Traffic Rules and Road Signs
Core concepts
Azerbaijan uses a sign system closely aligned with the Vienna Convention, so signs fall into familiar families: warning (triangular, red border), priority, prohibitory (circular, red border), mandatory (circular, blue), information, service, and supplementary plates. Candidates must know the difference between a sign that prohibits an action and one that merely warns of a hazard, and must recognise that supplementary plates (time, distance, vehicle category) modify the main sign rather than standing alone.
Speed, priority and positioning
Learn default speed limits for built-up areas, outside built-up areas, and motorways, plus the special limits for towing, carrying passengers in certain vehicles, and driving in residential zones. Priority rules matter: at an unmarked intersection the general rule is that the driver yields to traffic approaching from the right, unless road surface, signs, or signals say otherwise. Trams generally have priority over other vehicles where their paths conflict.
Traps in questions
- A sign with a red border is usually prohibitory; a blue circle is usually mandatory, not advisory.
- "Give way" and "stop" are different: a stop sign requires a full halt, a give-way sign does not.
- A warning sign does not change the legal speed limit by itself.
- Temporary signs (roadworks) override permanent ones.
Rule of thumb
When a question describes an unmarked equal-priority junction, first ask "who is on my right?" and yield to that vehicle unless a sign, signal, or road geometry says otherwise.