ABSTRACT

Mundane transport practices are implicated in a series of global harms, including those associated with climate change. Most agree that the way we travel day-to-day needs to shift. While agreement on the end goal is common, informing and enacting policies to implement change is an ongoing challenge, in part because of the sheer complexity of factors shaping the way we travel. Transport researchers need to develop an understanding of this complexity that is easily and elegantly translated into transport policy. Practice theory has potential to contribute to such understandings, and this paper provides a review of the ways it has been employed in contemporary transport research. Using a review of 38 studies, the paper highlights the benefits of the practice theory approach for research, and the applicability of the insights it generates for real world transport problems. The paper concludes that practice theory brings useful tools and concepts to understand both the complexity of transport, and the interplay between structure and the travelling agent, that is so often missed by traditional transport methodologies. In this way, it can, and does, add to the already well theorised and empiricised realm of transport studies. The approach, however, requires careful operationalisation and further development to fulfil its potential to produce research insights to capable of informing the urgent need to shift the way that we travel.

摘要

普通的交通方式与一系列全球危害有关，包括与气候变化相关的危害。大多数人同意我们日常旅行的方式需要改变。虽然就最终目标达成一致是常见的，但通知和制定实施变革的政策是一项持续的挑战，部分原因是影响我们旅行方式的因素的复杂性。交通研究人员需要了解这种复杂性，以便轻松而优雅地转化为交通政策。实践理论有可能促进这种理解，本文回顾了它在当代交通研究中的应用方式。通过对 38 项研究的回顾，该论文强调了实践理论方法对研究的好处，以及它所产生的洞察力对现实世界交通问题的适用性。本文得出结论，实践理论为理解运输的复杂性以及结构与旅行代理人之间的相互作用带来了有用的工具和概念，这是传统运输方法经常忽略的。通过这种方式，它可以并且确实增加了已经充分理论化和经验化的交通研究领域。然而，该方法需要仔细操作和进一步开发，以发挥其产生研究见解的潜力，从而能够满足改变我们旅行方式的迫切需求。传统的运输方法经常忽略这一点。通过这种方式，它可以并且确实增加了已经充分理论化和经验化的交通研究领域。然而，该方法需要仔细操作和进一步开发，以发挥其产生研究见解的潜力，从而能够满足改变我们旅行方式的迫切需求。传统的运输方法经常忽略这一点。通过这种方式，它可以并且确实增加了已经充分理论化和经验化的交通研究领域。然而，该方法需要仔细操作和进一步开发，以发挥其产生研究见解的潜力，从而能够满足改变我们旅行方式的迫切需求。