Guidance

Know your traffic signs

Road traffic signage in Great Britain, including information on the signing system, regulatory signs, speed limit signs and all other signs.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Know your traffic signs

Details

This guidance aims to illustrate and explain the most common traffic signs that the road user is likely to encounter. It is an accompaniment to The Highway Code.

The 2023 edition contains:

  • new guidance and images on clean air zones, ultra low emission zone and low emission zones in London, tunnel restriction codes, parking places for electric taxis, bus gates, share space, parallel crossings
  • updated guidance and signs for road charging, rising bollards, bus lanes, on-street parking places, pedestrian and cycle zones, motorway signals, variable signs,  motorway service areas, diversion routes, UTC (urgent treatment centre), traffic signals for cyclists, road works and temporary situations, bridge height warning signs
  • new guidance specific for Wales and for Scotland

You can also order a copy of the Know Your Traffic Signs book online or buy a copy from most high street bookshops.

Published 1 September 2010
Last updated 5 December 2023 + show all updates
  1. Corrected image errors on page 53 and 136.

  2. Updated 'Know your traffic signs' guidance published.

  3. Seventeenth impression.

  4. First published.

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