2006 Conference Program
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Opening Plenary Session Philippe Courtier, Director of the Ecole des ponts Armel de la Bourdonnaye, Research Department Director, Ecole des ponts |
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Speaker: Karen Bowie (Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles) |
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Plenary Session |
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Futures of the Road, Round Table Organized by Michel Savy (Université Paris 12), Leader of the French Road Association (URF) Think Tank |
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With Patrick Fridenson (EHESS), Pascal Griset (Université Paris 4), Jean-François Gruson (Assistant Director for the Economic Studies, Institut Français du Pétrole), Jean-François Langumier (Prospective and Sustainable Development Manager, Autoroutes Paris Rhin Rhône), Gijs Mom (TU Eindhoven), Jean-Jacques Payan (Research Manager for the Vehicle of the Future, Renault), Antoine Picon (Harvard University) |
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Thinking of publishing with the Journal of Transport History?, discussion with the JTH Editorial Board moderated by Colin Divall |
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Concluding remarks by Vanessa Schwartz (University of Southern California) and Vincent Kaufmann (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Evaluation of the conference. |
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A T2M History Public History (I) |
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CHAIR Ralf Roth (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main) Marie-Noëlle Polino (AHICF, Paris) -AHICF 20th Anniversary: an Assessment Paul Van Heesvelde (Université Libre de Bruxelles) -The long and winding Road. Transport Museums and Railway Heritage in Belgium 1950-2000 Stephanie von Erlach (SBB Historic, Stiftung Historisches Erbe der SBB) -SBB Historic, a new Foundation for the Railway Past and Future Francisco Polo Muriel (Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles) -The Experience of the Spanish Railways Foundation |
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B Framing Road Safety in France |
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CHAIR Gabriel Dupuy (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Dominique Linhardt (CSI Ecole des Mines, Paris) -The Problem of the Problem of Road Safety in France since 1970 Hélène Reigner (INRETS, Marseille-Salon de Provence) -The “Territorialisation” of the Road Safety: Towards a Change of Frame? Dominique Fleury (INRETS, Marseille-Salon de Provence) -Integrating Road Safety in Local Public Action: the Search for Coherence between Space and Network |
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C «Longue Durée» and Road History |
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CHAIR Pascal Griset (Université Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne) Abdulhamit Kirmizi (Boğaziçi University) -Routes and Itineraries of Provincial Officials in the Late Ottoman Empire Gordon Pirie (University of the Western Cape) -Roadmaking in colonial Africa, 1900-1939 Jørgen Burchardt (Danish Road and Bridge Museum) -Why economical Driving of Motor Vehicles is always prohibited. The Technology of Roads and Means of Transport in interaction with the Public Investments in Traffic from 1890-2006 |
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D History, Environment and Mobility |
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CHAIR Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud (EHESS, Paris) Sabine Barles (Institut Français d’Urbanisme, Université de Paris |
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A Aerial Mobility, Risks and Safety (Round Table) |
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CHAIR Patrice Bret (CHEAr) Marie Thébaud-Sorger (EHESS, Paris) -The aerial Conquest and its Risks: the Role of History in the Construction of Cultural Categories of aerial Mobility at the end of the XIXth century Maryse Lassalle (Epistémé, Bordeaux) -The Role played by free Balloons and Airships in the Birth of air Law |
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Luc Robène (Université Rennes 2) -Ballooning and Sport Flying at the Turn of the Century (19th-20th): how to manage a «Safety-performance»? Thierry Le Roy (Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient) -The first French Aviators (1910-1914): Dare-devil Pioneers, Sportsmen or true Professionals? Nathalie Roseau (LATTS Ecole des ponts) -From individual Exploits to collective Dreams: |
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the urban Imaginary of aerial Mobility from 1909-1930 |
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B History, Safety and the Law |
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CHAIR Anne-Françoise Garçon (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
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Anne Conchon (IDHE Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) -“Police du roulage” in eighteenth century France Jean Orselli (Ministère des Transports, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) -Road Safety and the Emergence of the French « Code de la route » Donald Weber (Amsab Institute of Social History) -Cyclism, Automobilism and the Struggle for the Public Road: the First Belgian Traffic Law of 1899 |
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C Expertise and Urban Planning |
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CHAIR Jean-Marc Offner (LATTS Ecole des ponts) Sébastien Gardon, (RIVES Sciences Po Lyon), Stève Bernardin, (RIVES Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) -When Traffic Engineers and urban Planners meet: a Search for Transnational Exchanges during the interwar Period Martin Emanuel (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) -A spectacular Miscalculation – changing Conceptions of Bicycle Traffic in Stockholm and Copenhagen 1940-60 Konstantinos Chatzis, Gilles Crague (LATTS Ecole des ponts) -State and engineering Consultant Offices Involvement in Travel Demand Modelling in France, 1960-2005: Transformation of an Expertise Area Per Lundin (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) -Mediators of Modernity: City Planning Expertise in Postwar Western Europe |
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D Objects, History and Mobility |
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CHAIR Bruno Latour (Sciences Po Paris) Arthur Donovan (United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York) -Fifty Years of Cargo Containerization and Intermodalism – Innovations that Transformed How General Freight is Packed and Moved Worldwide Robin Foot (LATTS Ecole des ponts) -The intrigante Disappearance of the Tram of the Highway Code in France Vittorio Marchis, Filippo Nieddu (Politecnico di Torino) -Alberto Morelli: the Mobility Vision |
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E nternational Perspectives in Railway History (I) |
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CHAIR Jeff Schramm (University of Missouri) Daniel Seidenglanz (Masaryk University, Brno) -International Railway Transport in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (the Influence of political, social and technological Factors) Martin Kvizda (Masaryk University, Brno) -The influence of the History of establishing Czech Railways on their present-day economic Efficiency |
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Tom Cornillie (University of Illinois) Keith Harcourt (International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies) -Pre-war Technology Transfer in US and UK Railway Freight Handling |
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A Car Driving and Social Conflict |
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CHAIR Frédéric Abécassis (ENS LSH, Lyon) Didier Nourrisson (IUFM, Saint-Etienne) -Educational Films during the « Trente Glorieuses » (the thirty-year boom period after World War II): The Ideology of Progress and the social Virtue Camille Picard (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) -Prevention Campaigns (1970-2000): From the educational Project to the social Oppression of Death Delphine Blanco (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) -Car Advertisements (1971-2005): the invariant of Power and the Progressive Suppression of the social Issues Philippe Tastevin (CEDEJ, Le Caire) -The Car-possession Conflicts in the small Nile Delta Cities (2000-2005) Frédéric Abecassis (ENS, LSH, Lyon) -« Fatalistic » Driving and social Protest in Cairo Marie Vogel (ENS LSH, Lyon) -Civilizing the Roads in France during the «Trente Glorieuses»: Police Conception of the Road Rules in the rural and urban Areas |
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B ( Politics and Technocracy :Big Roads Projects in XXth Century US and Germany |
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CHAIR Raymond Mohl (University of Alabama, Birmingham) Michael R. Fein (Babson College) -Tunnel Vision: The ‘Big Dig,’ Invisible Highways, and the Politics of Planning Alexander Gall (Deutsches Museum München) -Science rather than Politics? Highway Planning under West German Federalism (1967-1975) Thomas Zeller (University of Maryland) -Consuming Landscapes: Parkways in Germany and the United States, 1920-1970 Elihu Rubin (University of California, Berkeley) -Interchange: Highways and Displacement in the Postwar American City |
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C Gender and Mobility |
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CHAIR Vanessa Schwartz (University of Southern California) Markus Nöhl (Universität Trier) -‘Frauen und Technik’ – The Construction of Gender Stereotypes in Automobile Cartoons of the 1950s and 1960s Diane Drummond (Trinity and All Saint‘s College, Leeds) -Women, Railway Safety and the Sustainability of Railway Transportation in the USA and Britain during the nineteenth century Maggie Walsh (University of Nottingham) -Gendering Mobility: Women and the Route to Automobile Equality in the United States |
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D Safety, Urbanism and Sustainable Mobility (I) |
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CHAIR André Guillerme (CNAM, CDHT) Arnaud Passalacqua (Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot) -From driver to machine: Paris buses facing the accidents from the 1920’s to our days Bruno Cordovil Cordeiro (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon) -Street lighting as safe mobility Bernd Kreuzer (University of Linz) -Throwing a light on the dark side of urban mobility: Proposals to improve pedestrians` safety by urbanism since 1850 |
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E International Perspectives in Railway History (II) |
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CHAIR Colin Divall (Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York) David Bàn (University ELTE, Budapest) -The Railway Station in the social sciences Adebayo A. Lawal (University of Lagos) -The managerial and financial problems of the railway in colonial Nigeria Zdenek Tomes (Masaryk University, Brno) -Long-term structural decline of railways |
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A The Urban Highway, 1945-1970 in Comparative Perspective (Round Table) |
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CHAIR Clay McShane (Northeastern University) Mathieu Flonneau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) -Paris Raymond Mohl (University of Alabama-Birmingham) -Miami Louise Nelson Dyble (California Institute of Technology) -San Francisco |
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B Tourism and Consumption in Socialism (I) |
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CHAIR Heike Wolter (Technische Universität Dresden) Igor Tchoukarine (EHESS Paris) -The Czechoslovak Tourist Space in Socialist Yugoslavia : From Economic to Political Signification Dragan Popovic (Karl Franzens Universität) -“Patriotic Tourism”, a Tool in the Yugoslav Communist Party Ideology Sergei I. Zhuk (Ball State University) -Tourism and Cultural Consumption in the “Closed” City of Soviet Ukraine Christopher Görlich (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung) -Holidays, State and Individualism. The Vacation in the GDR |
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C Transport Safety and Public Policy (II) |
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CHAIR Jean-Pierre Orfeuil (Université Paris 12 Créteil) David Blanke (Texas A&M University Corpus Christi) -The Values of Safety: Accidents and the American Automative “Love Affair” (1900-1940) Hans-Liudger Dienel (Technische Universität Berlin) -French Transport Research Policies in an International Comparative Perspective (1975-2005) Jean-Pierre Galland (LATTS Ecole des ponts) -“Data” with respect to Road Insecurity in France (1975-2005) Gisela Hürlimann (University of Zurich) -The “Techno-Sociology of Risks“: Railway Safety, Automation, High Speed and the Perception of Public Security and Social Risks (1960-2000) |
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D Safety, Urbanism and Sustainable Mobility (II) |
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CHAIR Gijs Mom (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) Benoit Lefevre (Ecole des Mines, Paris) -Bogota’s TransMilenio: back to the Future? Olle Hagman, Håkan Andréasson (Göteborg University) -Everyday Life Travel in Changing Conditions. A Case Study in Connection to the Congestion Tax Trial in Stockholm 2005-2006 Fafa Rebouha (Université des sciences et des techniques, Oran) -Urban Design, Transport and Sustainable Mobility: the Case Study of Oran’s Peripheral |
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E Transport Policies, Territory and National Identity |
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CHAIR Christian Chevandier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Martin Eriksson (Umeå University) -Different Trajectories, Similar Outcomes: The Case of Swedish and Finnish Winter Shipping in the Post-War Period Ian Gray (Charles Sturt University) -The Centralisation of Regional Land Transport in Australia and some of its Consequences Chiaki Matsunaga (Kyushu University) -Historical Review of Effect of the Canal Project as the Regional Development at the Incunabula of the Railways in Japan Jyrki Paaskoski (University of Helsinki) -A European Canal: International Influences on Building Saimaa Canal (1844-1856) |
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A United-States, International Negotiations andElaboration of Community Safety Standards |
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CHAIR Patrick Fridenson (EHESS Paris) Stève Bernardin (RIVES Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Harrison Grafos (New York University) -When Technique Standards become Economic Tools. A Study of International Car Safety Regulation at the United Nations (1958-1998) Marine Moguen-Toursel (EHESS Paris) -Community Safety Standards: Definition of a Proper European Vehicle or Alignment on American Standards? |
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COMMENTATOR : Evelyne Serverin (IRERP Université Paris 10) |
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B ( room : P202 ) Tourism and Consumption in Socialism (II) |
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CHAIR Hans-Liudger Dienel (Technische Universität Berlin) Ivan Chorvát (Univerzita Mateja Bela) -Tourism, Ideology and Consumption in socialist Czechoslovakia Heike Wolter (Technische Universität Dresden) -“Potemkin’s modernization”. Tourism as a Field of Consumption in the late GDR Breta Luthar (Univerza v Ljubljani) -Remembering Socialism: On Travel, Consumption and Surveillance in Socialism |
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C ( room : P302 ) Constructing Safety |
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CHAIR Peter Lyth (University of Nottingham) Colin Divall (Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History) -“You see, my husband’s so partial to a mantel-shelf” : the gendered Construction of “Safety” on Britain’s (1919-1939) Mike Esbester (Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History) -“Largely a matter of educating the staff”: employee Safety on Britain’s Railways (1918-1939) Barbara Schmucki (Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History) -“Safe roads for pedestrians!”: a History of an endangered Species in the 20th Century |
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D ( room : P314 ) Tourism, Migration and Mobility |
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CHAIR Serge Weber (LVMT Marne La Vallée) Ana Cardoso de Matos (CIDEHUS Universidade de Evora) -Tourism and Transports in Portugal from the end of the 19th century to the Beginning of the 20th century Neil Ferguson and Lee Woods (University of Strathclyde) -The Influence of “Life-History” on Current Household Travel Behaviour Rachel Gillett (Northeastern University) -“The Freedom of the City: Intersections between Race, Music and Mobility for Black Americans in Jazz-Age Paris Steve Koerner (Victoria) -The 1934 Bedaux Sub-Artic Expedition Jérôme Scarabello (INSEE Université Bordeaux 4) -Migrations and Labour Mobility on European Continent: Lessons of the 1st Globalisation (1815-1914) |
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E ( room : P203 ) Automobilization of European Societies |
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CHAIR Vincent Kaufmann (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne) Robert Argenbright (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) -Avtomobilshchina? Issues of Cultural, Geographical and Social Sustainability in the Automobilization of Moscow Vincent Guigueno (LATTS Ecole des ponts) -French Drivers, Yellow Cars: a scientific Controversy about Car and Safety in French Interwar Context Luisa Sousa (Technical University of Lisbon) -“Automobility” in Portugal: Car Culture, Ownership and Production |
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A ( room : P012 ) European car culture and technology |
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CHAIR Alain Michel (Université d’Evry) Gijs Mom (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) -European Cars, European Users? The Coevolution of Automotive Technology and Culture Christopher Neumaier (Technische Universität München) -The Diesel Automobile: a Successful and Environmental Sustainable Technology? A Comparison of Germany and the United States Sjoerd Van der Wal (Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies) -The upcoming of the European Car during the Interbellum |
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B ( room : P202 ) Railway safety in Europe. Three Case Studies |
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CHAIR Michèle Merger (CNRS Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris) François Caron (Université de Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne) -Safety and Signaling on French railways (XIXth – XXth) Andrea Giuntini (Università degli Studi di Modena) -Railway Safety in Italy: an Overview Hanneke Duijnhoven (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) -Security Culture in the Dutch and Spanish Railway Sector: a Historical Overview |
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C ( room : P302 ) Session Transport Safety and Public Policy (II) |
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CHAIR Dominique Fleury (INRETS, Marseille-Aix en Provence) Fredrik Andersson, Thomas Pettersson (Umeå University) -The Vision Thing. Goals, Instruments and Practice in Swedish Road Safety Policy (1997-2006) Matthew Ericson (Monash University, Melbourne) -Injury Prevention Policies in Victoria and Cambodia: can an innovative Helmet Policy in a developed State inform Policy-making in a developing State? Martin Schiefelbusch (Nexus Institute, Berlin) -Culture of safety: Experts’ view of humans and human’s view of experts |
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D ( room : P314 ) International Perspectives in Highway History |
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CHAIR Mathieu Flonneau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Massimo Moraglio (Università di Torino) -A History of Italian Motorways. The Period between the two Wars Cotton Seiler (Dickinson College) -“How can the Driver be Remodeled?”: Highway Engineering, Automotive Technology and American Cold-War Citizenship Frank Schipper (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) -All Roads Lead to Europe: The E-road network 1950-1975 |
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E ( room : P203 ) T2M History and Public History (II) |
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CHAIR Marie-Noëlle Polino (AHICF, Paris) Suzann Kill (Deutsche Bahn AG) -How Business History benefits to DBAG Günter Dinhobl (ÖBB DLG Konzernarchiv) -ÖBB Corporate Archive – a new actor dealing with sources of railway history in Austria Ralf Roth (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main) -Being a Railway Historian in a Corporate Environment |