Saturday / March 05, 2016

Links to Other Transport and Mobility Resources

Research Networks
Cosmobilities Network

The Cosmobilities Network connects European scientists working in the field of mobility research. As an interdisciplinary network it represents state of the art research on different aspects of social, physical, cultural and virtual mobilities.
Anthromob

The Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB) is a member network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). It  aims to facilitate theoretical and methodological exchanges about anthropology and mobility, by fostering intellectually stimulating debates among anthropologists and interested scholars from neighboring disciplines working on mobility. In addition to sessions convened by ANTHROMOB at the bi-annual EASA conferences, the network organizes interdisciplinary conferences, workshops and summer schools and runs the ANTHROMOB mailing list. Facebook Group,  Mailing list
Mobile Lives Forum

The Mobiles Lives Forum is a “transinstitut”. Created in 2011, the Mobile Lives Forum is an institute for research on and discussion about mobilities. The Mobile Lives Forum treats mobility as both physical movement and social change.
Mobilities Network for Aotearoa New Zealand

The Mobilities Network for Aotearoa New Zealand is an informal network of researchers engaged in investigating transitions, connections and (im)mobilities and their consequences for people, places, ideas and things across disciplines and locations. The network has an annual symposium, a Working Paper series and an online hub connecting it to social scientists around New Zealand. Registration is onsite at Engaged Social Science | Hui Rangahau Tahi and members are welcome from anywhere in the world.
Transportation Research Board

The mission of the United States Transportation Research Board (TRB) is to promote innovation and progress in transportation through research.  In an objective and interdisciplinary setting, TRB facilitates the sharing of information on transportation practice and policy by researchers and practitioners; stimulates research and offers research management services that promote technical excellence; provides expert advice on transportation policy and programs; and disseminates research results broadly and encouraged their implementation.

UK Transport Archives

List of Accessions to UK Transport Archives compiled by the National Register of Archives, UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/).

Transport Digest 2014

Transport Digest 2013

Transport Digest 2012

Transport Digest 2011

Transport Digest 2010

Transport Digest 2009

Transport Digest 2008

Transport Digest 2007

Transport Digest 2006

German Transport Archives

Archives for Highway and Road History
Privately funded and not related to an university or similar institution, this community works as a voluntary ‘institution for memory’. Results of their scholarship such as reports, pieces, essays, book reviews, commented pictures, glossary, and historic calendar are presented to the public free of charge on this internet platform. They own three internet addresses:

www.strassengeschichte.de www.autobahngeschichte.com www.autobahnarchiv.com

Danish Transport Archives

The Danish Railway Museum

The Danish Railway Museum is one of Denmark’s oldest specialist museums and was originally established as a museum for the Danish State Railways (DSB) around 1900. It opened exhibitions at its present address in Odense in 1975. Since new year 2017 The Danish Railway Museum is a commercial foundation.

The Danish Railway Museum collects, preserves, document, conducts research into and provides interpretation on the entire field of the Danish railway history and the significance of railways – and does so in an attractive manner for as many people and target groups as possible.

https://www.jernbanemuseet.dk/en/

https://www.facebook.com/jernbanemuseum