<html><body dir="auto"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoFooter"><!--[endif]-->The research team for this project consists of Rob Wall Emerson, PhD, COMS, Western Michigan University, Janet Barlow, COMS, and Billie Louise (Beezy) Bentzen, PhD, COMS, Accessible Design for the Blind. This research has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Western Michigan University. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoFooter"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoFooter">Each participant in the research will receive an honorarium and reimbursement for transportation expenses. We expect to collect data on alignment and street crossings by 20 people in your city over the course of the study. Our plan is to collect data on 18 participants during our data collection visit of approximately one week. There will be two ‘pilot’ participants in addition to the 18. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>