A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF ROAD SIGNS COMPREHENSION AMONG NEW AND EXPERIENCED DRIVER

Abstract

Signboard is one of the important tools to transfer information or any message to the user. As an important and necessary tool, it will help the users on the road to get direction, warning of danger, the right action to take and much more. However, sometimes the designs of signboard may confuse, drivers may misunderstand the message and hardly to understand the information given, resulting those signboards to being ignored by the road users and may resulting stress among road users because the information does not help them while on the road. The objective of this study is to identify how far the road users compatible toward the signboard on the road. In this study, an analysis about traffic signboard comprehension among new and experience driver in Johor region, Malaysia was conducted. Results showed no significant differences between new and experience driver in comprehension of traffic sign but suggest the importance of signs conformance to universal ergonomic principles of good design to be comprehended by drivers