Friday 06.11.’09, Parallel Session A, 10.30 – 12.00h
Innovation in Energy
Chair: Gisela Hürlimann
The Politics of Motor Fuels: Innovations, Expectations and Disappointments
Chair: Monika Dommann
Driving Innovation? The Unintended
Consequences of Early Automobility
Chair: Mathieu Flonneau
From Rails to Roads (and vice versa?) Part I: Rails and Roads between ompetition and Interdependency
Chair: Stéphanie von Erlach
Mobile Cocooning I – An Interdisciplinary Endeavor
Chair: Gijs Mom
A1: Stephenson, Paul
Railway Energy Sources and Innovation in Canada
A5: Ekerholm, Helena
Fuelling the Nation: Military Incentives for Domestic Fuel Development in Sweden 19191950
A2: Kreuzer, Bernd
Transport and Energy Innovation in the Austrian Salzkammergut
Region: A Case Study on Water, Horse Power, Steam and Electricity, 1830-1930
A6: Marald, Erland
There Will Be no Revolution: Alternative Fuels as a Mirage in the 1970s Energy Debate in Sweden
A3: Martínez López, Alberte
Energy, innovation and transport: the electrification of tramways in
Spain, 1896-1930
A7: Eklöf, Jenny
The Future is Here? Second Generation Biofuels as a Tool for Combating Climate Change
A4: McShane, Clay
Innovation in Urban Rail Transport in the U.S.
A9: Esbester, Mike
The Perils of Automobility: Creating Safe and Responsible Road Users in Britain, c.1900-70
A10: Moraglio, Massimo
A dangerous innovation. Bikers and drivers as criminals in the early 1900s: an Italian case study
A11: Schmucki, Barbara
Innovations at the crossroads: Walking technologies and techniques in the age of mass motorisation
A12: Faugier, Etienne
Histoire croisée of the Introduction of Automotive System and its Impacts In Rural Spaces in the Rhone Region and Quebec Province (1919-1961):
Review of a Work in Progress
A13: Roth, Ralf
Rails and Roads between Competition and Interdependency – A Long and Winding Relationship with Many Innovations That Failed
A14: Divall, Colin
Building Networks: The London and North Eastern Railway’s Response to Road Distribution
A15: Edwards, Roy
Technological Change and the Transition from Rail to Road c1920 – c1939: An opportunity Lost?
A16: Harcourt, Keith
Rail Containerisation in the United Kingdom and Europe during the
1920s and 1930s
A17: Mom, Gijs
The Prosthetisation of the Car. A History of Automobilism, Art and
Senses
A18: Krebs, Stefan
Closing the Body: Car Technology, Acoustics and Driving Experience in
the 1920s
A19: Terranova, Charissa N.
The Nows of the Automotive Prosthetic
A20: Bertho Lavenir, Catherine
Flirting in the Car: An Anthropological Approach

Saturday 07.11.’09, Parallel Session B, 08.30 – 10.00h
B1: Franke, Christian
Changing Patterns of International Infrastructure Governance in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Europe
B5: Meyer, Benedikt
Offer Creates Demand: The Invention of Air Travel for Mass Consumption
B9: Sperling, Walter
Imperialist Tropes of Integration: How Railroads ‘Discovered’ Asia and Imperial Russia (1859-1914)
B13: Ruppmann, Reiner
Frankfurt am Main and the Autobahn – The Long-Time Impact of the Genetic Code of the "City of Roads" on Traffic Structures
B2: Dienel, Hans-Liudger
Fractal Integration: International Integration and National Autonomy in Railway Infrastructures
B6: Jaquement, Juri
Technical Innovation and Energy Efficiency in Civil Aviation after 1945
B10: Kunz, Andreas
Crossing Internal Borders: The German States and Railway Building during the Nineteenth Century
B14: Vahrenkamp, Richard
Trucking Europe – The European Motorway Network and the European Traffic Policy Boosting Logistics 1950 – 2000
B3: Schot, Johan
Why European Transport Policy Was Lagging Behind other Fields of Infrastructural Integration
B7: Fehr, Sandro
Aviation Infrastructure as a Condition for the Implementation of Aviatic Inventions and as an Area of Invention on Its Own
B11: Buiter, Hans
Crossing International Borders: The Cases of Dutch and Belgium Railways, 1835-1940
B15: Flik, Reiner
Creative Destruction? Cars and Road Construction in a Schumpeterian View
B4: Tomeš, Zdenek
European railways – an application of the life-cycle theory
B8: Lyth, Peter
Afterburning : Concorde, paradigm shift and the slow death of supersonic travel.
B12: Killick, John & Keeling, Drew
Transport and Migration: An Index of Transatlantic Fares, 1815-1914

Parallel Session C, 10.45 – 12.15h

C1: Gray, Ian & McLean, David
History for Policy: What can history do for transport policy and how can it be made most fruitful for that purpose?
C5: Sousa, M. Luísa; Marques, Rafael
Political Transition, Value Change and the Motorization in Portugal in the 1970s
C9: Prata, Ana
The Portuguese Seaport Sector Development: Trial and Error
C13: López Galviz, Carlos
Electric Underground: Technology and the City Railway, London and Paris, c.1880 – 1910
C17: Booth, Rodrigo
Scenic road in Chile. Motoring and tourist landscape in Viña del Mar,
1917-1931
C2: Tighe, David
Is history useful or just fun? Ça depend as my African friends would say. A real-world attempt to draw on it within a website on rural transport planning in less-developed countries
C6: Gatejel, Luminita
Motorisation from Above. Building Cars and Creating Automobile Desires in Socialist Romania
C10: Fernandes, André Tagus
Traditional Boats and the Modernisation of Regional Transportation System: From a Mode of Transport to a Cultural Construct
C14: Berio, Fabio
Public Transport, Technological Innovation and Competition between Road and Railway: The Evolution of Railcars in Fascist Italy (1922-1932)
C18: Cornell, Laurel
Innovations in Truck Design and the Character of the Road System in the
U.S.: An Analysis from the Viewpoint of the AASHTO Road Designer, 1954-1990
C3: Alam Bhuiyan, M.
Looking Forward to the Future through the Windows of Politics of Transportation Mobility in the United States in Post–WWII Era: A Holistic Approach
C7: Østby, Per
Driving Wild in the Northern Periphery – Mass Motorization 1950 to 1970
C11: Galiau, Sónia
Between the Portuguese Historical Railway Stagnation and the Innovation of High Speed: Opportunities and Threats
C15: Passalacqua, Arnaud
Innovation and Ideology in a Context of Energy Shortage: Keeping the Parisian Bus Network Running during World War II
C19: Burchardt, Jørgen
The transport’s industry for the industry’s transport The development of the road transport since 1950
C4: C8: Errázuriz, Tomás
New technologies, new citizens: urban transport motorization and the arise of modern traffic experiences
C12: Salgueiro, Ângela
The Companhia Real dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses: An Instrument of Modernity in Portugal
C16: Bauernschmidt, Stefan
Ford in Inter War Berlin. ‘American Threat’ – from ‘auto intoxication’ to
‘inequalities of consumption’
C20: Sumi, Christian
Landscape myths and technology – infrastructure buildings and their implications on changes of landscape

Parallel Session D, 13.45 – 15.15h

D1: Peleman, David
Feeling at home in the car. Innovations in the automobile industry and the exploration of the Belgian territory, 1925-1938
D5: Popplow, Marcus
European road transport in the early modern period – developing an agenda for a comprehensive perspective
D9: Duda, Igor
Unwanted Modernization? The Acceptance of Tourism in Croatia under Yugoslav Socialism
D13: Cox, Peter
Energy and the bicycle – Human powered vehicles in perspective
D2: Priyanto, Sigit & Sukamto
Motorcycle Mobility and its Characteristics
D6: Kim, Nanny
Road transport in the Far Southwest of the Qing empire
D10: Keck-Szajbel, Mark
"Wsiadaj Bracie, Dalej Hop" – How Polish State Socialism fostered Hitchhiking
D14: Landerer, Helmut
Law and the Diffusion of Bicycles and Automobiles
D3: Allende, Fermín Portillo
Travelling by Railway from Fictional Literature to Economic History
D7: Randolph, John
Understanding the Muscovite Postal Network: Sources for the History of mobility in Early Modern Russia
D11: Inchovski-Turnin, Stanislav Veselinoff
Tourism – Rise to Conflicts? Clash in Various Forms of Mountain Tourism in Bulgaria
D15: Stoffers, Manuel
The Human Powered Vehicle movement and the renewal of transport ideology in the 1970s and 1980s
D8: Flückiger, Daniel
Transport in the age of bioenergy. A plea to connect isolated approaches to inland transport before the railways
D12: Lénárt, András
Tourism in Authoritarian Hungary – A Presentation Based in Interviews with Professional Guides in the Socialist Era and Official Documents.

Chair: Ueli Haefeli
Bicycle and Human-Powered Mobility
Chair: Massimo Moraglio
Mobile Cocooning II
Chair: Heike Wolter
Chair: Christopher Kopper
Touristic Innovation? – Tourism in authoritarian regimes Part I
Chair: Hans-Ulrich Schiedt
Comparative perspectives on pre-industrial road transport: Europe, Russia and China Cities, Energy, and Networks
Chair: Catherine Bertho Lavenir
Car Culture at the European Periphery (1950s1970s) History Matters
Chair: Javier Vidal Olivares
Chair: Christoph Maria MerkiChair: Paul Van Heesvelde
From Rails to Roads (and vice versa?)
Part II: Mobility on Roads, an Innovative Success Story of the 20th Century
Chair: Colin Divall
Crossing Borders: Railways as Agents of National, Transnational and Imperial Integration, 1840-1940
Chair: Ralf Roth
Overcoming adversity. The development of Portuguese land and water communications Automobility, Road
Chair: Hans-Liudger Dienel
Chair: Ambrosius
Integration of European Transport Infrastructures in Comparative Perspective Take-Off, Turbulenzen, Langeweile. Energie und
Innovation in der Zivilluftfahrt nach 1945 am Beispiel der Schweiz
Sunday 08.11.’09, Parallel Session E, 09.00 – 10.30h

E1: Lapointe, Julie
Lifts in Lake Geneva Hotels in the late 19th Century : Symbols of Modernity, Mobility and Innovation
E5: Burigana, David
Pound Trust, Fuel Consumption and Air Traffic Control in Europe. Beside a "Communitarian" Reorganization of Air Industries in the 1970s, the Multipurpose "National" Solutions to Oil Crises of Engines and Airframe Firms, of Airlines and their Governments
E9: Dougherty, Carolyn
Speed and efficiency in the design of early steam railways
E13: Popkema, Marcus
The establishment of traffic- engineering in the Netherlands
E 17 Howind, Sascha
"Kraft durch Freude" – State Tourism between Fascist Propaganda and Social Reality
E2: Sulmoni, Stefano
Innovation and comfort: the example of the Compagnie Générale de Navigation du Léman (1873-1914)
E6: Hamelin, Fabrice
How Does the 1973 Oil Crisis Impact Scientific Research on Transport? A Comparison between France and England
E10: Kvizda, Martin
Odd military lines – a comparative analysis of the Czech railway network’s efficiency
E14: Huguenin, Régis
Technical Choices, Management Models and Funding for a Tramway Network in Neuchâtel (1880-1914)
E 18 Wolter, Heike
Touristic Innovation or plagiarism – GDR’s Tourism in Historical Comparison
E3: Gigase, Marc
From Geneva to Mount Salève with the First European Electric Rack Railway
E7: Moguen-Toursel, Marine
Elaborating a Less Polluting Vehicle: Between Research Made by Car Makers and Impacts of Public Authorities
E11: Kluehspies, Johannes
The Maglev option: A high tech innovation – indefinitely delayed?
E15: Marquez, Victor
Negotiating Innovation: A Century of Change in the Landside-Airside Boundary
E 19 Steiner, Christian; Richter, Thomas
Tourism Development as an Authoritarian Innovation in Egypt and the Arab World: Strategies, Patterns and Results Since the 1970s
E4: Spode, Hasso
“Fremdenverkehr” as an Object of Research On the Origins of Tourism Theory and Tourism History
E8: Thomes, Paul & Jost, Nina
The electric vehicle – historical burden or tomorrows motive force?
E12: Schiefelbusch, Martin
Passengers as drivers of innovation in transport planning? Conceptual issues and experiences
E16: Dietrich, Willi
Die Wahl des Transportmittels – Zur noch jungen Geschichte einer innovativen Mobilitätspraxis
E 20 Pournazaree, Abraham
The Way to the Light. Reviewing the Theo-tourism in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1989-2009)

Chair: Peter Lyth
Touristic Innovation? – Tourism in authoritarian regimes Part II
Chair: M. Luisa Sousa
Traffic Planning and Funding
Chair: Garth Wilson
The impacts of the oil crisis on transport sectors: between innovations made by the private sector and guidelines given by public authorities
Chair: Paul Van Heesvelde
Chair: Laurent Tissot, Cédric Humair
Innovation in transport and its importance for the tourist industry: accessibility, comfort and prestige (19th – 20th century) Railway Technology