Which activities are necessary in order to prepare and to accompany traffic planning and technical transport measures, and what support from the social scientific side is needed in this respect?
Example no. 1 Arguments for 30 km/h-speed limits to be implemented: What arguments, next to those from a traffic engineering standpoint, are there from a social-scientific perspective?
Example no. 2: What measures have to be taken so that car drivers or their representatives will accept the implementation of 30 km/h-speed limits?

Social scientific research, methods and perspectives in connection with traffic and transport will be presented. Relevant theories and relevance to practice will be emphasized. Two aspects are, among others, most interesting for the transport/traffic planner: 1. The criteria for setting measures and their respective goals, and 2. the question of acceptance. The first aspect will be discussed along with human needs and motivates, analysing how transport scientific research and the resulting transport practice caters to these needs and motivations. To that effect, it should not be overlooked that particular groups in society, (i.e. children and the elderly) have few possibilities to make their cases for mobility in the public arena: it is among other things, the responsibility of science to determine whether the interests of such disadvantaged groups are wholly considered in transport research and practice. Furthermore, the conflict of interests between various groups will be fully discussed as well as the expectations as to how solutions to such conflicts could be found. The contents of the second aspect are closely related as to how the effects of specific measures in relation to wishes and needs interact: the problems of acceptance is also given for the case that affected groups sense that a specific measure does not consider their specific interests appropriatly.

Die LVA wird im WS 2012/13 nicht abgehalten.

schriftliche Prüfung

Interesse an der gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der eigenen Forschungs- und Arbeitsdisziplin