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Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems - Collection C: Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 (Tutorials 4, 5, 6), 23 (Updated), 24, 25, 26 (Updated) (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Presentation of Bilingual Information
Pages 49-50

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... Presenting bilingual information on a sign can increase reading times for monolingual and bilingual drivers. It is important to minimize this increase in reading times to reduce driver distraction.
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... The effect is greater for m onolingual readers, based on bilingual readers in the English/French study seeming to respond to whichever language was first on the sign. The studies that are cited on bilingual messages were performed using English and Welsh, which have identical character sets.
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