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Abstract

The Traffic safety signs are easy-to-understand, people-oriented, and safety first. However, these traits, which are believed to be consistent, have often been erroneous and even misleading in the applications of traffic safety signs because the fact that most traits are generated under the same standard of understanding to the exclusion of individual differences. By comparing the contents of traffic safety signs and different objects, the study reveals that these objects hold different understandings towards different signs and even the same sign. Actually, the existing safety signs are designed in accordance with the understanding of adults, and children’s lack of understanding towards the existing safety signs would eventually result in traffic accidents on them. The study probes into 10 independent sign samples and 2 groups of sign samples with the same elements for a comparison of understanding of kids and adults towards safety signs, in a multidisciplinary context, alongside an analysis of their understanding. By analyzing the degree of understanding, the factors and relationships impacting the understanding (gender, age, educational background, environment, overall selections of kids and adults, complexity of symbolic elements, and color) could be figured out.<BR> The main children in the study ranged from 7 to 12 years old, the adult was divided into 18 years old, and the largest was 50 years old, so the study results were for these two ranges. The results showed that children and adults have different understandings of safety signs, and the average understanding level of adults is higher than that of children.