| Titre | Car traffic at the crossroads: new technologies for cars, traffic systems, and their interlocking | |
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| Auteur | Reiner Grundmann | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 17, juillet-septembre 1994 | |
| Page | 19-32 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article examines the existing literature on large technical systems (LTS) and tries to apply some findings to the development of the car-traffic-system. Since there exists no study from scholars working in this field, I shall first present some theoretical elaborations from the LTS- discourse which offer defintions, properties and dynamics of large technical systems. Then I try to apply these to the car-traffic-systems, asking in what sense this system will undergo a radical reconfiguration. Therefore, I discuss three cases of empirical material: different systems of motive power, transit systems and attempts at automation via electronic road management. Several theoretical models are tried out: the system-builder-approach by Thomas Hughes, the interorganisatorical network approach by Bernward Joerges and the actor network approach by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1994_num_10_17_992 |
