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 |
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 Paulo Guimares
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| 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 Atul Singh |
Railways and Economic Growth
Sanjiv Garg (Chair) |
Transport in Literature
Steven Spalding (Chair) Victor Marquez A Poiesis of Transition: Perception and Ecstasy of In-Between Space in Transportation Vijaya Singh Debabrata Ghosh |
| 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 Kevin Sutton |
Car and the City Stefan Bauerschmidt (Chair) Stefan Bauernschmidt Mathieu Flonneau Citroënization” and democratization of the City: |
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| 11.45 – 13.45 |
Railway Tourism Kevin Sutton (Chair) Pieter Francois 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
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Spaces and Spheres of Public Transport Vijaya Singh (Chair) Richard Vahrenkamp “Congestion at the Railway City Terminals” Hiroki Shin Sunandini Basu |
Mobility Theory Christian Chevandier (Chair) Colin Divall Gijs Mom Susmita Bannerjee |
| 13.45 – 14.45 | Lunch | ||
| 14.45 – 16.45 |
Railroad Services Hiroki Shin (Chair) Christian Chevandier Sigit Priyanto 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 Oladip O. Olubomehin Road transportation as lifeline of the economy in south western nigeria, 1919-1952 |
World’s Transportation Networks Gijs Mom (Chair) Ralf Roth Lewis R. Fischer Peter Lyth Bruce E. Seely |
| 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 Farhad Eftekharzadeh |
Bicycles Anne Ebert (Chair) Zhang Rui , WU Haiyan and YANG Jing Martin Emanuel |
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| 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
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Effects of New Vehicles Mathieu Flonneau (Chair) Thomas Birtchnell High Ambitions: India’s Top-Heavy Vehicles as Grassroots Innovation Joergen Burchardt
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| 13.15 – 13.45 | Plenary Lecture | ||
| 13.45 – 14.15 | Feedback | ||
| 14.15 | Farewell lunch box | ||