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Federal regulations require that signs have a high level of reflectivity and meet a certain size, design, and mounting regulations.
Homeowners associations, schools, and businesses are constantly making sure their signs are meeting the high standards set by cities and the federal government.
Reflective sheeting is one of the ways you can increase your sign's visibility and making everyone's lives safer.
Reflectivity is Technically Called Retroreflectivity
The term you will mostly see used by the Federal Highway Administration and other federal regulators is retroreflectivity. What is retroreflectivity and why is it important to incorporate some level of reflective sheeting into your signs?
Retroreflectivity simply refers to the ability of a sign's reflective sheeting to reflect back light. Reflective sheeting is put on signs to increase the night time visibility of signs. This can be huge benefit to parents picking up their kids late from the school parking lot or cities needing highly reflective street signs so that drivers can safely navigate.
More Reflective Signs Could Reduce Traffic Accidents
A federal report looked at where accidents tend to occur and what causes them. It turns out that signals and signs at intersections played a large role in either keeping everyone safe or predisposing drivers to accidents. The report also found that signs with reflective sheeting greatly improve visibility and reduce accidents.
Make Sure Your Signs are Reaching Their Potential
The Federal Highway Administration's report "Maintaining Traffic Sign Retroreflectivity: Impacts on State and Local Agencies," talks about the benefits of reflective sheeting, potential changes to federal rules regarding reflectivity, and why traffic signs with reflective sheeting should be upgraded over time. The report found that the sign's colors fading over time was one of the primary causes of signs being less reflective as the years wore on.
Worldwide, the amount of traffic is still growing every year. To keep all this traffic on the right track and to indicate roadworks, an incredible amount of traffic signs is required. Traffic signs or road signs provide valuable information to drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. They indicate the rules in traffic, are helpful in making the roads safer and guide traffic in the right direction. All sorts of signs detailing one-way streets, speed limits, no entry points and many other symbols often use reflective materials to remain visible in the dark.
Strong materials for visibility and durability
No need to say traffic signs can even be a matter of life or death. Therefore, manufacturers make sure they are highly noticeable. And as they are meant to last a long time, they’d better be durable too. Print providers, therefore, use long-lasting fully reflective, durable sheeting for the printing road signs. Amongst this reflective sheeting we can distinguish three categories:
Engineer-grade, which is visible up to 150 m and mostly used as temporary work signs on sites.
High-Intensity Prismatic grade (HIP), which is visible up to 300 m
Diamond grade, which has the greatest visibility of the three (up to 450 m)
