By Peter Frank Peters
In social idea and sociology, time and go back and forth in technological cultures is without doubt one of the new and demanding study issues within the 'mobilities turn'. but strangely, modern practices of mobility have until eventually now, obvious in simple terms restricted theorization inside those disciplines. through examining old and contextualized transit practices, this revealing booklet argues that shuttle can't now easily be decreased to getting from A to B; it really is an built-in a part of daily life.
In this region, learning how difficulties will be pointed out as dilemmas and reformulated as layout difficulties is helping create a brand new vocabulary; one that won't purely switch the time table within the debate on mobility difficulties within the public area, yet also will recommend new methods of theorizing mobility strategies. during this attention-grabbing e-book, writer Peters:
- develops a conceptual framework to review modern transit practices and review innovation strategies
- gives new insights relating to historical and modern layout thoughts and concerning options relating to shuttle in technological cultures
- gives exact realization to digital timespaces and ICT dependent mobility innovations
- investigates circumstances of go back and forth in technological cultures, motor vehicle commute, air commute, and biking in Dutch towns.
An unique and provocative contribution to the rising box of mobilities, this publication turns into a necessary source for complicated undergraduate, post-graduate, researchers and practitioners within the fields of sociology, geography, spatial making plans, coverage and transportation studies.
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Speed is a dominant and pervasive value in Western culture. 2 In this chapter, I analyse speed in relation to travel and different notions of travel time. Speed and slowness are relational concepts. They have no meaning in themselves, but derive meaning from how they relate two or more phenomena, such as two different ways of travelling. Speed and slowness appear in commonplace accounts about modern mobility as means of describing experiences and problems. The delayed train, the racing cycle boasting 21 speeds, the tranquillity of a Sunday walk in the forest and the dynamics of a flight all cannot be understood without making reference to the speed or slowness of the movement.
Technicians controlled the traffic from high towers and pear-shaped vehicles reached speeds of 150 mph (Nye 1994: 217). The image of the future that General Motors presented was optimistic, if not utopian. Travelling at higher speeds, without being obstructed by traffic jams, was seen as a condition for a modern, individualist world in which people could determine for themselves when and where they wanted to be. The acceleration of travel was presented not only as a fact, but also as a desirable societal value.
The utility of the travel time is a combination of the intrinsic utility of the journey itself and its derived utility (Sharp 1981). In welfare economic theory, it is assumed that individuals experience maximum utility from the way they spend their time, and are only willing to deviate from this when they are compensated (financially or in terms of comfort). The key assumption underlying this kind of economic modelling of travel time is that the marginal utility of travel time is usually given a negative value: utility can be maximized at B and not at A, and the more time it takes to get to B, the less time is left for the preferred activity.