Street sign in Quito, Ecuador, pointing the way to the middle of the world
Road signs in Ecuador are regulated in Manual Básico de Señalización Vial[1][2][3] and Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano. RTE INEN 004-1:2011. Señalización vial, which is based on the United States' Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) originally developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).[4] Thus, road signs in Ecuador are similar in design to road signs used in the United States. One of the differences is that Ecuador uses the metric system, for example, vehicle speed is measured in km/h.[5]
Ecuador uses diamond-shaped warning signs on a yellow background in common with most of the rest of the Americas. One of the rare exceptions is the "Tramway crossing" warning sign used in the Cuenca Tramway, which has a triangular shape with a red border and white background, similar to warning signs used in Europe.[6] The regulatory and prohibitory signs are all of them rectangular, with the exception of the stop and the yield sign. Like Australia and the United States, the mandatory sign group is not used in Ecuador.
Ecuador signed the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals on November 8, 1968 but has yet to fully ratify it.[7]
The suffix D means "right", from Spanish derecha, while the suffix I means "left", from Spanish izquierda.
^"manual de señalizacion | PDF | Semáforo | Autobús". Scribd. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
^"Manual Basico de Senalizacion Vial | PDF | Semáforo | Peatonal". Scribd. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
^"Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano. RTE INEN 004-1:2011. Señalización vial. Parte 1: Señalización Vertical" (PDF). www.obraspublicas.gob.ec (in Spanish). Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización. 2011. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
^"LIBRO A. NORMA PARA ESTUDIOS Y DISEÑOS VIALES. NORMA ECUATORIANA VIAL" (PDF). www.obraspublicas.gob.ec (in Spanish).
^Telégrafo, El (2018-10-08). "Semaforización se toma las avenidas de Cuenca". El Telégrafo (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-30.
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