It includes benches, traffic barriers, bollards, post boxes, phone boxes, streetlamps, traffic lights, traffic signs, bus stops, tram stops, taxi stands, public lavatories, fountains, watering troughs, memorials, public sculptures, and waste receptacles.

Street furniture (also called road furniture) are items added to roads, footpaths and verges to help influence road user behaviour and assist pedestrians.

Road safety furniture refers to all fixtures in the road and road reserve. The term includes fixtures on the road surface such as steel covers and traffic domes (silent cops) or lane markers, all of which can create a hazard for a motorcycle.