Effects of the automobile on societies

The traffic sociology or sociological traffic research has the spatially mobile social subject ( cf. actor ) to the starting point. Her research areas include the traffic behavior or act - and the importance of norms and values ​​associated with different traffic purposes ( for example, job and leisure traffic ) and aspects (eg the choice of transport mode ).

Until the 1980s, the traffic sociology had rather plays the role of an auxiliary science for transport research. Mainly it was engaged in the provision of behavioral data for traffic planning. Independently developed research and social science guided design recommendations for transport policy objective of this sociological work area only since the 1990s.