East-West Cooperation in the Automotive Industry: Mobility, Production and FlowsJournal of Transport History, Special Issue Socialist countries relied heavily on foreign knowledge and technology to build up their automotive industry and to re-design mobility in and among socialist states. The construction of the automobile industry and mass motorization in the European Eastern Bloc and socialist Yugoslavia led to the mobilization of an enormous amount of physical and knowledge assets. Western European businesses were prominent in this process.Recent literature has focused…

CFP - Teaching mobilities: practice, pedagogies, power. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2017: London, 29th August - 1st September 2017 Convenors: Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London), Justin Spinney (Cardiff University), and Simon Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London). Geographers are well attuned to mobilities – everyday mobilities that constitute our social lives, permitting social reproduction and subverting rules and restrictions to reassert people’s rights to public space; international mobilities that speak to the precarity of our current times, from…

Tensions of Europe Summer school “Borders and Crises in European Past and Present – angles from the history of technology” Greece (Athens and Delphi), 5-7 September 2017 The Tensions of Europe Early Career Scholars’ Group (http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu/) organises the summer school “Borders and Crises in European Past and Present – angles from the history of technology” in connection to the 8th Tensions of Europe Conference (Athens, 7-10 September 2017; see http://8toe2017.phs.uoa.gr/). The summer school aims at introducing PhD’s and early career scholars…

The 4th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans will be held on 29-30 March 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The theme for the conference is Intelligent Planning for Sustainable Mobility and participation is free of charge. Four years after the publication of the European Commission’s Urban Mobility Package (2013) and related SUMP Guidelines (2014), there is now a large and expanding network of cities committed to preparing and implementing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. This includes cities and institutions involved in various EU projects and initiatives, designed…

The existing historiography of U.S. passenger railways, post World War 2, pays insufficient attention to important aspects, such as (among others): (1). how transnational relationships affected the development of high speed technology; (2). the decline of railcar/propulsion manufacturing. Also this historiography rarely includes theoretical explanations of why a new technology—e.g., magnetically levitated transport (Maglev), or the Aerotrain—failed to achieve commercial implementation; or why one particular technology, as opposed to another, was adopted. Therefore, I invite colleagues to join me in…

The John Scholes Prize is awarded annually to the writer of a publishable paper based on original research into any aspect of the history of transport and mobility. The prize is intended to recognise budding transport historians. It may be awarded to the writer of one outstanding article, or be divided between two or more entrants. Typically, the prize is awarded for research completed as part of a PhD. This year we’re delighted to announce that the prize will consist…

BACKGROUND The relations between mobilities and health have been considered to be a central feature of today's global society (Gatrell, 2011). Too much movement has often been attributed to various illnesses including bodily disruptions  such as seasickness and jet-lag as well as mental ill-health such as homesickness, phobias. However, travel is also seen as being 'good for the soul', part of quasi-spiritual quests to become more healthy in mind and body. Such human mobilities require healthy environments which are sustainable…