Signposts for tourist attractions and urban roads in France

(4) Service facilities advance notice sign

European countries attach great importance to the construction of highway supporting service facilities, and do everything possible to provide good services for drivers and passengers travelling long distances and at high speeds, so as to ensure the safety, speed, comfort and benefits of the highway. In France, the distance between parking areas is about 25~30km, the distance between refuelling facilities is about 40~50km, and the distance between large-scale service areas is about 100km. in order to make full use of these service facilities, the service facilities on the motorway are equipped with advance notice signs, which can be used to give notice of the location of the service facilities, the distance, and the main service contents. Service facility advance notice signs are white characters on a blue background, with corresponding pattern information. Among them, the petrol facility advance notice sign is the most special, which is a kind of traffic sign reflecting both service and competition, displaying the trademarks of four petrol suppliers and the distance to these petrol filling stations at the same time, and dynamically displaying the fuel prices of different suppliers, arranged from near to far and from top to bottom.

(5) Tourist attraction preview signs

France is a very attractive tourist country, it has many key tourist attractions of the world civilisation, in order to attract and instruct people to go to these tourist attractions, France has set up corresponding tourist attraction preview signs on the motorways and other roads. France has two kinds of tourist attractions previews: one is for the world-class tourist areas with high reputation, which need to be previewed and guided in a wide range and long distance, such as the Palace of Versailles, Fontainebleau Palace, etc., and the information of these important tourist attractions can be equated with the information of other roads, which can be combined together and set up in the face of all kinds of wayfinding signs, and the colour, text form, etc., are consistent with the information of the others; and the other is for the general tourist attractions, such as the cities, which are not the same as the other tourist attractions, which are not the same as the other road information. Second, for general tourist attractions, such as the city's central church, castle, etc., these attractions reputation, not large, but they are quite local characteristics, also attract people to visit, visit. These tourist attractions are also signposted on motorways. The sign face colour of the tourist attraction teaser sign takes a brown base with white text. The patterns and borders are clearly different from other wayfinding signs. The plate pattern of the tourist attraction preview sign is an image depiction of the attraction, highlighting the main features of the attraction, and the text content of the plate includes the name of the attraction, the name of the city or location, etc.

3. Urban road signs

France's urban roads are rarely constructed large interchanges, but to plane intersections, and even large level crossing plazas mostly, such as Paris, within the ring highway in the centre of the city basically do not have large interchanges, but there are many famous plazas, such as Charles de Gaulle, Champs Elysées Square and so on. These squares are both famous tourist attractions, but also the city's transport hub, in these squares of the various entrances to the road is generally set up on the French people called ‘star-shaped sign’, that is, the roundabout sign, which graphically depicts the plane of the intersection of the various radial road access direction and destination. The colour of a roundabout sign is white with black letters and patterns, indicating that it is set up on a general road, but if a message in white letters on a green background is embedded in the sign, it indicates that the location indicated can only be reached via a motorway.

In addition, at general level crossings, a more distinctive type of monopole sign is usually installed. These monopost signs are generally black on white with a black border, but will need to be adapted to indicate a motorway, e.g. to indicate the A13 motorway in line with the white on blue of a national motorway. This single-pillar sign is generally composed of a number of long small signs combined, each small sign set an independent message, and according to the specific content of the different colours to distinguish, each small sign are made into the shape of an arrow, a clear indication of the direction of travel on the road.