦Left-Lane Exits
  • ►3. Lane Geometry and Arrow Orientation
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Route Arrangement and Lane Geometry
    • ♦Arrow Orientation
    • ♦Pull-Through Signs
    • ♦Arrow Placement for Route Continuing to the Left
    • ♦Arrow Placement for Route Continuing to the Right
    • ♦Arrow Placement for Route Ending
  • ►4. Freeway-to-Freeway Interchange Signing
    • ♦Single Exit Directional Interchange
    • ♦Two Exit Directional Interchange
    • ♦Three-Leg Directional Interchange
    • ♦Cloverleaf Interchange Designs
  • ►5. Signing for Closely Spaced Interchanges
    • ♦Interchange Sequence Signing
    • ♦Signing Between Closely Spaced Entrance and Exit Ramps
  • ►6. Other Situations
    • ♦Freeway Ends
    • ♦Lane Ends
• ►6. Frontage Road Signing
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ►2. Entrance Ramp Signing
    • ♦Introduction
  • ►3. Exit Ramp Signing
    • ♦Introduction
  • ►4. Frontage Road Approach Signing
    • ♦Introduction
  • ►5. Cross-Street Route Signing
    • ♦Introduction
• ►A. Overhead Sign Lighting

Freeway Signing Handbook

October 2008

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