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Opening the blackbox of air deportation: The case of Switzerland's “Action Black Autumn” The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Barbara Lüthi, William Walters
In 1985, in an operation Swiss authorities termed “Action Black Autumn,” a group of (mainly) Zaïrean migrants were deported to Zaïre on Switzerland's first documented deportation charter flight. What later would become a routinised practice was at that point still experimental and encountered significant resistance. Based on primary sources, this article looks at expulsion beyond law and policy by
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Introduction to Special Issue on Tram Closures Narrated, Experienced and Contested The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Adam Borch, Jason Finch, Silja Laine
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Conflict transport: Holocaust histories, routes, and witnesses The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Simone Gigliotti
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Trains and cameras: Photography and the creation of a railway landscape in Portugal (late nineteenth–early twentieth centuries) The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Hugo Silveira Pereira
This article analyses the construction and circulation of representations of Portuguese mainland railways by photography in the illustrated press in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before World War I. The analysis uses a methodology combining semiotics with discourse analysis in journalism, which is applied to a sample of 406 photographs published in Portuguese magazines between 1872
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The securitization of air travel in the United States (1968–72) The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Dan Porat
Beginning in 1968, a surge in plane hijackings, particularly from the United States, prompted a focus on security measures to combat this trend. Initially, deterrence strategies implemented through laws and adopted from international conventions proved ineffective. This article traces the evolution from selective passenger profiling to a 1972 U.S. security order to screen all passengers, triggered
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Heritage expertise and tram closures in the World Heritage City of Toruń, Poland The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Iuliia Eremenko, Tymoteusz Kraski
This paper examines to what extent heritage considerations guided the closure of an operating tramline in Toruń's Old Town prior to its designation as a World Heritage City. The study is based on an analysis of local newspapers’ articles over a decade, encompassing the period before and after the tramline was closed. Additionally, it incorporates evaluations of historical public transport maps, content
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The closure of the Turku Tramway in visual memory The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Silja Laine
The tramway of Turku was closed in 1972. The last tram rides were memorable public events where the tramcars got a floral tribute and people came to say farewell. This article concentrates on the urban cultural memory of the tram after the closure and is now an integral part of the city's urban culture and identity. The Museum Centre of Turku holds many tram-related materials and has published research
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Book Review: Facing the Sea: Essays in Swedish Maritime Studies by Ekström Simon & Müller Leos The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Oliver Buxton Dunn
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Civil aircraft procurement and colonial ties: Evidence on the market for jetliners, 1952–89 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Tobias A. Jopp, Mark Spoerer
We investigate the extent to which (quasi-)colonial ties played a role in the procurement of jet aircraft by airlines in the Global South. Because we do not have access to archival data on the sensitive issue of aircraft procurement, we take an indirect empirical approach. Our investigation is based on a dataset including all Western jet aircraft delivered between 1952 and 1989. We ask if, to what
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The centrality of railways in the German concentration camp system: Jewish slave labourers’ relocation experiences The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Daan de Leeuw
This article scrutinises the role railways played in the existence of the German concentration camp system during the Third Reich era. Through the lens of Jewish slave labourers’ experiences, I argue that the numerous daily transports of prisoners from site to site were the backbone of the SS camp system. Grounded in survivor testimonies and Nazi administrative records, this paper traces the pathways
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Tramway closure representations as tools in critical urbanism: London and Glasgow on film, 1953–62 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Jason Finch
Film representations of transport networks’ closure events are valuable materials in a critical, comparative urban studies. Here, 1953 and 1962 films commemorating the last nights of the London and Glasgow tramways exemplify such use. The present study examines them as part of work towards an understanding of public transport as a type of contested public space, since publics can have them removed
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“Higher up, further” approaching air transport in postcolonial Africa through the biographies of planes The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Marie Huber
The 1960s were a pivotal moment for global air transport: the confluence of the technological innovations of the jet age and the formal decolonisation of most African countries resulted in a new connectivity between Africa and the world, as global aerial mobility rapidly intensified. This paper focuses on the multifaceted role of the jet plane in this process. Jets as flag carriers were key objects
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Gujranwala, 14 April 1919: Terror from air and airmindedness in late colonial India The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Joppan George
This article revisits one of the earliest instances of British colonial aerial aggression in an urban milieu in South Asia to better understand the normative conceptions of airmindedness, the popular appreciation of aviation. A day after the massacre of unarmed civilians in Jalianwala Bagh, Amritsar, in 1919, three Royal Air Force airplanes armed with bombs and machine guns flew out from Lahore toward
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Death traffic: The railway witnesses of Operation Reinhard The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Jacob Flaws
Historian Raul Hilberg once observed of death trains: “It's just very regular traffic. Death traffic”. Though subtle, his insinuation that this death traffic represented a “new normal” is, in fact, an astute observation of a largely unresearched process whereby Polish railway workers, and locals living near railway tracks, became witnesses to the Holocaust through observing the distinctive new “traffic”
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Working around exclusive infrastructure – African workers and their families navigating race and gender on Rhodesia Railways, 1945–1964 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Friedrich N. Ammermann, Nicole E.N. Sithole
This paper explores the myriad ways African railwaymen and their families negotiated their existence on the Rhodesia Railways. Through racial and gendered differentiation of its labour force, the Rhodesia Railways fostered an exclusive work and home environment that resulted in restricted and regulated access to certain jobs, benefits and accommodation. However, Africans worked around these limitations
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Finding the archival traces of “misery trains”: Early accounts of train transport before the Holocaust The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Christine Schmidt
This article analyses a collection of eyewitness accounts by survivors of Nazi persecution gathered in the mid-1950s by the Wiener Library in London, narratives that were elicited about lived experiences of railway transport and trauma, as well as the implication of railway personnel and structures in resistance activities. The accounts provide an opportunity to interrogate early postwar narratives
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A nostalgic trip? Klaus Rifbjerg’s “På Sporet af den Tabte Vogn” and the Copenhagen tramway The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Adam Borch
For much of the twentieth century, the tramway was the most important public transport system in Copenhagen, Denmark. It played a crucial role in the life of the city and features strongly in Danish art and literature produced during the network's lifespan as well as after it was finally closed in 1972. Despite this, the tramway has only received scarce scholarly attention. This article looks to address
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Railing through reality: Trains and mobility in Victorian ghost stories The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Alicia Barnes
This paper explores the multifaceted cultural history of ghost trains in Victorian fiction by situating three little-known ghost stories in the publishing and social history of the second half of the nineteenth century. The figure of the ghost train offers a route into the entangled history of publishing and railways by contextualising the anxieties presented in railway ghost stories with the real-world
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Passages and rebates: Colonial officers and the shift from sea to air travel in the 1940s The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Ronen Shamir
Passengers seldom appear in historical accounts as having their own role in the development of civil aviation. This study identifies a particular class of air-travellers: colonial officers and their families, stationed throughout the British Empire, who in the late 1940s drove a shift to the air at a time of an acute crisis in shipping accommodations. The drive from sea to air relied on an administrative
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New behavioural economics and its influence on USA passenger airline management and policies The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Kenneth John Button
The essay examines the history of interactions between academic thinkers and the application of their ideas to airline management and policy. Many studies of the history of transport focus on developments in engineering hardware and business models underlying its use, together with historical biographies of the key individuals involved. Here I deviate from this to look at how, over the past half-century
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Book Review: Iran in Motion. Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway by Mikiya Koyagi The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sara Zanotta
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Pedalling in Pahlavi Iran: Cycle mobility and competing masculinities The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Mikiya Koyagi
Using Persian memoirs, periodicals, and photographs, this essay examines how Iranians integrated the bicycle into their everyday lives in the rapidly changing socioeconomic contexts of the Pahlavi period (1925–1979). It seeks to achieve two goals. First, by drawing comparisons from different geographical contexts, it illustrates how Iran's comparatively belated encounter with bicycle technology shaped
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Skotovoz, pripiski and the “law of labour settlement”: Transportation planning and management in the USSR The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Egor Muleev
Transport specialists in the USSR persistently called for mathematical expressions of fundamental laws in urban transportation, to assist the development of efficient transportation systems. However, the specificity of the planned economy meant that these appeals did not receive substantial financial support. In response to challenges such as falsified data and political interference, practitioners
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Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana L Oaxaca Carrasco, Cole Matthews, Madison Ritsema
Much uncertainty remains about effective messaging to boost public support for COVID-19 mitigation efforts, especially among people of color. We investigate the relationship between interview langu...
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Antibacterial effect and biological reaction of calcium phosphate cement impregnated with iodine for use in bone defects The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Sei Morinaga, Norio Yamamoto, Masaharu Tokoro, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Akihiko Takeuchi, Shinji Miwa, Kentaro Igarashi, Yuta Taniguchi, Yohei Asano, Takayuki Nojima, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Calcium phosphate cement (CPC) is often used to repair bone defects that occur after bone tumor and fracture treatment. To address bone defect cases with a high infection risk, developing CPCs with...
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Racemose Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Cause of Rapidly Progressive Dementia—A Case Report The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Witoon Mitarnun
This report describes the case of a 68-year-old woman with episodic memory impairment for 6 months. Brain magnetic resonance imaging detected multiple extra-axial variable-sized cystic lesions in t...
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The Prevalence and Characteristics of Children With Profound Autism, 15 Sites, United States, 2000-2016 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Michelle M. Hughes, Kelly A. Shaw, Monica DiRienzo, Maureen S. Durkin, Amy Esler, Jennifer Hall-Lande, Lisa Wiggins, Walter Zahorodny, Alison Singer, Matthew J. Maenner
Objectives:Autism spectrum disorder (autism) is a heterogeneous condition that poses challenges in describing the needs of individuals with autism and making prognoses about future outcomes. We app...
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Emerging Adulthood: Impacts of Adult Care on Education, Work, and Well-Being The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Somalis Chy
An increasing number of young adults are providing unpaid care to an older or dependent family member or friend. However, we know little about the relationship between adult caregiving and emerging...
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A Book Review of ‘Basics of Child Neuropsychology: A Primer for Educators and Clinicians' by Stephen R Hooper The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Anna Moore
A Book Review of ‘Basics of Child Neuropsychology: A Primer for Educators and Clinicians' by Stephen R. Hooper.
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Serum Metabolomics Combined With 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing to Analyze the Changes of Intestinal Flora in Rats With MI and the Intervention Effect of Fuling-Guizhi The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Yan Ye, Jianghua Liu, Dan Zheng, Xiangfa Zeng, Zhenxiang Zhou, Lintao Han, Ping Huang, Fengyun Zhang, Wusheng Wang, Xuan Cheng, Fang Huang, Bailu Duan
Objective: This research aimed to assess the relationship between intestinal flora and metabolites in rats with myocardial ischemia (MI) and to offer a new perspective to elucidate the pathological...
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“Wanna get married?”: The taxi driver transportation network at the marriage mill of Elkton, Maryland, 1913–1941 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Seth Epstein
This article examines the development of a taxi drivers’ transportation network in the “marriage mill” of Elkton, Maryland between 1913 and 1941. It explores how legal conditions for marriage engen...
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The struggle over pedestrians: Defining the problems of walking in the 1960s and 1970s The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Tiina Männistö-Funk
This paper considers the negotiations around walking in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s as a symbolic struggle. Quickly changing urban environment and high traffic fatality numbers brought pedestria...
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Threatening mobility: Cycling during World War II from a Ukrainian perspective The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Olha Martynyuk
Although bicycles hardly figure in studies of World War II, their use was often a life-and-death matter. This article explores cycling in Ukraine as part of survival strategies and as an object of ...
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Hidden from history: Carriage cleaners in the United Kingdom from 1849 to COVID-19 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Julia Winterson
The story of carriage cleaners has been sadly neglected in the history of railway workers. The work has low pay, it is sometimes unpleasant, and it is also physically tough. This panorama paper exp...
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The landscape of Route 854 in Israel's Galilee: Integrating nature, construction, and art in the service of a national project The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Efrat Hildesheim, Tal Alon-Mozes
The article unfolds a micro-narrative historical case study that explores the process of building Route 854 and the intricate relations between landscape architecture and highway design. Employing ...
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Small-scale shipping and the maritime commerce of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Alexei Kraikovski
The paper discusses the history of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg coastal shipping in the context of the Early Modern European coastal transportation growth. Based on the sources significantly u...
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“The water flows under the bridge and we pass above it …” infrastructure, transport and state power: The bridges of Hyderabad city, India c. sixteenth to twentieth centuries The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Benjamin B. Cohen
In the late sixteenth century and again in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the rulers of Golconda and Hyderabad (India) faced a problem of urban congestion around the Musi River. The r...
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Railroad investment and regional disparity: Public expenditure on transport infrastructure in France, 1837–57 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Yuqing Zhu
Regional equality was an important issue in French public investment in railroads from 1837, when the French State first intervened financially to facilitate railroad construction to 1857, when the...
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A barrier to sustainable transports? Path dependence and the Swedish tax deduction for commuting The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Thomas Pettersson, Johan Jansson, Urban Lindgren
We explore the decisions in Parliament about the Swedish tax deduction for commuting since the 1980s. The aim is to explain the continuity of the tax regulation despite several attempts from motion...
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Mobile cultures and the Anthropocene The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Nathalie Roseau
Research on mobility has shown considerable interest in promoting an interdisciplinary approach to history in order to renew knowledge of transport. Among the issues brought to light by these persp...
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The growth of a research field: A systematic analysis of Brazilian theses and dissertations on railways (1974–2020) The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Tamires Saccharine Lico, Andreza Vellasco Gomes, Nicolle Oliveira Rocha, Eduardo Romero de Oliveira
This paper aims to conduct a critical review of the academic works on railway history in Brazil. We read and analysed 492 theses and dissertations by graduate students in Brazil (published from 197...
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Emulating the “pucker factor”: Faith, fidelity and flight simulation in Australia, 1936–58 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Peter Hobbins
In the two decades after 1936, the assessment and instruction of aviators was transformed by adopting synthetic training aids. These devices were typified by the Link Trainer, an ersatz aeroplane t...
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Editorial: A fundamental threat to our field The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Mike Esbester
When we write Editorials, we like to focus on the positives: particularly developments in our field, to which you and we are contributing; exciting plans; provocations designed to stimulate and inspire.
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Transport history methodology: New trends and perspectives The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Massimo Moraglio
This issue is a collection of papers regarding methodology in transport history. These papers represent the answer to JTH’s CfP launched in 2020 on the topic of transport history ontologies.
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The motorcycle as identity construct and performance affect: Three real-life examples for whom transport alone was not enough The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 James J. Ward
At a time when the future of the internal combustion engine-powered motorcycle, if not the industry as a whole, seems clouded, it may be appropriate to reflect on the importance of the two-wheeled vehicle as a cultural artefact – that is, its importance in the creation of an identity and a self-image for its owner and rider. This article examines this subject through the examples of three figures for
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Ontologies on collision course: Collaborative mobility v. managerial transport in the contemporary history of intelligent transport systems The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Daniel Normark
Is mobility ontologically different than transport? This essay contributes to this contentious question by looking at the frictions and failures of merging intelligent transport systems (ITS) with mobile information and communication technologies (mobile-ICT). Adopting a methodological approach from science and technology studies (STS), which focus on (political) ontologies, enables us to follow the
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A new place for transport in urban network theory: The urban logistic network The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Giovanni Favero, Michael-W. Serruys, Miki Sugiura
Transport history has developed in close association with urban network theory. However, this association has often remained implicit and not conceptualised. This article starts from an overview of the historiography on urban networks to question the limitations of historical urban network theory by highlighting the connection between an incomplete mapping of hinterlands and the prevalence of a neo-Christallerian
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Contributions to the post-World War II History of High-Speed Ground Transport in the United States The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 James Cohen
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Food for thought: Transport within the food supply chain The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Thomas Spain,David A. Turner
Recently Hayden and Zunino Singh wrote in the Journal of Transport History of the greater need to study food movement. Whilst accepting their general premise, we argue that they downplay the fact that the evolution of logistics and supply chains has received sparse attention in the historical literature. Using case studies of the domestic British milk trade (1919–c.1945) and international quail trade
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Getting Off Track: the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project in an International Context The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Jonathan English
The Northeast Corridor Improvement Project aimed to upgrade the most important passenger route in the country so that it could support high-speed trains. By the early 1970s, North America's rail network had been in decline for decades. However, the energy crisis and strong congressional support prompted a policy of reinvestment. Execution of the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project was plagued with
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Book Review: Pere Marquette: A Michigan Railroad System before 1900 by Graydon M. Meints The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Thomas C. Cornillie
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High-speed rail and barriers to innovation: The Budd Company and the limits of US indirect industrial policy in the 1960s and 1970s The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Jonathan Michael Feldman
This study examines the Metroliner passenger rail trains manufactured by the Budd Company in the 1960s and 1970s. I show that while transportation companies and the government facilitated the development of a high(er) speed rail line and trains, this procurement process was not sufficient for sustaining Budd as a national rail producer. This case study is based on government documents, interviews,
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Maintaining aircraft manufacturing through government purchases: Australia and Canada from the end of the Second World War until the 1970s The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Malcolm Abbott
In this article, a comparison is provided of the alternative Australian and Canadian government procurement policies for military aircraft in the post-Second World War period. Procurement was used by both governments to maintain manufacturing capacity that was established in the Second World War. By undertaking this analysis, the differing characteristics of the two policies are highlighted. In both
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Development of a futuristic technology programme: How the aerospace industry (almost) transformed ground transportation in the United States (1960–1972) The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 James K Cohen
After a long policy development process under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 was enacted. Section One of the Act called for developing futuristic ground transport systems with, for example, high-speed vehicles floating on cushions of air over specialised guideways and inside vacuum tubes. These unconventional technologies were conceived and promoted
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Book Review: Elbeschiffe für den neuen Staat. Die Abtretungen deutscher Schleppdampfer und Kähne an die Tschechoslowakei – Zur 100sten Wiederkehr des Jahrestages des „Elbe“-Schiedsspruchs von Paris vom 14. Juni 1921 [Elbe Ships for the New State. The Cessions of German Tugboats and Barges to Czechoslovakia - On the 100th Anniversary of the "Elbe" Arbitral Decree of Paris of 14 June 1921] by Harald The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Ivan Jakubec
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Reviewing Latin American railway historiography: New trends and research avenues The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Antonio Santamaría García
Latin-American railways have not general-comparative historical studies, although more recent publications generated valuable contributions to knowledge. The content and approach of the latest research resonate better into the international historiographical debates, incorporating perspectives that go beyond the national bias of previous works, avowing the previous stress on the region backwardness
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To the mutual benefit of the member states. Nordic transnational road cooperation, 1956–1966 The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Martin Eriksson
This article deals with the Nordic Council as a cooperation organ for building transnational roads outside of the E-road network during the period 1956–1966. The Nordic experience of planning and interconnecting transnational roads is related to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) and the development of the E-road network. It is noted that whereas the E-road network built on an
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Book Review: Riding the New York Subway. The Invention of the Modern Passenger by Stefan Höhne The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Dhan Zunino Singh
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Private agendas and the public good: The contested development of high-speed passenger rail transport in the United States The Journal of Transport History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Albert J. Churella
During the 1960s, the United States Department of Commerce (and later the Department of Transportation) cooperated with the Pennsylvania Railroad (later, Penn Central) to develop the Metroliner, an American version of the Japanese Shinkansen. Federal officials possessed overtly political motives, including an effort to build political support for the Democratic Party in the heavily urbanized Northeast