One hundred and thirty-three entries are listed in this general bibliography on transportation, the environment, and land use for transportation. The listings provide the most current information on these topics, dating from 1973 through 1975. The bulk of the documents are commercially published books, reports, and studies. Citations are…

The instructional booklet explores various occupations in the job family of transportation. Following a brief introduction to the concept of occupational clusters, the student is given an overall orientation to the general area of transportation. Chapter 2 describes jobs in water transportation, and chapter 3 deals with rail transportation,…

Almost 50 percent of the nation's poor reside in the South where 13 of every 100 whites and 41 of every 100 blacks are poor. The southern industries of ranching, dairy farming, cotton, and textiles are suffering from movement out of the area and development of competing products. Most new industries are small, labor oriented, low-profit-margin…

As part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this background study provides information on the Pima Central and Blackwater schools on the Gila River reservation south of Phoenix, Arizona. Socioeconomic and community background data are given on location and climate, transportation, government, housing, and…

This report is part of the evaluation of a program--Metropolitan Council on Educational Opportunity (METCO)-- for the academic year 1968-69, which provides screening, placement, and busing services for Negro children from predominantly Negro schools in Boston to predominantly white schools in the surrounding suburbs. In this evaluation, METCO and…

An investigation was made into the use of project work in management education; it was in three phases--collection of a range of project models, evaluation of a particular type of project (that undertaken on the middle management courses run for the ports industry by three technical colleges and institutes), and recommendations on project…

This handbook is designed as a guide for those who may be involved in the administration or management of pupil transportation in New York State. It is especially geared to central, union free, and city districts under 125,000 population, and is designed to complement other New York State Education Department publications. Guidelines include…

A study outline plan for three different kinds of educational parks--(1) the horizontal type, (2) the vertical type, and (3) the pyramid type is presented. Each is discussed, not as definitive proposals, but rather as a basis for study and discussion. The study was written in the hope that it will stimulate public and professional discussion…

Cooperative Research Project 1605 was concerned with the use of a computer (in the IBM 1620 SPS programing language) in designing school bus routes. This is the concluding report of that project which is here converted into the FORTRAN language. Other objectives were to expand and refine the program, increase its speed, and reduce its costs. The…

This paper was developed by the Liaison Subcommittee of the Traffic Educational and Training Committee to: (1) delineate highway safety manpower and training problems, (2) propose activities to meet these problems, and (3) develop a proposed course of action to initate the activities. Included are: (1) a discussion of areas where manpower…

This study investigated the extent, causes, and means of preventing agricultural tractor accidents. The report includes an estimate of annual tractor-related deaths, an identification of the primary causes of such accidents with consideration of the major hazards causing death or injury, and recommendations or means for preventing the occurrence…

This manual, the third in a series of publications growing out of a pilot project in Extension Transportation Education undertaken at the University of Missouri under contract with the Federal Extension Service, has been prepared primarily for Extension personnel assigned to develop a state level educational program in transportation. It provides…

To document the driving experience of amputees and to test whether amputees differ from non-amputees in the operation of a simulated motor vehicle, related literature was reviewed, a comprehensive study of private motor vehicle operation by amputees was carried out, and 100 persons (20 non-impaired, non-commercial drivers, 20 non-impaired,…

Due to a lack of communication between urban, regional, and transportation planning agencies and air pollution control agencies, cooperative efforts in environmental planning have been nearly non-existent. This traditional lack of communication and understanding serves to obscure the fact that air pollution control agencies and planning agencies…

The General Accounting Office reviewed the overseas dependents school system to determine how schools for children overseas compare with schools in the United States in the areas of teacher salaries, student-teacher ratios, and cost of operations; if costs can be reduced; and whether the Department of Defense is complying with the congressional…