Opening Plenary Session Philippe Courtier, Director of the Ecole des ponts Armel de la Bourdonnaye, Research Department Director, Ecole des ponts

Speaker: Karen Bowie (Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles)

Plenary Session

Futures of the Road, Round Table Organized by Michel Savy (Université Paris 12), Leader of the French Road Association (URF) Think Tank

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)

Thinking of publishing with the Journal of Transport History?, discussion with the JTH Editorial Board moderated by Colin Divall

Concluding remarks by Vanessa Schwartz (University of Southern California) and Vincent Kaufmann (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Evaluation of the conference.

A     T2M History Public History (I)

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

B    Framing Road Safety in France

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

C    «Longue Durée» and Road History

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

D    History, Environment and Mobility

CHAIR      Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud (EHESS, Paris) Sabine Barles (Institut Français d’Urbanisme, Université de Paris 8) –Assessing the Environmental Impact of Road Traffic: A First Approach (France, 1870-1970) Ueli Haefeli (Interface Institute for policy studies Lucerne) –The Notion of Mobility as a Product of the environmental Turn of the 1970’s. The Discourses among Professional Actors in Germany and Switzerland Jameson M. Wetmore (Arizona State University) –Amish Transportation: Boundaries, Values, and Technological Choice

A   Aerial Mobility, Risks and Safety (Round Table)

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

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:

the urban Imaginary of aerial Mobility from 1909-1930

B     History, Safety and the Law

CHAIR      Anne-Françoise Garçon (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

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

C     Expertise and Urban Planning

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

D      Objects, History and Mobility

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

E      nternational Perspectives in Railway History (I)

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

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

A     Car Driving and Social Conflict

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

B (   Politics and Technocracy :Big Roads Projects in XX^th Century US and Germany

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

C      Gender and Mobility

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

D     Safety, Urbanism and Sustainable Mobility (I)

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

E    International Perspectives in Railway History (II)

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

A   The Urban Highway, 1945-1970 in Comparative Perspective (Round Table)

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

B    Tourism and Consumption in Socialism (I)

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

C       Transport Safety and Public Policy (II)

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)

D      Safety, Urbanism and Sustainable Mobility (II)

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

E     Transport Policies, Territory and National Identity

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)

A      United-States, International Negotiations andElaboration of Community Safety Standards

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?

COMMENTATOR : Evelyne Serverin (IRERP Université Paris 10)

B ( room : P202 )       Tourism and Consumption in Socialism (II)

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

C ( room : P302 )       Constructing Safety

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

D ( room : P314 )       Tourism, Migration and Mobility

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)

E ( room : P203 )        Automobilization of European Societies

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

A      ( room : P012 ) European car culture and technology

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

B      ( room : P202 ) Railway safety in Europe. Three Case Studies

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

C      ( room : P302 ) Session Transport Safety and Public Policy (II)

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

D      ( room : P314 ) International Perspectives in Highway History

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

E      ( room : P203 ) T2M History and Public History (II)

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