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Driver location sign

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Driver location signs are signs placed every along each side of English motorways, and some other major English roads, to provide information that will allow motorists to know their precise location. [1]

47 relations: A1(M) motorway, A38 road, A55 road, Direction, position, or indication sign, Emergency telephone, Highway location marker, Kilometre, M1 motorway, M11 motorway, M18 motorway (Great Britain), M2 motorway (Great Britain), M20 motorway, M23 motorway, M25 motorway, M26 motorway, M27 motorway, M3 motorway (Great Britain), M32 motorway, M4 motorway, M40 motorway, M42 motorway, M45 motorway, M48 motorway, M49 motorway, M5 motorway, M50 motorway (Great Britain), M53 motorway, M54 motorway, M55 motorway, M56 motorway, M58 motorway, M6 motorway, M60 motorway, M602 motorway, M61 motorway, M62 motorway, M65 motorway, Metrication of British transport, Milestone, Orders of magnitude (length), Road signs in Malaysia, Road signs in the United Kingdom, Roads in the United Kingdom, Route number, The Highway Code, Traffic sign, 999 (emergency telephone number).

A1(M) motorway

A1(M) is the designation given to a series of four separate motorway sections in England.

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A38 road

The A38, part of which is also known as the Devon Expressway, is a major A-class trunk road in England.

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A55 road

The A55, also known as the North Wales Expressway (Welsh: Gwibffordd Gogledd Cymru) is a major road in Britain.

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Direction, position, or indication sign

A direction sign, more fully defined as a direction, position, or indication sign by the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, is any road sign used primarily to give information about the location of either the driver or possible destinations, and are considered a subset of the informative signs group.

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Emergency telephone

An emergency telephone is a phone specifically provided for making calls to emergency services and is most often found in a place of special danger or where it is likely that there will only be a need to make emergency calls.

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Highway location marker

A highway location marker is the modern-day US equivalent of a milestone.

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Kilometre

The kilometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: km; or) or kilometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for). It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the road network of the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used.

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M1 motorway

The M1 is a motorway in England connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.

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M11 motorway

The M11 motorway is a 52-mile (88.5 km) motorway that runs north from the North Circular Road (A406) in South Woodford in northeast London to the A14, northwest of Cambridge, England.

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M18 motorway (Great Britain)

The M18 is a motorway in Yorkshire, England.

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M2 motorway (Great Britain)

The M2 is a motorway in Kent, England.

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M20 motorway

The M20 is a motorway in Kent, England.

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M23 motorway

The M23 is a motorway in the United Kingdom.

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M25 motorway

The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a motorway that encircles almost all of Greater London, England (with the exception of North Ockendon), in the United Kingdom.

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M26 motorway

The M26 is a motorway in Kent, England.

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M27 motorway

The M27 is a motorway in Hampshire, England.

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M3 motorway (Great Britain)

The M3 is a motorway that runs from Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, to Southampton, Hampshire, a distance of approximately.

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M32 motorway

The M32 is a motorway in South Gloucestershire and Bristol, England, which at roughly is one of Britain's shortest.

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M4 motorway

The M4 is a motorway which runs between London and South Wales in the United Kingdom.

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M40 motorway

The M40 is a motorway connecting London and Birmingham; part of this road forms a section of the unsigned European route E05.

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M42 motorway

The M42 motorway is a major road in England.

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M45 motorway

The M45 is a motorway in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, England and is long.

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M48 motorway

The M48 is a long motorway in Great Britain, which connects Gloucestershire, England, and Monmouthshire, Wales, via the original Severn Bridge.

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M49 motorway

The M49 motorway is a 5-mile (8 km) motorway west of Bristol, England, that forms a link between the M5 motorway at Junction 18, and the Second Severn Crossing, on the M4 motorway at Junction 22.

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M5 motorway

The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands and the South West.

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M50 motorway (Great Britain)

The M50 is a 22-mile/35-km-long dual two-lane motorway in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, England.

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M53 motorway

The M53 is an motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula in England.

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M54 motorway

The M54 is a 23-mile (37 km) east-west dual carriageway in the English counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire.

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M55 motorway

The M55 is a motorway in Lancashire, England, which can also be referred to as the Preston Northern Bypass.

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M56 motorway

The M56 motorway, also known as the North Cheshire motorway, is in Cheshire and Greater Manchester, England.

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M58 motorway

The M58 is a motorway passing through Merseyside and Lancashire, terminating in Greater Manchester.

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M6 motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction (J45).

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M60 motorway

The M60 motorway, Manchester Ring Motorway, or Manchester Outer Ring Road, is an orbital motorway in North West England.

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M602 motorway

The M602 motorway is a relatively short motorway, leading traffic into Salford, Greater Manchester, England, towards Manchester and by-passing the suburban town of Eccles.

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M61 motorway

The M61 is a motorway in North West England.

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M62 motorway

The M62 is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester and Leeds; of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester.

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M65 motorway

The M65 is a motorway in Lancashire, England.

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Metrication of British transport

A metrication programme for the United Kingdom was announced by the government in 1965 at the behest of the engineering industry and received government approval on condition that its implementation was voluntary, that it was implemented on an industry-by-industry basis and that costs were absorbed where they fell.

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Milestone

A milestone is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile.

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Orders of magnitude (length)

The following are examples of orders of magnitude for different lengths.

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Road signs in Malaysia

Road signs in Malaysia are standardised road signs similar to those used in Europe but with certain distinctions.

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Road signs in the United Kingdom

Road signs used in the United Kingdom conform broadly to European norms, though a number of signs are unique and direction signs omit European route numbers.

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Roads in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has a network of roads, of varied quality and capacity, totalling about.

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Route number

A route (or road) number is an identifying numeric (or alphanumeric) designation assigned by a highway authority to a particular stretch of roadway to distinguish it from other routes and, in many cases, also to indicate its classification (e.g. motorway, primary route, regional road, etc.), general geographical location (in zonal numbering systems) and/or orientation (north-south v. east-west).

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The Highway Code

The Highway Code is a set of information, advice, guides and mandatory rules for all road users in the United Kingdom.

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Traffic sign

Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users.

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999 (emergency telephone number)

999 is an official emergency telephone number in a number of countries which allows the caller to contact emergency services for urgent assistance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_location_sign

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