2010 Conference Program – International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility

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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

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