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Road marking norms by country

The document each country's road markings come from, a link to the regulator, and the dimensions CapCad draws from it — read straight out of the drawing engine, so this page and the software always agree.

Perú Brasil España Portugal France UK USA México Chile Colombia Argentina Ecuador Paraguay Canada الأردن 日本 مصر Česko Slovensko Laos Angola Moçambique السعودية Indonesia SADC SIECA Deutschland Ireland Nederland Italia India Cuba
Regulator
Housing and Building National Research Center

Norms

Published by the issuing body — we link to the source rather than host a copy, because these documents get revised.

Egyptian Code for Urban and Rural Road Works, Part 2 — Traffic Studies (ECP-104/2)
HBRC, by Ministerial Decree 158 · 1998
Line widths and cadences, the double line rules, the yellow edge line, and the sight distances below which a continuous line becomes mandatory. The code states in its own first section that it derives from American practice.
Traffic Law No. 66 of 1973 and its executive regulation
Government of Egypt · 1973
The legal effect of markings and signs. The code carries the dimensions; the law carries the obligation.
Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals
United Nations · 1968
Egypt acceded in December 2023, twenty-five years after the code was issued. No reissued Egyptian standard reconciling the two has been published.

Longitudinal markings CapCad draws (10)

Marking Norm reference
Centre line - continuous Continuous centre line, white. Used where overtaking or lane changing is prohibited (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.1). The figure notes 0,10 or 0,20 m
Centre line - inside the city, 3 m + 3 m Broken centre line, 0,10 m white, 3 m mark and 3 m gap, on roads inside the city (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.1)
Centre line - outside the city, 3 m + 8 m Broken centre line, 0,10 m white, 3 m mark and 8 m gap, on roads outside the city (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.1, fig. 7-1)
Double line - continuous and broken Double centre line, one continuous and one broken, so overtaking is shown separately per direction. Mandatory where the road is 6 m wide or more (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.3, fig. 7-3)
Double line - two continuous Two continuous centre lines, overtaking prohibited in both directions. Mandatory where there are two or more lanes per direction and no median (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.3)
Edge line - freeway and multilane, 0,20 m (yellow) Continuous YELLOW edge line, 0,20 m, on freeways and multilane roads. May be raised to 0,30 or 0,40 m where an engineering study shows a visibility need (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.4, fig. 7-5)
Edge line - other roads, 0,10 m (yellow) YELLOW edge line, 0,10 m and optionally 0,20 m, on all other roads. Continuous on main roads and broken on secondary roads (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.4)
Lane line - inside the city, 3 m + 3 m Broken lane line, 3 m mark and 3 m gap, white, 0,10 m inside the city (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.1)
Lane line - outside the city, 4 m + 8 m Broken lane line, 4 m mark and 8 m gap, white. 0,20 m on expressways and 0,10 m on urban roads (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.1)
Warning line - 9 m + 3 m Warning line, 0,10 m white, 9 m mark and 3 m gap. Used on the centre line of a two-way road where overtaking is permitted but hazardous, the code's example being a high share of slow vehicles (ECP-104/2 s. 7.5.2, fig. 7-2)
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