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JB
2009/5/8 Steve Melia <[log in to unmask]>:
> To what extent, and under what circumstances, can experience observed in
> one country or culture be transferred to another?
>
> A lot of transport (and other built environment) research tends to "look across
> the fence" usually for better practice to be emulated, sometimes for worse
> practice to be avoided. But how do we know whether something which works
> in one country, will work in the same way somewhere else?
>
> Most researchers (and others) who take this approach either:
>
> a) assume that something will work in the same way, or:
> b) argue that it won't work (or will work differently) because of some
> contextual differences
>
> In both cases, the writers seem to make up their own criteria for arguing
> either a) or b). I have never come across any general theory, or even rule-of-
> thumb criteria for assessing how experience might transfer across countries or
> cultures.
>
> Has anyone come across anything relevant to this?
>
> Steve Melia
> University of the West of England
>
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