Abstract:Although not commonly admitted, the early development of road signs was but a pragmatic response to a context with few alternative options on the short and medium term: to inform about road dangers while hardly trying to eliminate them. Cultural solutions, otherwise disregarded, reveal themselves as basic tools on the most critical contexts of road traffic. Such effort, with specific features in Europe, gave way to the road signs international catalogue: the 1968 Vienna Convention, the main traits of road sign… Show more
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