Raised pavement marker#Delineator

A delineator ( in Austria guide post, colloquially also limiting pile or road boundary pillar) is a transport device which serves to delimit the roadway and a better recognition their course. The German Road Traffic Regulations shall specify in § 43, the delineator as a sign 620 In Austria the use in § 57Vorlage is: § / Maintenance / RIS search traffic regulations regulated.

Nature

In many cases, delineators nowadays consist of plastic, but there are also delineators of wood, concrete and steel. In addition to the corpus mainly make both sides mounted reflectors from the effect of the marker post.

Thus, in Austria a delineator model is used, which has, inter alia, a color symbolism in the front or right a red rectangular reflector and rear or left a white rectangular reflector are mounted.

That in Germany and in several other European countries ( Switzerland, Luxembourg, Sweden) model used consists of a 12 cm wide and 1 m high (above the edge of the road ), hollow, triangular plastic body, which is tapered up towards the roadway, a parallel mounted, 25 cm wide bandage made ​​of black plastic film ( day mark ) and in their recessed reflectors (front or right of a rectangular reflector, white, back and left two smaller round reflectors, white), representing the night indicator (Reflex characters).

At street intersections the Eckleitpfosten get yellow reflectors. Also receive entrant to the road sections delineators with yellow reflectors.

The delineators in the GDR were identical with the principle used in the Federal Republic. The only difference was that the guide posts of the outside of the curve is fitted to curves with red reflectors and the binding has been performed at this post red instead of black.

Function

Afford particularly in fog, snow and darkness delineators an important contribution to road safety. At junctions and crossings a delineator with yellow night indicator is set up on every corner in the wake of the continuous road.

On routes with increased risk Wildwechsel red or blue-white wildlife warning reflectors are mounted on the guide posts frequently. This draw at dusk or at night the headlights in the side street space, but also produce a wide spread. The game assumes the troubled beams and shies away.

At delineator may be attached a small black arrow that points in the direction of the next emergency telephone. Snow characters are placed in winter in snowy areas. You assume the role of guide posts in a lot of snow or snow drifts. Delineators are used in some parts of Germany as milestones or station sign. Then the mileage and the road number and sometimes also the section number of the kilometer is mounted on the right side.

List

Delineators are installed in Germany 50 centimeters from the outermost edge of the paved road surface and generally longitudinally spaced in a straight line and the plane of 50 feet ( 33 meters in Austria ). In tight corners and blind crests, depending on the radius or radius smaller distance. As a rule of thumb: There are on each side of the street - in curvatures less than 200 meters radius on the outside of the curve - at least 5 delineators always be visible.

For multi-lane roads with divided roadway, such as highways, delineators each lane are placed only on the right side.

Other countries

• See French delineators on both sides the same.
• In Italy, the right delineators on a red, the left a white reflector. The same applies for the Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Turkey.
• Belgium, Denmark and Lithuania use the right and left white yellow reflectors.
• As part of the standardization of European products are test specifications with EC standard in work.

History

In snowy high altitudes in winter 2 m long wooden poles, usually used in orange - black to make the road visible. For country roads until around 1957 simple wooden poles, which were painted black and white were used as limiting. The new delineators emerged from the 1957 set out new guidelines; decisive in the development was the company Kunzelmann Unteralpfen that developed an ingenious patent for years, which is used to this day. Another standard for producing system, the delineators worked in a " bounce back " principle, could not be implemented.