Transportation-Markings Foundations is an integrative study of all forms of safety aids that provide guidance, regulations, warnings, information to modes of transport. It introduces the the field through a review of communication, semiotics, holarchy. It also examines visual, acoustic, electronic processes. Taxonomy, design, cultural constructs are also included. It is part of Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication Monograph Series.

Undergirding T-M Foundations and other studies of Volume I are two previous monographs: Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication, and American Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication. The first named title was published by University Press of America (1981; ISBN: 0-8191-1654-8). It incorporates a revised version of an older Peter de Ridder Press title, and also included the first of the modal studies, International Marine Aids to Navigation. The title of the UPA edition, Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication, did not include "Monograph Series". The several parts were not identified on cover or title page. Part A had two sections; an arrangement that has been dropped. The marine study was divided into Floating Aids (Part C), and Fixed Aids (Part D); both parts are now closely aligned. The Preface referred to "Volume I" but that was not extended to cover or title page. A 2nd Impression of the UPA study was produced and listed under Mount Angel Abbey. The cover includes Monograph Series, Volume I, First Edition, 2nd Impression and the several parts of the study. 2nd Impression: 1985, ISBN: O-918941-06-7. The second named title was accepted by Thomas Sebeok, editor of Studies in Semiotics (Indiana University). Those titles were to be published by Peter de Ridder Press (The Netherlands). However, the Press went out of business before finishing the Series; American T-M was not published. The manuscript is a partial basis for Foundations, and First Study in T-M US. ISBN: 90-316-0132-2 (1977).

This study is a survey of diverse navigation aids that included lighted aids, signs,
markings, indicators, radio aids. It includes a discussion of terminology, history, classification of T-M forms, descriptions of aids, messages and meanings. 1st edition, 1994. Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communications Monograph Series. Mount Angel Abbey, St Benedict, OR.

This study has the goal of illuminating the integration of diverse T-M forms through an examination of the key disciplines of communication, information, and semiotics that both undergird and provide links to T-M modes. 1st edition, 2011. Part of Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication in Monograph Series. Mount Angel Abbey. St Benedict OR.

Transportation-Markings Database encompasses five monographs. Four of these are modal in form (Marine, Aero, Road, Rail). They contain category and alphabetical indexes of the individual terms accompanied by description of the terms. The database draws on the General Classification as well as the individual modal monographs. The classification provides a structure for the description of the many terms. The final database monograph, Composite Categories Classification & Index, draws together those aspects of each of the monographs. It does not include description of terms. A traditional index (an alphabetical index of every occurrence of a term) has been added to the modal subdivisions. Note: the alphabetical index for each mode list the primary usage of each term not every occurrence.

Marine Aids to Navigation, 1st ed., 1997; 2nd ed., 2007
Traffic Control Device, 1st ed., 1998; 2nd ed., 2008
Railway Signals, 1st ed., 2000; 2nd ed., 2009
Aero Navigation Aids, 1st ed., 2001; 2nd ed., 2009
Composite Categories Classification & Index, 1st ed., 2006

The General Classification is an amalgamation of all of the classifications in the modal studies. The original title was General Classification of International Transportation-Markings. 1st edition, 1994. 2nd edition, 2003. 3rd edition, 2010. This part of Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication Monograph Series. Mount Angel Abbey. St. Benedict OR.

This study reviews the historical development of many forms of safety aids (marine, aero, road, rail) over the last quarter-millenium.
1st edition, 2002. Part of Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication Monograph Series. Mount Angel Abbey. St. Benedict OR.

This study is a survey not only of full-scale signals but also of signs, boards, posts, and unlighted aids. Sound signals and a limited range of radio aids are also included as are classification, history, messages and meanings and methodology. 1st edition, 1991. Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication Monograph Series. Mt Angel Abbey, St Benedict OR.

This study is a survey of Transportation-Markings for road and street transportation. It contains a classification of signals, signs, surface and other markings. Discussion of international agreements and systems, messages and meanings, history and description of signs, signals, markers, surface markings are included. 1st edition, 1984. 2nd edition, 2010.

This monograph is a survey of Transportation-Markings for marine navigation. It includes a classification of fixed and floating aids as well as radio and acoustic aids. History, messages and descriptions are included as well. 2nd edition, 1988. 3rd edition, 2010. Part of Transportation-Markings: A Study in Communication Monograph Series. Mount Angel Abbey. St Benedict OR.

This monograph is a cross-modal study that includes all transport modes safety aids in one nation. It is an adjunct study to the four modal studies. It includes a markings classification as well as a descriptive treatment of those aids. 2nd edition, 1992. Mount Angel Abbey publisher. 1st edition was published by University Press of America; that edition included two other studies.

T-M General Table of Contents with Index is a compilation of the table of contents for 14 monographs that are current; 21 are non-current. 1st-5th editions: 2002-2005. 6th-8th editions: 2008-2011; they add second subset to the title: With General Preface. Project is known as Transportation-Markings: A
Study in Communication Monograph Series