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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for States and Highways
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1942-11-01
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Edition:War Emergency Edition
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Abstract:By concurrent action the American Association of State Highway Officials, the Institute of Traffic Engineers and the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety in May 1942 appointed a Joint Committee of twenty-one members, seven representatives from each group, and charged the Committee with the responsibility of revising the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, originally issued in 1935 and last revised in 1939. At its first meeting the Committee, recognizing the abnormal conditions imposed by the war effort, as particularly evidenced by the shortage of critical materials and the expanding requirements of the blackout and dimout, unanimously agreed to direct its energies to the preparation of a manual of emergency standards adapted to existing and foreseeable wartime conditions. To insure that the standards proposed would in all cases be consistent with the policies of agencies charged with the prosecution of the war and the organization of civilian defense, and to take full advantage of the experience of these agencies, the Committee membership was expanded, for the purpose of the preparation of the emergency standards, to include Representatives of the War Department and the Office of Civilian Defense, and close liaison relations were established with the War Production Board.
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