CALL FOR PAPERS
T2M Conference – Madrid, 2012
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) announces the call for papers to be presented at its tenth annual conference, which will take place at the Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid (Madrid Railway Museum) on 15-18 November 2012.
Delicias station, Madrid Railway Museum
Physical mobility in societies and the economic growth of societies have been linked to the availability of means of transport and to their combination and coordination, particularly as a result of modernization and urbanization processes.The future of public transport in the last 100 years depended on good and easy intermodal mobility. While walking and driving may have allowed monomodal point-to- point travel, public transport by definition includes a transition between transport modes. Thus, transport planning in favour of public transport systems did face public expectation to provide intelligent intermobilites in order to support public transport modes.
The Madrid Conference seeks to analyse the processes of interconnection and integration among the different modes of transport from a historical perspective, and will therefore deal with the various aspects that converge therein: economic, social, institutional, political, technological, territorial and patrimonial. Consequently, the suggested research topics related to the concept of intermodality are the following:
- International and transnational intermodality and its technical, economic and political-administrative aspects.
- Intermodality and migratory processes.
- Intermodality in metropolitan cities and its effects on urban development and on transport demands and everyday travel habits.
- The planning of intermodal complexes throughout history: projects, successes and failures.
- Spaces for modal interchange: stations, airports, sea and river ports.
- Technological consequences for modal interchange in the sea and river transport sphere: from stowage to container traffic.
- Intermodality in the air traffic sphere. The airport within reach of the city and major intermodal hubs: from metropolitan connections to the emergence of highspeed lines.
- Light intermodality in large cities: the different ways in which users access the transport system (walking, cycling and driving to major intermodal hubs).
- Intermodality and environment.
Papers must be sent to: submissions@t2m.org. The deadline for sending abstracts and an abbreviated CV (maximum of one page per paper: Word or Rich Text Format only) will be May 15, 2012. Further information can be found at www.t2m.org
