Icelandic Transport Authority

Traffic signals

A new regulation (no. 250/2024) on Traffic signs and their usage came into action on March 1st 2024.

A new classification system is introduced that is based on numbers instead of letters before. New categories, priority and special rule marks, are introduced and various other categories are merged.

New categories are shown below, and under each category, the changes that have occurred within the category are shown:

Four new warning labels are introduced. Signals 115, 149 and 153 are expected to be used primarily as variable traffic signals when applicable:

108.2 Holes

115 Impaired visibility due to weather

149 traffic delays

153 Accident

Road traffic signals warning animals are now combined into one mark, 146 Animals, and the appropriate image of an animal may be used. The Regulation gives six examples, but this list is not exhaustive:

Waiting signals are moved from the warning signal category to the priority signal category.

A new category of priority signs is introduced, which stipulates the priority of traffic, including at junctions.

One new logo.
Other labels are moving from other categories to this one.

216 Merging traffic

A new signal is introduced where two traffic streams merge into one

it is recommended that the leading cars from the two streams take turns driving in the new stream
the so-called cogwheel principle or mesh drive

202 obligation to wait

204 Stop sign

206 Main road

208 Main road ends

212 Oncoming traffic has priority

214 Oncoming traffic gives priority

Special regulation signal is a new category of traffic signal which provides

special rules
traffic restrictions

In this category, the marks that move from other categories to this category are unchanged, together with new and changed marks

500 Lane signs

501 Lane signs above roads

508 Group vehicles in public transport

512 Public bus stop

516 Cross walk

521 Bike lane

526 one way

540 Vistgata

542 Vistgata endar

544 Urban area

546 end of Urban area

548 Walkway

550 pedestrian street ends

552.1 Parking

552.3 Parking with payment

553 specific parking

554 Parking for disabled

555 Emergency exits

562 Max speed

563 Max speed ends

572 Limits of an area where the authorization to park a vehicle is restricted

573 parking zone ends

576 Limits of an area where vehicles may be parked

577 Area where vehicles may be parked ends

Information tags are now only for the information of road users, but no longer provide for invitations and prohibitions. Many signals that were previously information signals are transferred to the category of special rule marks.

New information tags

655.62 Meðalhraðaeftirlit

655.71 Eftirlitsmyndavél

659 electronic payment

660 Emergency exit

652.71 Botngata

More logo configurations

656 max speed info

658 Leiðbeinandi leið fyrir tegund umferðar

The Road sign requiring a road tax ceases to be used and the 659 Electronic fee tag will presumably be used instead.

Road signs and service marks are combined into one category.

Brown road signs referring to tourist areas

723.41 Ferðamannastaður með vörðu

723.42 Staður á heimsminjaskrá Sameinuðu þjóðanna

725.1 Jarðgöng

Road signs for cycle paths and cycle routes are green and when applicable, the wheel marks in the colour of the cycle route

The Road Guide Travellers' Route is deleted. The predicted increase in the number of tourist routes would result in a substantial increase in the number of unwanted road traffic signals if all of them were marked separately.

The number of service marks declines by about one-seventh. There remains emergency services and other important services for vehicular traffic as well as other selected signals. This is primarily done to reduce the number of unnecessary road traffic signals.