Application of Human Sciences in Transport Research

Aplikace humanitnich ved v dopravnim vyzkumu

The aim of this research programme within the newly built centre is the generation of knowledge, its comparison and interpretation, development and use of new methods leading to sociological identification of mobility, accessibility, social exclusion due to transport as well as personalities of road users and individual accident psychological and social aspects in transport. It is a well known fact that the growing mobility of population brings about a range of problems concerning the environment, health, and quality of life. The individual car transport devastates urban environment and uses valuable land, the induced urban sprawl damages the landscape, high road accident rate results in life losses and damage of health. Purely technical measures in transport are costly and have their limits. Thus, we also have to deal with these problems from human viewpoint which is helped by an analysis with the use of transport sociology. The complex synergy of human fields – psychology, education science, sociology, and engineering science brings a new perspective of transport and its relation to the life quality of population with the emphasis on obtaining knowledge on mobility of people and groups, traffic behaviour, and traffic safety. We expect to reduce road accident rate and impact on the environment, and improve the life quality of urban as well as rural population.

• Authors:
  • STRNADOVA, Z
  • DRAPELA, E
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• Czech

Media Info

• Serial:
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TRANSPORT R&D CENTRE CDV PLUS: PROCEEDINGS
  • Publisher: Transport Research Centre (CDV)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Environmental protection; Human factors; Mobility; Psychological aspects; Safety; Sociology; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Increase
• Geographic Terms: Czech Republic
• ITRD Terms: 1612: Accident rate; 8158: Czech Republic; 2444: Environment protection; 2257: Human factor; 9032: Increase; 9105: Mobility (pers); 2256: Psychological aspects; 1665: Safety; 2253: Sociology; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01356121
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Centre (CDV)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Oct 31 2011 10:55AM