HIGHWAY TECH | Featured Project | AP-101 Read Your Road

It's an idea whose time has come--an easy-to-read detailed guide to road safety called Read Your Road. It's written by the Federal Highway Administration--the people who help provide a safe environment for all highway users. The guide covers the built-in safety features of our roads and helps drivers learn to read, understand and respond to pavement markings, signs, signals and more.

The guide includes a trivia quiz to help readers see how much they can learn. It's filled with practical safety tips as well as in-depth chapters on sharing the road, navigating the road and dealing with the unexpected.

What's in the Guide?

Everything there is to say about:

Reading the Road for Safety
Pavement Markings
Traffic Signals
Sharing the Road
Navigating the Road
Danger, Hazards, and the Unexpected
Helpful Tips that make travel easier and safer

It's Fun and Easy to Use

The guide is solution-driven. It helps highway users "read" the road for greater understanding. It also tells them how to use that new information to drive safely.

It explains how safety is " built-in" to road design. It tells highway users what to look for and how to benefit from these safety features.

It reminds drivers about general safe driving practices and alerts them to hidden high-risk situations.

It highlights most commonly misunderstood signs, signals and pavement markings so drivers know what they mean, what to expect and what to do.

The guide includes friendly features and simple language to make it easy to understand and fun to read.

There are tips throughout the guide which highlight safe solutions to situations known to be common, confusing and dangerous.

Answers to an introductory highway safety trivia quiz are placed throughout the guide.

For More Information

For more information about the Read Your Road guide, contact Ann Walls at:

(202) 366-6836
FAX: (202) 366-2249
E-Mail: ann.walls@fhwa.dot.gov

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration