Managing traffic complexity. Canadian transport planning software package Emme, 1970s–2010s
| Autor: | Konstantinos Chatzis |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS), École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Gustave Eiffel |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050210 logistics & transportation
History Transportation planning Computer science business.industry 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Transportation Proprietary software 06 humanities and the arts Grey literature Software package Variety (cybernetics) 060104 history Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0502 economics and business 0601 history and archaeology Software engineering business [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Transport History Journal of Transport History, Manchester University Press, 2021, 42 (3), pp.444-466. ⟨10.1177/00225266211005753⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0022-5266 |
| Popis: | International audience; Based on a variety of primary sources, ranging from academic publications to grey literature to interviews, this article tells the story of Emme, a traffic forecasting software package. Designed as a prototype within the University of Montreal in the late 1970s/early 1980s and regularly enhanced by the Canadian firm INRO since then, Emme has been massively used as a commercial product for urban transport planning throughout the world. Bringing to the fore a much neglected, albeit crucial, theme in transport and mobility studies, i.e., the various mathematical tools (models) – and the actors involved in their production – conceived and utilized for designing transport infrastructures and mobility programs and policies, this article may also be of interest to scholars working in fields other than transport and interested in a series of topics ranging from the increasing commercialization of academic knowledge to the organization of knowledge intensive firms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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