Analyzes transportation energy consumption and energy intensiveness for inter-city freight and passenger traffic and urban passenger traffic with the definition of energy intensiveness as Btu per ton-mile or per passenger-mile. Indicates that public education is one of three ways to achieve the goals of energy conservation. (CC)

Librarians wishing to check over their books on China should turn to the China section of the Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print'' (1971). The 26 references in the bibliography presented here may be helpful. All the books mentioned, except one, were published in the 1960's and 1970's. (Author/NH)

Suggestions for activities to develop pupils' understanding of feelings, customs, and outlooks" of children in other lands. (Author/SP)

Reflections and comments of a school superintendent, a professor, and a seven-year-old child who accompanied a group to China are presented. They comment on a variety of topics, including education, communal life, the state of the revolution, and the people. (RM)

Characterizes social studies education in Japan and in the United States and evaluates knowledge and attitude changes experienced by American social studies teachers during educational trips to Japan. (DB)

The article describes a curriculum for the visually handicapped which provides instruction in the four basic facets of landmark travel. The concepts included in the curriculum are: (1) learning the concept of landmarks, (2) remaining oriented to landmarks, (3) following direction based on landmarks, and (4) giving verbal directions based on them.…

A trip down the Colorado river on a raft is recounted. (JD)

Focuses on the home office and video teleconferencing as the basis for developing a social psychological perspective on the use of telecommunications as a travel substitute. (MH)

Explored are possible areas for application of psychometric techniques in the transportation planning process; that is, the mechanism for estimating and forecasting travel in urban areas. Described is the disaggregate, behavioral, probabilistic approach to travel demand estimation; potentials for the use of psychometric techniques are then…

This study evaluated the ability of 40 blind adults to spatially organize large outdoor places using a verbal response survey and a near space lapboard task. The study found a high correlation between performances on the large outdoor environment with and without sighted guide tasks. The lapboard task also predicted performance in the outdoor…

The use of a travel writer's approach to social studies instruction, where students gather information to write travel guides about countries they're studying, is illustrated through activities for studies about Egyptian passport and visa applications, currency, history, language, and art. (CB)

Examines commuting flows between metropolitan central cities, other metropolitan areas, nonmetropolitan areas, and other rural areas. Commuting in 1980 was predominately toward larger places in the rural-urban hierarchy, and particularly from rural areas and the other metropolitan category to cities. Differences in commuting flows by gender,…