Historical Fundaments of the Mobile Society: Path (Inter-) Dependencies in Traffic Management and Information Systems

移动社会的历史基础：交通管理和信息系统中的路径（相互）依赖性

• 批准号: 428256654
• 负责人: Privatdozent Dr. Christian Franke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Bereich Plurale Ökonomik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/428256654?language=en
• 关键词: Historical; Fundaments; Mobile; Society; Path

The modern Europeans are mobile: they use different modes of transport to reach the most diverse destinations, use their mobile phones and communicate and obtain information whenever and wherever it is necessary or possible. Intermodal transport systems make even the most remote places accessible at any time, similar to one’s own local environment, and enable global connectivity even with distant production sites and trading centers. At the same time, the mobile Europeans are experiencing their immobility every day – whether caused by traffic jams or traffic disruptions. Reducing immobility, therefore, has been a central scientific and social challenge since the beginning of mass mobility in the 1960s. Traffic management and information systems in cars and ships, for whose operation broadcasters, policy makers, engineers and traffic scientists work closely together, are designed to improve and optimize traffic flows and rhythms. These systems, such as traffic radio, the Traffic Message Channel or radiotelephone services on inland waterways, are all the results of (interdependent) long-term technological, institutional and media developments. The project will investigate the operating conditions of mobile societies by focusing on path (inter-)dependencies in the development of traffic management and information systems from the 1980s onward. Such systems offer an excellent opportunity to analyze the mobile society because modern transport systems are a way of life which has redefined ‘movement’ in the history of mankind. They are a symbol of the mobile societies’ tensions between mobility and immobility. A set of interrelated questions guides the project: How does the mobile society work? How can we explain mobilities and immobilities on the mobile societies’ transport networks? How are sociotechnical systems for a mass mobile society planned, designed and implemented? What were the reasons for a realization or non-realization of traffic management and information systems and some of its components? How do different technical, institutional and medial components match each other? Using a novel model of path (inter-)dependencies, which interrelates technical, institutional and medial paths, will enable us to understand the underlying logics of the mobile society. It will demonstrate the complex interactions of institutional, technical and medial components in the historical development of the mobile societies’ and its attempts at managing mobilities and immobilities on the transport networks (road and inland navigation). The results of the project will be summarized in a monograph.

现代欧洲人是移动的：他们使用不同的交通方式到达最多样化的目的地，使用他们的移动的电话，在任何必要或可能的时候和任何地方进行通信和获取信息。多式联运系统使即使是最偏远的地方也能随时进入，与当地环境相似，并使即使是遥远的生产基地和贸易中心也能实现全球连通。与此同时，移动的欧洲人每天都在经历他们的不动--无论是由交通堵塞还是交通中断造成的。因此，自20世纪60年代大规模流动开始以来，减少不流动性一直是科学和社会的核心挑战。汽车和船舶的交通管理和信息系统，广播公司，政策制定者，工程师和交通科学家密切合作，旨在改善和优化交通流量和节奏。这些系统，如交通无线电、交通信息频道或内陆水道上的无线电话服务，都是（相互依存的）长期技术、体制和媒体发展的结果。该项目将调查移动的社会的运作条件，重点是从20世纪80年代起交通管理和信息系统发展的路径（相互）依赖性。这样的系统提供了一个很好的机会来分析移动的社会，因为现代交通系统是一种生活方式，它重新定义了人类历史上的“运动”。它们象征着移动的社会在流动性和不流动性之间的紧张关系。一系列相互关联的问题指导着这个项目：移动的社会是如何运作的？我们如何解释移动的社会的交通网络的移动性和不移动性？如何规划、设计和实施大规模移动的社会的社会技术系统？交通管理和信息系统及其某些组成部分实现或不实现的原因是什么？不同的技术、机构和医疗组件如何相互匹配？使用一种新的路径（相互）依赖模型，将技术，制度和媒介路径相互关联，将使我们能够理解移动的社会的基本逻辑。它将展示在移动的社会的历史发展过程中，体制、技术和医疗组成部分之间的复杂互动，以及在管理运输网络（公路和内河航运）的流动性和不流动性方面的尝试。该项目的结果将在一本专著中加以总结。