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the hidden motives of automobility
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"AvD. We'll always find a way"
The Institute for Traffic Sociology at AvD and its work
TU München
June 21, 2009
Alfred Fuhr
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
We are constantly confronted with bad news about traffic
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
We are constantly confronted with bad news about traffic
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
We are constantly confronted with traffic jam solutions
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
A new traffic jam phenomenon in Germany, and a form of mobility which has nothing to do with moving from A to B
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Early traffic science: measuring drivers' behaviour
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Homo sapiens and the love affair with his car
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Media comments about traffic, about trends & paradoxes
Traffic sociologists at work
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Risk assessment for media
Using literature, studies, statistics & evaluations
analyses of driving & in-car behaviour, accidents etc.
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Information agency for clients and partners
Institute for Traffic sociology
Some of our publications:
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Institute for Traffic sociology
collecting & evaluating data for studies on traffic, technology and target group behaviour
user-oriented sociological researchstudies, statistics & evaluationsreconstructions of motives: Automobile Habitusunderstanding customers' strategies
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Traffic sociology and medicine
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
The role of AvD has changed over the years
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
We organize vintage car races and other events
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
The chauffeur licence first issued by AvD was the forerunner of our modern drivers licences
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Accidents have always been a normal hazard for drivers
postcard printed for his survivors
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Nowhere has the car had a more profound impact than in the United States, where the modern system of automobility was pioneered
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
the struggle between tough guys and pretty boys
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Nowhere has the car had a more profound impact than in the United States, where the modern system of automobility was pioneered
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Nowhere has the car had a more profound impact than in the United States, where the modern system of automobility was pioneered
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
the struggle between tough guys and pretty boys
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Risk assessment
Ulrich Beck:
Risk assesment cannot be scruitinised in isolation by just one discipline; it cannot be developed and pinned down by just one set of rationality
Risk assesment is a symbiosis that has not yet been fully recognized!
Pierre Bourdieu:
Researcher takes on the perspectives of his research subject as well as that of the observer.
Some basic theories used in traffic sociology
Habitus
combines: the objective study of the world with reflexive knowledge of the subject(s) of the study
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Mao Tse Tung
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
An ambivalence between fascination and disgust has accompanied the motor car from is early days to our time
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Automobility is a human evolutionary strategy. Its symbol has evolved from a fiction of "divine horseless carriages" to the car
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Automobility is a human evolutionary strategy. Its symbol has evolved from a fiction of "divine horseless carriages" to the modern "connected" car
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
SENSO CAR (Rinspeed)
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Toyota pod passenger cabin recognises how you feel today
"AvD. We'll always find a way"
Risky traffic communication between two men and a woman
