Baggage

Synonyms / Other Terms Used

Luggage

Category

Travel, General Information, Public Facilities

Message / Function

For notice in general and to indicate services related to baggage

	Source	Description
	TC	Side view of suitcase and bag, each with badges
	IATA	Side view of suitcase with label, box in front
	Nanda Ririz	Side view of two cases with handle, one in outline
	AmruID	Side view of trolley and case, each with handle
	O'72	Side view of case with handle plus frontal view of case with handle
	richad	Side view of a trolley with handle
	sripfoto	Side view of a trolley with handle in outline
	mikicon	Side view of a trolley with handle
	LVA	Side view of a case with handle, two vertical lines and label
	ÖNORM A 3011	Side view of a case with handle, two vertical lines and label
	PC	Side view of a case with handle, two vertical lines and label
	NS 1980	Side view of a case with handle, two vertical lines and label
	CNIS	Side view of a case with handle and two vertical lines
	AIGA	Side view of a case with handle and two vertical lines
	UIC 413	Side view of a case with handle and two vertical lines
	TA	Side view of a case with handle and two vertical lines
	DB	Side view of a case with handle and two vertical lines
	BS 8501:2002	Side view of a case with handle and label
	WO'72	Side view of a case with handle and round label
	Picto'grafics	Side view of a case with handle
	DB	Side view of a case with handle
	Port	Side view of a case with handle
	CGN	Side view of a case with handle
	Düsseldorf Airport	Side view of a case with handle
	Bliss	Side view of a case with handle

Discussion

In the collection above - which is only a small selection of the wide variety of pictograms used all over the world to indicate baggage - we also included pieces of baggage just used as element in other baggage related pictograms like for example Baggage Claim, Left Luggage, or Baggage Enquiries. Variants used to indicate bulky resp. non standard baggage were not included in this collection.

There is only very limited test data available for the referent Baggage or Luggage in General: In a Matching Test with a set of 29 symbols (Zwaga & Boersema, 1983) the pictogram variant from the Dutch Railways (NS 1980) reached 29.5 % correct responses. Not very surprisingly confusions happened with all luggage related pictograms, which is acceptable as the intended function is For notice in general and to indicate services related to baggage. If one wants to study the quality of pictogram variants for this message as defined before, identifyability and legibility should be in the foreground.

Tests of pictograms of referent Baggage

Zwaga, H.J. & Boersema, T. (1983): Evaluation of a set of graphic symbols. Applied Ergonomics, 14, 1, 43-54.