2004 T²M Conference Program

Mobility History and Policy

Thursday November 4

1:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Tours of the Henry Ford Estate (ongoing)

2:00 p.m. - Conference Registration Opens (Social Sciences Building)

4:00 p.m. - Keynote Address (Social Sciences Building Auditorium)
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,

City University of New York
The Fetishism of Technology: Causes and Consequences

5:30 p.m. - Reception (Henry Ford Estate)

Sponsored by the UM-Dearborn Office of the Provost, Text-in-Community Series

Friday November 5

(From today onward all conference events will be held at the Fairlane Center unless otherwise noted)

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. - Breakfast (Dining Room B)

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. – Plenary Session (Dining Room C)

Bruce Seely

Engineers as Policy Makers?
A Comparative View of Expertise and Highway Policy in the U.S. and Europe

Commentators: Daniel Little

Gijs Mom

9:45 – 9:50 am – Micro-Break

9:50 – 11:20 a.m. – Sessions 1: Parallel Sessions

Session 1.1

Session Title: Adventures in Urban Traffic Regulation

Chair: Jeff Schramm

Daniel Baldwin Hess

Transportation Beautiful: Did the City Beautiful Movement Improve Urban Transportation?

Carlton Basmajian

Within the growing literature (academic and popular) on commuting, a trend has become evident: treating commuting as a homogen

Sathyanarayanan Sudhakar

Evolution of Regulating Traffic in a Circular Way at Highway Intersections in the United States

Pierre Bélanger

Knot City: A History of Transport Infrastructure in Metropolitan Bangkok (Thailand)

Session 1.2

Session Title: Gender, Race and Mobility History

Chair: Margaret Walsh

Georgina Hickey

“A Kaleidoscope of Light, Noise, and Bustle”: Gender, Race, and Public Space in the Progressive-Era Urban U.S. South

Lyn Long

“As Akin to Us as the Home in Which We Live”: Women, the Car and the Cult of Domesticity, 1900-1959

Steve Koerner

Gender and Motor Vehicles: The Case of the Motor Cycle in Britain, 1919-1929

Drew Whitelegg

The consumption and production of mobility among airline cabin crew in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1970-2000

Session 1.3

Session Title: Case Studies of Transport Systems

Chair: James Rubenstein

Karel Schmeidler

Influence of Growing Transport and Mobility on Urban Sprawl in Czech Cities

Bhuiyan M. Alam and Saleh Ahmed

Review of Mismatches between Planning and Implementing the Traffic Management Systems: The Case of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Niroj Kumar Mohanty, Shisher Kumra and Anju Singh

Urban Transportation in India: Case Study of Delhi

Elizabeth A. Deakin and Gregory L. Newmark

Evolution of a Multiuse Arterial Corridor: California’s San Pablo Avenue

Session 1.4

Session Title: Detroit Online: Resources for Scholars and Teachers on the American Automobile Industry (Roundtable)

Jonathan Smith – STS Program, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Judith Endelman – The Henry Ford

Pamela Todd – MotorCities – Automobile National Heritage Area

Kae Halonen – Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Jeffrey Trzeciak – Wayne State University and Detroit Public Library

11:20 – 11:30 a.m. – Mini-Break

11:30 – 12:45 p.m. – Sessions 2: Parallel Sessions

Session 2.1

Session Title: Precursors and Reactions to Automobility

Chair: Georgina Hickey

Robert Buerglener

Encountering the Rural: Urban Drivers and Automobile Touring in the U.S. before World War I

Asha Weinstein

Traveler or Pesky Impediment to Travel? Pedestrians and Traffic Regulations in the U.S. and France, 1870-1930

Clay McShane

The Carriage and The Origin of Urban Highways

Session 2.2

Session Title: Methodological Issues in Mobility History

Chair: Jonathan Smith

Daniel Little

Transport as a causal factor in history: A case study in new philosophy of history

Hans-Liudger Dienel and Gunter Heinickel

Biographical Manifestations and Intergenerational Transmittance of Individual Mobility Patterns

Colin Divall and George Revill

Cultures of transport: representation, practice and technology

Session 2.3

Session Title: Culture, Policy and Technologies of Safety

Chair: Drew Whitelegg

André Guillerme

Safety first: Pedestrians Face to Cars in Early 20th century France

Jameson M. Wetmore

Belt ‘em or Bag ‘em? Negotiating Automotive Restraint Regulations in the United States in the 1980s

Mike Esbester

The Transfer of American Railway Safety Culture to Britain, c.1910-1930: ‘Save us from American Railroad Methods’

Session 2.4

Session Title: Visualizing Automobility Through Artifacts and Resources

Chair: William Pretzer

R. Kriepke – Ford Motor Company, Photographic Division (Dearborn, Michigan)

Gert Schmidt – Friedrich-Alexander Universitat (Erlangen, Germany)
"Lust am Auto" - An Exhibition on Modern Automobilism as Culture

Larry Gustin - General Motors, Buick Division (Detroit, Michigan)

Mark Patrick – Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection (Detroit, Michigan)

12:45 – 1:20 p.m. – Lunch

1:25 p.m. – Board buses for Rouge Factory tour and Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village

Sponsored by The Henry Ford

5:30 p.m. - Leave from Henry Ford Museum for Ritz Carlton Hotel

Saturday November 6

7:00 – 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast (Dining Room B)

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. – Sessions 3: Parallel Sessions

Session 3.1

Session Title: Regulating Buses and Streetcars

Chair: Bruce Pietrykowski

Eric Johnson

Municipal Franchises and the Transit Industry in New York City, 1909-1957

Margaret Walsh

Twentieth Century Public Policy: The Long Distance Bus Industry in the United States

Corinne Mulley

Motorised bus transport: 20th century public policy in the UK and its affect on mobility

Session 3.2

Session Title: Political Economy of National Transport Policies

Chair: Ilir Miteza

Thomas Pettersson

Transport Subsidies in Sweden and Norway -Two Cases of Institutional Path Dependence?

Julian Greaves

The Political Economy of British Shipping Between the Two World Wars

Gustav Sjoblom

”I'd call that a bargain - the best I ever had“: Motor taxation, earmarking and motorization in Britain, Germany and Sweden, 1925-65

Session 3.3

Session Title: Building Roads Engineering Nations

Chair: Clay McShane

Ray Bromley

Escaping and Connecting Cities: The development of "modern highways" in the United States, Italy and Germany, 1918-1943

Gijs Mom

Roads as Rails: The Creation of a European Freeway Network and the Desire for Long-Range Automobility

Dan Bogart

Why were Turnpike Trusts Adopted in 18th Century England? A Case Study in Institutional Change

Session 3.4

Session Title: Effects of National Planning and Contested Ideologies on Mobility Industries

Chair: Rudi Volti

Valentina Fava

The Czechoslovak way towards mass production. Between the American Fordism and the Soviet Fordism: possibilities and strategies in Škoda engineers’ travel reports (1927-1968)

Bradley Flamm

"'A large volume of idle funds': 1940s wartime prosperity, mobility, and the Office of Defense Transportation"

Fredrik Andersson and Lena Andersson-Skog

The Quick Fix - Regional Ideology as National Transport Policy The case of railway investments and public transport subsidies in Sweden

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. - Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Sessions 4: Parallel Sessions

Session 4.1

Session Title: Vehicle Technologies: Studies of National Diffusion

Chair: Hanna Wolf

Maria Louisa Sousa

Technology Transfer and the Introduction of Assembly Lines in Portuguese Automobile Industry

James Rubenstein

Changing Geography of U.S. Motor Vehicle Production: Four Eras (or Five)

Florent Montagnon

The history of personnel management in public transportation: flexible practices in the mass transit company of Lyons, France, 1890-1980

Session 4.2

Session Title: Railroads: Technology, National Identity and Nation-Building

Chair: Colin Divall

Natalia Starostina

The Representations of Railways and Making the Welfare State in interwar France

Jeff Schramm

Railroad Dieselization, a Comparative Trans-National Study

Albert Churella

“Grim Visitors Knocking on the Door”: The Pennsylvania Railroad Mutual Beneficial Association and “Industrial Peace”

Session 4.3

Session Title: Normalization, Legislation and the Technical Evolution of Transports in Europe: New Perspectives (1920-1990)

Chair: Gijs Mom

Jan Oliva

Normalization, coordination and methods of regulation of Czechoslovakian transport between the wars

Christophe Bouneau

The normalization of railway electrification systems in Western Europe since the Second World War: from technological choices to political decisions

Pascal Griset and Dominique Larroque

New devices for new rules: electronics, normalization and automobile (1960’-1990’)

Session 4.4

Session Title: Urban Transportation

Chair: Mark Rose

Mathieu Flonneau

Tensions of “modernization”. Speeding the Parisian’s Streets Traffic. From Hénard to Le Corbusier, 1905-1925

Owen Gutfreund

Airport Hub Networks and the National Urban Hierarchy

Michael R. Fein

The Politics of Powerlessness: Local Government and the New York State Thruway Authority

Tom Watson McKinney

Houston’s Gulf Freeway: The Path to the Sea

Raymond A. Mohl

Stop the Road: Freeway Revolts in American Cities

Jeremy L. Korr

Building a Better Beltway: Challenges in Increasing the Inclusiveness of American Highway Planning

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. – Lunch

(presentation by Dr. Ruud Filarski)

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Sessions 5: Parallel Sessions

Session 5.1

Session Title: Comparative Transport History

Chair: Gijs Mom

Hanna Wolf

Comparing long-run national diffusion curves in transport. Is there a contribution to history?

Reiner Flik

Why did the pioneer fall behind? Motorization of road traffic in Germany and Northern America

Rudi Volti

Mass Motorization in Spain: Policies, Products, and Processes

Session 5.2

Session Title: Explorations in the Measurement and Meaning of Mobility

Chair: Larry Shumsky

Christophe Studeny

The history of speed: Transport revolution and acceleration of mobility (1770-1890)

Mitch Hendrickson

Elephants, Buffaloes and Oxen…Oh, My!! Using GIS to clock speed and gauge cultural mobility along the medieval Khmer road system

Larry Shumsky

Transportation History: Proposing a New Paradigm

Session 5.3

Session Title: Culture, Politics and the Construction of Mobility

Chair: Jason Weems

Stefan Bauernschmidt

Back and forth between Dependency and Independency: The Rigmarole with the Commercials of Ford-Werke AG between 1959 and 1967

Markus Nöhl

The Automotive ‘Spirit of Freedom’ in Public Debates on Car Traffic Regulations in the 1960s in West-Germany

Bruce Pietrykowski

Technology and the Cultural Politics of Dearborn’s People Mover System

Session 5.4

Session Title: Case Studies in Transport Policy

Chair: Mathieu Flonneau

Per Østby

The empire strikes back: The challenge to mass motorisation in Europe 1965 – 1975

Phillip-Alexander Harter and Günther Schulz

The European Traffic Policy from the 1950s to the 1980s – Development and implementation of political interests among Germany and the European Union

Erich Weber

Facing Flood, Ice and Drought – the Modernisation of the Preindustrial Goods Transport on the Rhine River, 1750 – 1850

3:00 – 3:20 p.m. – Break

3:20 – 5:15 p.m. -T²M Association General Membership Meeting

(Dining Room C)

(non-members welcomed and encouraged to attend)

5:15 – 6:15 p.m. – Return to hotel

6:30 p.m. – Bus leaves hotel for banquet at the Detroit Institute of Arts

6:45 – 10:00 p.m. – Museum tour and conference banquet

Sponsored by Motor Cities/National Automotive Heritage Area and the

Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage at UM-Dearborn

10:00 p.m. – Bus returns to hotel

Sunday November 7

8:00 – 10:00 a.m. – Breakfast

10:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Sessions 6: Parallel Sessions

Session 6.1

Session Title: Contemporary Histories of Urban Mobility

Chair: Asha Weinstein

Joe Grengs

Changing Urban Form and Patterns of Accessibility in the Detroit Region, 1990-2000

Wayne Woodward

‘Technologized Communications' in Transport, Production, and Urban Form

Greg L. Thompson

Restructuring Transit for the Post Industrial City: The Case of Portland, Oregon 1969–1988

Session 6.2

Session Title: Exploring The Meaning of Mobility History

Chair: Wendy Michael

Dino Borri, Pasquale Colonna and Valentina Palumbo

The need for mobility as a natural, necessary and inborn need of human race

Bruce Pietrykowski

The Virtual Display of Mobility: Postmodernity, Museums and Transport Artifacts.

Gijs Mom

Diffusion of Mobility Research: Report on the Tensions of Europe Project

Session 6.3

Session Title: Cultural Histories of Mobility

Chair: Hans Liudger-Dienel

Baard Toldnes

Tourists in horseless carriages, farmers in horse-drawn wagons?

Jason Weems

Theorizing the Windshield: Vision as the Edge of Mobility

Heike Wolter

"I hold out in the GDR, but I'm unfaithful ..." - Symbolic and material circulation in GDR tourism

11:30 – 11:45 a.m. – Break

11:45 – 12:30 p.m. – Closing Plenary Session: Evaluation and Future Directions of T²M (Dining Room C)

T²M Business Meeting Schedule

Thursday November 4

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Business Meeting of the Executive Committee of the T²M Association

Saturday November 6

3:20 – 5:15 p.m. T²M Association General Membership Meeting (open to all)

Sunday November 7

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. T²M Executive Committee Planning Meeting