Informational Signs — Meaning and Full List
What are informational signs?
Informational signs guide you on the road: directions to cities, distances, service areas, hospitals, parking lots, and rest areas. Unlike warning or prohibitory signs, they don't impose a mandatory action or warn of an immediate risk — they help you find your way and plan your trip. They are indispensable on unfamiliar roads and long journeys. In the IMT theory test they appear less often than warning or prohibitory signs, but they are still a tested topic, especially those related to motorways and parking areas.
Full list of informational signs (30)
Dead end street with a passage for pedestrians and cyclists
Information about the directions of the crossroad
End of a lane
Road with two-way traffic
End of the road with one-way traffic
Motorway Ends
Priority road ahead
End of the expressway
Road ahead is a dead end
End of the recommended speed
Priority over oncoming traffic, road narrows
Motorway begins
Begin of a parking zone
Priority road ends
One-way traffic
Begin of a new lane
Parking permitted
Recommended speed
Road bends ahead
Begin of a tunnel
Information about the directions of the roundabout
End of the parking zone
Road bends ahead
Begin of an expressway
End of the tunnel
Route to be followed in order to turn left
Pedestrian crossing - People can cross
National speed limits
Information about the destination of the ramp
Lane usage and direction overview
Exam tips: informational signs
Not every blue sign is purely informational: "One-way traffic" and "Parking permitted" have legal effect, while "Recommended speed" is just a suggestion — the exam likes to test this distinction.
"Start/end" pairs (motorway, expressway, tunnel, parking zone) change the traffic rules — for example, the mandatory minimum speed and the pedestrian ban only apply between the start sign and the end sign.
"Recommended speed" is not binding; don't confuse it with the prohibitory "Speed limit" sign (red circle), which is mandatory.
For direction signs at crossroads and roundabouts, the question usually tests whether you can read the relative position of the arrows, not just the place names.
Common mistakes with informational signs
Treating recommended speed as mandatory
"Recommended speed" is an informational sign (blue rectangle) and does not legally bind the driver, unlike "Speed limit", which is a mandatory prohibitory sign.
Missing the end of a motorway or expressway
After "Motorway ends" or "End of the expressway", specific rules such as the mandatory minimum speed no longer apply — a common mistake is assuming those rules still hold.
Confusing one-way with priority
"One-way traffic" indicates the allowed direction on a road; it should not be confused with "Priority over oncoming traffic", which is about who goes first at a narrowing, not about the direction of travel.
Frequently confused signs in informational signs
These pairs show up side by side in the exam precisely because they look alike — compare them closely.
Recommended speed
End of the recommended speed
The second has a diagonal gray bar over the number — a sign that the recommendation (not an obligation) no longer applies.
Motorway begins
Begin of an expressway
Very similar pictograms (a two-lane road with a bridge), but the associated rules differ — the expressway doesn't have, for example, the same access requirements as the motorway.
One-way traffic
End of the road with one-way traffic
The second shows the same rectangle but crossed by a diagonal bar — it indicates that from that point the road returns to two-way traffic.
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