Regulation, Repair, and Transportation Infrastructure

监管、维修和交通基础设施

• 批准号: 1945762
• 负责人: Lori Leonard
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1945762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Regulation; Repair; Transportation; Infrastructure

Drawing on insights from the fields of information science and human-computer interactions, supply chain analysis, and science and technology studies, this project asks how processes of valuation are prioritized or achieved in a single niche secondary market, the used vehicle. The researcher traces the socio-material assemblages and forms of valuation that come together around the purchase, process, maintenance, and repair of vehicles through the exploration of two supply chains for automobiles in differing regulatory contexts. Data from this project will be disseminated to enhance understanding of science and the scientific method among researchers, planners, and public officials engaged in reconciling the demands of effective transportation infrastructures with concerns about public safety and affordability. The project also provides training for undergraduate students in methods of rigorous, scientific data collection and analysis, through summer internships and mentored research experiences.This project explores what values, for reliable transportation, public and road safety, occupational health, and environmental protections, are prioritized and achieved along supply chains and in moments of breakdown and repair. The project follows the supply chains and circulation of vehicles in two contexts, each which regulate imports differently, have varied inventories, supply chains, and regimes of maintenance and repair. Ethnographic methods of shadowing and interviewing will be used to examine the assemblages that keep vehicles on the road as well as the socio-material constraints to doing so, asking what factors (such as differences in regulatory and repair regimes, creativity and innovation in repair and maintenance) contribute to variability of market behavior and the economic viability of these secondary markets. This project approaches the question of value in an open-ended manner, by examining ongoing processes of valuation as they occur along supply chains and during moments of breakdown and repair. Findings from the project will improve economic anthropological and sociological understandings of maintenance and repair networks and processes, planned obsolescence practices, recycling, and the workings of the circular economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个项目借鉴了信息科学和人机交互、供应链分析和科学技术研究等领域的见解，询问如何在单一的利基二级市场--二手车--确定估值过程的优先顺序或实现这一过程。研究人员通过探索不同监管背景下的两条汽车供应链，追溯了围绕车辆购买、加工、维护和维修的社会物质组合和估值形式。该项目的数据将被传播，以增进研究人员、规划者和公职人员对科学和科学方法的理解，他们致力于协调有效交通基础设施的需求与对公共安全和负担能力的担忧。该项目还通过暑期实习和有指导的研究经验，为本科生提供严格、科学的数据收集和分析方法的培训。该项目探索在供应链以及故障和维修时刻，对可靠的交通、公共和道路安全、职业健康和环境保护来说，哪些价值是优先考虑和实现的。该项目在两种情况下跟踪车辆的供应链和流通，每种情况下对进口进行不同的监管，拥有不同的库存、供应链和维护和维修制度。将使用民族志跟踪和访谈方法来检查使车辆保持在道路上的组装以及这样做的社会物质限制，询问哪些因素(如监管和维修制度的差异、维修和维护方面的创造力和创新)有助于市场行为的可变性和这些二级市场的经济生存能力。这个项目以一种开放式的方式处理价值问题，在供应链沿线以及在故障和维修期间审查正在进行的估值过程。该项目的发现将提高经济人类学和社会学对维护和维修网络和流程、计划淘汰做法、回收和循环经济运作的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。