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- Title
Skotovoz, pripiski and the "law of labour settlement": Transportation planning and management in the USSR.
- Authors
Muleev, Egor
- Abstract
Transport specialists in the USSR persistently called for mathematical expressions of fundamental laws in urban transportation, to assist the development of efficient transportation systems. However, the specificity of the planned economy meant that these appeals did not receive substantial financial support. In response to challenges such as falsified data and political interference, practitioners developed an "imaginative" approach based on intuition, tradition and experience. Analysis of academic literature written in Russian, archival sources and new data gained from interviews shows that the demand for quantitative methods was a bureaucratic response to the uncertainties of public transport administration, while planning documents functioned as leverage in political bargaining for resources. In practice, urban transport planners and transport company employees relied on their own creativity and innovation to compensate for pervasive resource and methodological deficits.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; TRANSPORTATION planning; TRANSPORTATION management; LABOR laws; URBAN transportation; PUBLIC transit; IMAGINATION; TRIZ theory; BARGAINING power
- Publication
Journal of Transport History, 2024, Vol 45, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
0022-5266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00225266231225107