ACCESSIBILITY IN PRODUCTION NETWORKS: TOWARDS AN ORGANISATIONAL CONCEPT
BURMEISTER
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
BURMEISTER
Résumé / Abstract
'ACCESSIBILITY' IS A WELL-KNOWN CONCEPT IN TRANSPORT ECONOMICS, COMMONLY USED IN THE EVALUATION OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND NEW INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PAPER IS TO SHOW THE LIMITS OF THIS CONCEPT AS A TOOL FOR ANALYSING THE EFFICIENCY OF CIRCULATION IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS. WE SHOW THAT THE CONCEPT IS EITHER EXPLICITLY OR IMPLICITLY BASED ON THE NEO-CLASSICAL FRAMEWORK IN ECONOMICS AND CONCEPTUALISED AS THE COST OR DISUTILITY OF DISTANCE. ACCESSIBILITY, IN THIS SPATIAL SENSE, IS LESS AND LESS RELEVANT, ESPECIALLY IN JUST-IN TIME PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND IN IMMATERIAL INTERACTIONS. CIRCULATION OF GOODS AND INFORMATIONS IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IS MORE INFLUENCED BY ORGANISATIONAL THAN BY SPATIAL DIMENSIONS. WE WILL EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF INTRODUCING THE HETERODOX CONCEPTUALISATION OF SPACE AND PROXIMITY INTO THE MEASUREMENT OF ACCESSIBILITY AND DEVELOP SOME OF ORGANIATIONAL DIMENSIONS, SUCH AS FLEXIBILITY, RELIABILITY, CONTROL AND ADAPTATION OF CIRCULATION TO PRODUCTION RHYTHMS.
