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Recolored to use USDOT/FHWA blue and use a more accurate drawing of the USDOT Triskelion logo: 23:13, 19 August 2011: 261 × 46 (2 KB) Imzadi1979: that is the USDOT logo, which is separate from FHWA's logo: 11:40, 19 August 2011: 573 × 579 (2 KB) Liandrei: Updated to new logo: 00:36, 19 August 2011: 261 × 46 (2 KB) File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs, the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program .
The Standard Alphabets For Traffic Control Devices, (also known as the FHWA Series fonts and unofficially as Highway Gothic), is a sans-serif typeface developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The font is used for road signage in the United States and many other countries worldwide. The typefaces were developed to ...
A highway sign using Clearview in Farmington Hills, Michigan, near the terminus of westbound I-696 (2005). The standard FHWA typefaces, developed in the 1940s, were designed to work with a system of highway signs in which almost all words are capitalized; its standard mixed-case form (Series E Modified) was designed to be most visible under the now-obsolete reflector system of button copy ...
With traffic volumes increasing since the 1930s, many countries have adopted pictorial signs or otherwise simplified and standardized their signs to overcome language barriers, and enhance traffic safety. Such pictorial signs use symbols (often silhouettes) in place of words and are usually based on international protocols.
The seal of the U.S. Department of Transportation before 1980 The flag of the U.S. Department of Transportation before 1980. The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.
Indonesia formerly used FHWA Series fonts (Highway Gothic) as the designated typeface though the rules are not being implemented properly. Indonesian road signs use Indonesian, the official and the national language of Indonesia. However, English is also used for important public places such as tourist attractions and airports.
The logo of the LTPP. Long-Term Pavement Performance Program, known as LTPP, is a research project supported by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to collect and analyze pavement data in the United States and Canada. Currently, the LTPP acquires the largest road performance database. [1] [2]