The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
First Canadian Meeting Proudly Hosted by: Canada Science and Technology Museum |
Keynote Speaker: Thomas Homer-Dixon |
Opening Plenary Lecture (Chair: Gijs Mom), Auditorium Tom McCarthy |
John McCannon, Winged Prometheans: Bush Pilotry as Socialist Construction in Stalinist Russia, 1928-1939. |
Liz Millward, From Lady Helluvadin to Johnnie: British women pilots and mobility |
Eda Kranakis, Hijacking Europe: Politics, Law, Technology, and the Rise of Civil Aviation Security, 1947-1976 |
Marine Mobilities, Classroom 2 |
Brook Taylor, Interpreting the Marine Photographs of Frederick William Wallace |
Birgit Braasch, Constructing the Ocean: Tourism, Transport and the North-Atlantic Seascape |
David McGee, Getting There and Being There: Commercial Diving and the Emergence of Virtual Underwater Mobility, 1960-1980 |
Urban Expressways, Classroom 3 |
Danielle Robinson, Modernism at a Crossroad: The Spadina Expressway Controversy in Toronto, Ontario 1960-1971 |
Jason Young, In Its Natural State: Toronto’s Spadina Subway and the Battle Over the Cedarvale-Nordheimer Ravine, 1971-1978 |
Derek Simons, “Scenes that … are all about us:” Jane Jacobs’s Naturalist Urban Ecology and the Triumph of the Neoliberal City |
Automobility and the Environment I, Auditorium |
Eva Lindgren, Car ownership and the environment: The willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide intensive meta-consumption in Norway and Sweden. |
Dimitry Anastakis, The Car v. the Environment: Canadian Responses to Automobiles Emissions Pollution Problem 1970-1985. |
Matthew Eisler, Battery vs. Fuel Cell: Electrochemical Power Sources and the Technopolitics of Green Automobility |
Mobility and Urban Development, Classroom 1 |
Àlvaro Ferreira da Silva & Luisa Sousa, The “Script” of a new urban layout: mobility. Environment and embellishment. Street’s uses in Lisbon between 1880 and 1920. |
Stefano Maggi, Medieval towns and motor vehicles. The Creation of “pedestrian Isles” in Italy: 1960-1970. |
Roads, Rails and Political Development I, Classroom 2 |
Lipokmar Dzuvichu, Pathways of Empire: The Politics of Road Building along the Northeast Frontier of British India |
Kilian Elsasser, The St. Gotthard railway line — its mythological meaning for an Independent state of Switzerland |
Automobility and the Environment II, Classroom 3 Chair: Steve Koerner Sjoerd Van der Wal, The Depressing Paradox of More Comfortable Greener Cars
Darryl McMahon, The LSV — A Made in Canada Solution, Not Welcome in Canada |
Policies, Place and People, Classroom 4 |
Etienne Faugier, Automotive system in the Rhône district: the economical motor for a rurality against nature? (1919-1939) |
Martin Schiefelbusch, Promoting Public Transport-Passenger Organisations and Environmental Concerns |
Laurel L. Cornell, What is “Mobility”? An Analysis of the Person on Foot from the Viewpoint of the AASHTO Road Designer, 1954-1990. |
Peter Norton, The Exile of the Child Pedestrian |
Alternative Modalities, Classroom 1 Chair: Jameson Wetmore
Mathieu Flonneau, “Vélib’”: A Relevant Alternative Transportation Mode for XXIth Century Great Paris?
Alban Igwe, Evolution and Sustainability of Motorcycles as Para-Transit in Nigeria
Chris Bradshaw, “A Century of Private Car Ownership: It’s Undermining Mobility” Mobility ____ |
Challenges in Africa, Classroom 2 Chair: Massimo Moraglio
Lasisi Adebusola, Mobility and Sustainable Environmental Development in Lagos, Nigeria
Mensah, Mobility and the Environment
Samuel Ntewusu, Mobility and the Built-Environment of Accra, Ghana |
Tourism and the Environment in Socialist Countries, Classroom 3 Chair: Anna Adamek
Scott Moranda, Tourism and the Justification of Landscape Protection in East Germany, 1954-1970
Heike Wolter, Environmental Protection in East German Recreational Areas in the 1970s and 1980s
Ulrich Wieler, The Temporary Community of Fortunate People and the Shells They Had |
Mobility and Wilderness Parks
Chair: Philip Scarpino |
H.V. Nelles, Car Park: The Automobile and the Evolution of Banff National Park
Ben Bradley, The Greatest Gobbler of Park Acreage That Exists: Automobiles, Highways and the Provincial Parks of British Columbia, 1940-1960 |
Kathy Rettie, Road Ecology in Banff National Park — Concepts and Applications for Integrating Ecology into Sustainable Transportation System |
Automobility and National Consciousness I, Classroom 1 Chair: Heike Wolter
Virgile Collin-Lange & Krage Carlsen, Automobility and Environmental Consciousness
Maggie Walsh, Blame the Women! Car Driving and Environmental Change in the United States, 1970-2000 |
Automobility and National Consciousness II, Classroom 2 Chair: Suzanne Beauvais
Bård Toldnes, Driving Schools in Norway before WW2
Steve Koerner, In Search of the `All-Canadian Car´ |
Policy, Preference and Paradox, Classroom 3 |
Massimo Moraglio, Develop Mass Motorization, Use Trams, Boycott the Underground The Contradictions of Urban Mobility in Turin, the Italian Car Company Town. |
Gunter Heinickel & Hans-Liudger Dienel, Generational Aspects of Mobility Biographies and the Forming of Mobility Attitudes versus the Environment |
Ian Gray, Interpretations of History and the Trajectories of Transport Policies |
Mobility, Ecology and Society, Classroom 4 |
Chair: Bruce Pietrykowski |
Sigmund Langegger, Towards a Theory of Social Choice |
Peter Allen, Resource Use, Transportation, and Economic Transformation: A case study in Southern Wisconsin |
Winter Mobility, Auditorium |
Anna Adamek, “In front a blind unbroken waste of snow − behind a cleanly swept Track”. Semantics of the Ottaws Electric Railway Company’s Snow Sweepers |
Glenn Bower & Ethan Brodsky, Glenn Bower, Design and Construction of a High-Efficiency Electric Drivetrain For a Zero-Emissions Snowmobile |
Martin Eriksson, Compensating Regional Shipping. Climate and Geographical Issues during the Regulation of Swedish Ice-breaking, 1940-1975 |
NewStart: Mobility Without Oil (Roundtable), Auditorium |
Hans-Liudger Dienel, How probable is the big shift towards mobility without oil? Future research form a historical perspective |
Rainer Schipporeit, Societal impact of the Berlin Exhibition “Mobility without Oil” |
Mobility and the Environment, Classroom 1 |
Chair: Bruce Pietrykowski |
Karl Georg Høyer, A conference tourist — and his confessions. Theorizing on conference tourism aeromobility and environmental change |
Alan Hogenauer, Global Travel and Tourism via Public Surface Transport — Oxymoron, or Opportunity for Mobility and Reduced Environmental Impact? |
Philip Scarpino, Navigation and Transportation Improvements and their Impact on the Spread of Exotic, Invasive Species in the Great Lakes Eco-system |
Political Adversity and Mobility, Classroom 2 |
Sarah Frohardt-Lane, Sacrifice and Conservation in the Motor City: A Case Study of Efforts to Reduce Automobile Use during World War II |
Robert McCloy, Mobility and the Environment in South Wales: 1923-1963 |
Technology and Mobility, Classroom 3 |
Wiklund, Technological systems in co-operation: The electrification of Riksgränsbanan railway |
Jorgen Burchardt, Tires for Giants. The development of the pneumatic tire and its Importance for road transportation |
Urban Mobility Reimagined, Classroom 4 |
Chair: Paul Van Heesvelde |
Amy D. Finstein, Boston’s Other Green Monster(s): The Automobile, the Central Artery, and the Path to the Big Dig |
Michel Hubert, The “Expo’58” International Exhibition and daily mobility in Brussels: a decisive and durable impact |
1:45-16:00 Plenary Session (Thematic Panel Discussion), Auditorium |
International Panel on Sustainable Urban Transport |
Chair: Hans-Luidger Dienel, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany Panel Members: |
Ian Gray, Dept. of Sociology, Charles Sturt University, Australia Colin Divall, Railway Studies, York University, UK Bob Paddon, Vice-President Corporate and Public Affairs, Translink, Vancouver, Canada Julian Hine, Translink Chair of Transport, University of Ulster, UK Katsutoshi Ohta, School of Regional Development Studies, Toyo University, Japan |
Teaching Mobility (Roundtable), Auditorium Chair: Vincent Guigueno |
Teaching History of Transport and Mobility: New Objects, New Practices? |
Roads, Rails and Political Development II, Classroom 1 Chair: Mike Esbester Kevin James, A ‘Union indefeasible’: The North Channel divide and the politics of Unionism, 1868-1900 Ralph Roth, The Role of Environmental Aspects in the Railway Discussion in Nineteenth-Century Germany |
Early Roads, Classroom 2 Chair: Anna Adamek Alain Roy, Environment, Landscape and New France: The XVIIIth Century project of Chemin Royal in the Lac Saint-Pierre Area Daniel Flueckiger, A sisyphean struggle. Road Maintenance in pre-industrial Bern, ca. 1740-1850. |
Plenary Session, Auditorium |
Museums and the Public Interest Chair: Randall Brooks Jørgen Burchardt, National Museum of Science and Technology, Denmark Rainer Schipporeit, German Museum of Technology, Berlin Kilian Elasser, Museumfabbrik, Switzerland Garth Wilson, Canada Science and Technology Museum |
Summation: Philip Scarpino |