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A -- IN-VEHICLE DISPLAY ICONS AND OTHER INFORMATION ELEMENTS SOL DTFH61-97-R-00061 DUE 062797 POC James H. Mowery III, Negotiator, telephone (202) 366-4244 FAXED AND TELEPHONED REQUESTS FOR THIS SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. INSTEAD, PLEASE REQUEST THE SOLICITATION BY SENDING A HARD COPY LETTER AND TWO SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS TO THE NEGOTIATOR AT THE ADDRESS SHOWN ABOVE. Using FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)plans to award a contract under which the contractor will perform research and make recommendations for standardizing the manner in which information is presented to drivers of automobiles through in-vehicle information systems (IVIS), advanced traveler information systems (ATIS), and intelligent vehicle transportation systems (ITS). New IVIS require the development of guidelines for the information to be presented to drivers. New and current symbols -- -both graphic and textual -- -will be needed to meet the information requirements of these new systems. Guidelines for the design of such new symbols, and for when the symbols shall be used, will be necessary. Currently, there is little standardization. Therefore, the contractor will review all available information on current in-vehicle symbol usage; develop candidate usage conventions for classes of information for both inside and outside the vehicle,; incorporate the results into a preliminary set of guidelines for the design and and use of in-vehicle symbols; design and perform experimentation to select te appropriate symbols for in-vehicle use; use the resulting data to write final guidelines for in-vehicle symbol usage encompassing both present and future symbols; and write both preliminary and empirically-based final guidelines. This is a FULL AND OPEN COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT. Therefore, all interested sources may submit a proposal. Telephoned and faxed requests for the solicitation will NOT be accepted. Instead, please request the solicitation by sending, to the negotiator at the address shown above, a HARD COPY of a request LETTER, with TWO SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS enclosed. (0122)

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