Alfred Fuhr Tu MüNchen

"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 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 research studies, statistics & evaluations reconstructions of motives: Automobile Habitus understanding 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" 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" 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" the struggle between tough guys and pretty boys

"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" 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" 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

Alfred Fuhr Tu MüNchen

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