U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
400 Seventh St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20590

February 11, 2005
Refer to: HOTO-1

Mr. Lap T. Huang
State Traffic Operations Engineer
Florida Department of Transportation
605 Suwannee Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0450

Dear Mr. Huang:

Thank you for forwarding the December 14, 2004, revised request to experiment with an additional pedestrian traffic control devices application in Florida as part of FHWA Cooperative Agreement DTFH61-O1-X-00018. Your revised experimentation project has been reviewed and is consistent with the guidelines detailed in Section IA. 10 of the MUTCD. Your request to experiment is approved. The following official ruling number and title has been assigned: 2-557(E) -- "ITS Directional Advance Pedestrian Warning Display for Motorists, Evaluation at an Unsignalized Crosswalk." Please refer to this number in fixture correspondence.

Please let us know the implementation and completion dates for this experimentation. We look forward to receiving both semiannual progress reports and your final report. If you have questions or wish additional information, please feel free to call Mr. Fred Ranck, Safety/Design Engineer at Federal Highway Administration's Resource Center in Olympia Fields, Illinois. His telephone number is 708-283-3545.

Sincerely yours,

Regina S. McElroy
Director, Office of Transportation Operations

cc: Mr. Roger Wentz, ATSSA