Wissensproduktion in der Verkehrsplanung: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Desinformation und multiplen Wahrheiten?
| Project name: | Wissensproduktion in der Verkehrsplanung: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Desinformation und multiplen Wahrheiten? (Knowledge Production in Transportation Planning: Between Disinformation and Multiple Truths?) |
| Head of the project: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Bruns Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Wenner |
| Duration: | 01.01.2026 - 31.12.2026 |
| Project participants: | M.Eng. Jana Busse |
| Funding institution or client: | Hochschule RheinMain – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSRM) - Strategic research funding (research group funding line) |
Project description
The mobility turnaround as part of a socio-ecological transformation requires active social design. Transport planning is a central control process in which the fundamental course for future mobility is set. Communication plays a key role here, as it enables both information processing and conflict resolution and contributes significantly to the legitimization of planning decisions.
At the same time, an increasing threat to democratic processes through the deliberate dissemination of disinformation and misinformation has been perceived in recent years. In transport planning negotiation processes, different forms of knowledge and truth claims come together - from scientifically based expertise to subjective experiences and emotionally bound local references. This diversity generates "multiple truths" that cannot be easily hierarchized.
The research project investigates the role of disinformation in transport planning negotiation processes and how it can be distinguished from legitimate knowledge diversity. Based on qualitative-interpretative case studies in municipal transport planning processes, conflicts over knowledge, truth and interpretative sovereignty are empirically analyzed and theoretically linked back.
The goal of the project is to develop a differentiated understanding of disinformation in the context of transport planning, to derive practical approaches for action and to provide impulses for an epistemically just planning culture.
