The common Malaysian state road signboard which shares the same charaterstics as the Malaysian federal road signs.

Road signs in Malaysia are standardised road signs similar to those used in Europe but with certain distinctions. Until the early 1980s, Malaysia closely practice in road sign design, with diamond-shaped warning signs and circular restrictive signs to regulate traffic. Signs usually use the Transport Heavy (cf. the second image shown to the right) font on non-tolled roads and highways. Tolled expressways signs use a font specially designed for the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) which is LLM Lettering. It has two type of typefaces, LLM Narrow and LLM Normal. Older road signs used the FHWA Series fonts (Highway Gothic) typeface also used in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Malaysian traffic signs use Bahasa Melayu (Malay), the official and national language of Malaysia. However, English is also used for used at public places such as tourist attractions, airports, railway stations and immigration checkpoints. Both Malay and English are used in the road signs that are located along the Pengerang Highway (Federal Route 92), which links Kota Tinggi to Sungai Rengit in Johor state and Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway which links Genting Sempah to Genting Highlands, which also have Chinese and Tamil on signs.

According to the road category under Act 333, the Malaysian Road Transport Act 1987, chapter 67, blue traffic signs are used for federal, state and municipal roads. Green signs are used for toll expressways or highways only.[1] There are four major types of road signs in Malaysia. First is Warning Signs (Tanda Amaran), second is Prohibition Signs (Tanda Larangan), third is Mandatory Signs (Tanda Wajib) and fourth is Information Signs (Tanda Maklumat).[2]

Expressway

Expressways use letters E-- (Example: North–South Expressway Northern Route)

Exits numbers usually starts with the Expressway route number and then exit number (Example: West Coast Expressway West Coast Expressway Exit 23 Teluk Intan (Exit 3223))

ExamplesInformationNumber digits
North–South Expressway Southern Route
Guthrie Corridor Expressway		Expressway route numbersE01 – E99
253
1108		Expressway exit numbersEXIT 201 – EXIT 299
EXIT 1101 – 1199

Federal

Federal Roads only use numbers and digits, for example Federal Route 1 (Example: Federal Route 1). However, federal road numbers can also be added with the FT— prefix before the route number, which is normally used by the Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR) and the Royal Malaysia Police. For example, Federal Route 1 can also be written as Federal Route FT1.[3] There are also service roads off of main federal roads that use letters after its main route (Example: FT 2A).

ExamplesInformationNumber digits

FT 24
FT 222		Main federal route numbers001–249
FT 276
FT 423		Institutional facilities federal roads250–479

Federal road exit numbersEXIT 1 – EXIT 99

FT 1-15
FT 22
FT 3		Main federal route numbers
(Sarawak and Sabah)		1-1 – 1–59
4-1 – 4–99
1000 – 9999
FT 700Main federal route numbers
(Labuan)		700–799
FT 1123
FT 2486		FELDA/FELCRA federal route numbers1000 – 1999
2000 – 2999
FT 3214
FT 3374		Industrial federal route numbers3000 – 3999
FT 2A
FT 2B		 Service road numbers --A – --Z

State

State roads use letters that correspond to each state. (refer here for state letter codes/plate numbers)

ExamplesInformationNumber digits
J32Johor state route numbersJ001 – J999
B1Selangor state route numbersB001 – B999
N9Negeri Sembilan state route numbersN001 – N999
SA3Sabah state route numbersSA001 – SA999
A1 Perak state route numbers A001 - A999
C243 Pahang state route numbers C001 - C999
D12 Kelantan state route numbers D001 - D999
K22 Kedah state route numbers K001 - K999
M67 Melaka state route numbers M001 - M999
P5 Pulau Pinang state route numbers P001 - P999
T23 Terengganu state route numbers T001 - T999
R55 Perlis state route numbers P001 - P999
Q600 Sarawak state route numbers Q001 - Q999

Q1000 - Q9999

Warning signs

Malaysian warning signs are diamond-shaped or rectangular and are yellow and black or red and white in colour.

Prohibition signs

Malaysia prohibition signs are round with red outline and black pictogram.

Mandatory signs

Mandatory instruction signs are round with blue backgrounds and white pictogram. These are also used in signifying specific vehicle type lanes.

Speed limit signs

These signs show speed limit on roads.

Construction/Temporary signs

The construction signs in Malaysia are diamond-shaped placed on rectangular sign and are orange and black in colour.

Information signs

Malaysian information signs are blue.

Directional and distance signs

Motorcycle lane

Malaysian motorcycle lane signs are blue.

Expressway signs

Expressway signs have a green background. If the sign is not located on an expressway but is leading to one, it will have a blue background with green box in it.

Old format expressway signs

Outdated sign designs that are no longer in use.

Non-tolled Federal, State and Municipal Roads

Malaysian road signs are blue and used for federal, state and municipal roads.

  • Blue with white letters signs for major destinations
  • Maroon with white letters signs for recreational places/tourist spot
  • Blue with yellow letters signs for street names
  • White with green letters signs for specific places/buildings
  • Green with yellow letters signs for government buildings/institution
  • White with blue letters signs for residential area
Federal Route 1 Federal Roads
B13 State Roads

Old format

Asian Highway route signs

As part of the Asian Highway Network.

Border signs

Border signs in Malaysia are green for international and state and blue for district.

International border signs

State border signs

District border signs

Institution and building signs

These are other important signs in Malaysia such as government institutions and tourist destinations.

  • White with black letters for towns and other settlements.
  • Green with orange letters for government institutions.
  • White with green letters and Maroon with white letters for tourist destinations.

Tourist destination signs

Malaysian tourist destination signs are in maroon with white and black icons.

Weighing bridge signs

There is also a signs for weighing bridge.

Road name signs

Road name sign in Malaysia have many different colours and styles according the local authority to design with them.

Road markings

Road markings in Malaysia primarily use thermoplastic and are white. Yellow markings are usually for road shoulders, construction or temporary markings and parking.[5]

Centre lines

Centre lines divide the road into either direction.

Edge lines

Edge lines are located at the edges of a road, whether there is a median or pavement or not.

Lane dividers

Lane dividers divide road into lanes according to its designated width.

Directional markings

Directional marking consists of arrows and lettering on the road.

Other type road markings

Miscellaneous

These signs usually found at the bridge.

River signs

These signs usually found at the bridge.

Highway concessionaires border limit

Many expressways/highways has a border limit.

Traffic Light codes

Many traffic lights have codes in them.

Kuala Lumpur

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Akta 333: AKTA PENGANGKUTAN JALAN 1987" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Drive in Malaysia
  3. ↑ Federal Route 1 Maklumat Mengenai Papan Tanda Arah, Destinasi dan Nombor Laluan Jalan Raya Malaysia Archived 19 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia. Retrieved on 23 August 2008.
  4. ↑ "Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur". July 2018.
  5. ↑ "JKR Road Marking & Delineation". dokumen.tips. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
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