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2010 Conference Program

8th Annual Conference of the International Association for for History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
2-5 December 2010

National Rail Museum, New Delhi, India

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

9.00 – 13.00 Meeting of the Executive Committee of T2M
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 Meeting of the Editorial Board of JTH
16.30 – 17.30 Meeting of the Editorial Board of the T2M Yearbook
18.00 – 19.30 Official Opening of the 8th Annual Conference of T2M

Public Lecture

19.30 Welcome Reception

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

9.00 – 11.00 Wings of Empire: Aviation and development in colonial and post-colonial settings


Peter Lyth
(Chair)

Marc Dierikx

Aviation and post-colonial development, 1945-1970

Teresa Crompton
White Elephant: the Imperial Airship Scheme and the India Route

Railways in Ottoman Empire and Iran

Rajesh Agrawal (Chair)

Szczepan Lemanczyk

The Trans-Iranian Railway – an (un)appropriate technology?

Long Distance Bus Networks

Martin Schiefelbusch (Chair)

Fabio Berio

An alternative path to modernization? The Italian bus network as a substitute of railways and private motorisation (1920-1965)

Daniel Olisa Iweze
“The Impact of lgbo Owned Luxurious Bus Transport Enterprises on the Transformation of Kano Economy Since 1970”

Paulo Guimares
The Peaceful Road to Europe: Migration and the Setting of the Regular long-distance coach lines in the South-western European corridor (1960s-1990s)

11.30 – 13.30 Transport Infrastructures in Transport Museums

Hans-Liudger Dienel

How to display the Haarman Collection of rails: the biggest rail collection in the world

Anne Ebert
Traffic infrastructure in the collections and the permanent exhibition of the Technisches Museum Wien

Atul Singh
Railway infrastructures on display at NRM. What do we teach.

Railways and Economic Growth

Sanjiv Garg (Chair)

Aart Huig
Historical relationship between railway lines and economic growth


Massimo Moraglio

Are indispensable transport developments indispensable? Clues and suggestions from Fogel’s book Railroads and American Economic Growth

Transport in Literature

Steven Spalding (Chair)

Victor Marquez

A Poiesis of Transition: Perception and Ecstasy of In-Between Space in Transportation

Vijaya Singh
The Interiority of the rail compartment in Maheep Singh’s Short Stories

Debabrata Ghosh

The construction and extension of railroads in the Bengal Presidency: The impact of development of Bengali literature

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 19.30 Excursions
19.30 Dinner (included in Excursions)

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

9.00 – 11.30  

Transport Politics

Colin Divall (Chair)

Martin Schiefelbusch Collaboration and common visions in the development of an international rail network in Europe

Di Drummond
British Imperial Narratives of development and progress through rail transportation and indigenous people’s responses in India, Africa and New Zealand, 1850-1939

Kevin Sutton
The heritages of the cross-Alpine transport nets, a geographical contribution to the European geopolitics

Car and the City

Stefan Bauerschmidt (Chair)

Stefan Bauernschmidt
Ford in Inter War Berlin: Ford and the City

Mathieu Flonneau Citroënization” and democratization of the City:
Did a Car-Oriented Policy Planning exist in France
before World War II?

11.45 – 13.45

Railway Tourism
in Western Europe

Kevin Sutton (Chair)

Pieter Francois
British Tourism and the development of a transport infrastructure in Belgium (1815-50)

Ulrich Tiedau

The Vennbahn railway (1882–2001): changeful history of a borderland railway and its role for the identity of the Rhine-Maas Euregio

Marcus Richter and Peter Hörz
Conserved as Technical Monument – Run as a Tourist Attraction: Narrow Gauge Railway in Former GDR

Spaces and Spheres of Public Transport

Vijaya Singh (Chair)

Richard Vahrenkamp “Congestion at the Railway City Terminals”

Hiroki Shin
InterCity: the regeneration of Britain’s railways, 1950s-1970s

Sunandini Basu
The Fourth Place – A Designerly Exploration of the Spaces of Public Transport

Mobility Theory

Christian Chevandier (Chair)

Colin Divall
Narrating a usable past for the future of mobility.

Gijs Mom
Writing a World Mobility History

Susmita Bannerjee
Transportation and sustainable Development

13.45 – 14.45 Lunch
14.45 – 16.45

Railroad Services

Hiroki Shin (Chair)

Christian Chevandier
Railways: the Making of the French Working Class

Sigit Priyanto
Comparison of train passenger services between  pt. kereta api indonesia and  statens järnvägar ab, sweden

Alfred Gottwald

The Role of German State Railways during the Annihilation of the European Jewry, 1941 – 1945.

Road Transport

Richard Vahrenkamp (Chair)

Daniel Olisa Iweze
The role of road transport on the urbanisation of Asaba, 1991-1996

Oladip O. Olubomehin

Road transportation as lifeline of the economy in south western nigeria, 1919-1952

Jon Gulowsen
The history of transport in Europe’s periphery. The case of Norway

World’s Transportation Networks

Gijs Mom (Chair)

Ralf Roth
The World’s Railways. Did they really form a world network?

Lewis R. Fischer
The World’s Network: International Shipping since the 16th Century

Peter Lyth
Inexorable growth: 90 years of global air transport

Bruce E. Seely
Roads that Connect Continents: The Pan-American Highway

17.00 – 18.30 Annual Meeting of T2M
20.00 – 23.00 Banquet

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

9.00 – 10.30

Transport before the Railways

Nanny Kim (Chair)

Alexandra Bekasowa
The Making of National Bonds:
Transportation of Money, Goods, and Passengers in Imperial Russia before the Railroad Age

Farhad Eftekharzadeh


Iranian Caravansarais from the ancient times to the present

Bicycles

Anne Ebert (Chair)

Zhang Rui , WU Haiyan and

YANG Jing
A study on the effect of bicycle & ride policy on cyclists with an ordered logit model

Martin Emanuel
On a Detour: Changing Conditions for Bicycle Traffic in Stockholm and Copenhagen 1930–70

 
11.00 – 13.00

Public Transport in Megacities

Massimo Moraglio (Chair)

Anupama Mann

“The relationship between sociopolitical environment and project attributes in urban public transport projects: A study of the metro rail and bus rapid transit project in Delhi


Effects of New Vehicles

Mathieu Flonneau (Chair)

Thomas Birtchnell

High Ambitions: India’s Top-Heavy Vehicles as Grassroots Innovation

Joergen Burchardt
Economic effects of new transport technologies Examples from the introduction of new trucks, goods handling tools, packaging and organizational changes, 1950-1980

 
13.15 – 13.45 Plenary Lecture
13.45 – 14.15 Feedback
14.15 Farewell lunch box