Social Aspects of Transport: How to Use Social Research in Transport Policy Making. The Proceedings of a conference held at West Dean, Chichester, 14-17 September 1980

摘要

Delegates to the conference discussed a methodology of forecasting which emphasized five principles for practical research into transport planning. It was agreed that transport research should not only take account of access and mobility, but also their interaction with social structure and employment, because industrial societies seemed to create an ever-increasing demand for daily mobility. French researchers, as opposed to those in Germany or the UK., were particularly concerned with opening up new areas for investigation, recognizing that transport problems were part of a wider set of social problems, and that psychological and sociological factors should be included in studies on mobility.