Jan Ploeger, Het verstandshuwelijk van fiets en trein: Kansrijke ketenmobiliteit sinds 1900 (TUE, 2024). Link page Back flap: In de zoektocht naar een alternatief voor de auto geldt steeds vaker de combinatie van de flexibele fiets met het snelle treinvervoer tussen compacte 15-minuten steden als kansrijke oplossing. Het Verstandshuwelijk van fiets en trein beschrijft het
Guest editors: Stathis Arapostathis & Frank Veraart ICON Vol. 28.1 (2023): 1-179 https://www.icohtec.org/icon/volume-28-issue-1-2023/ https://www.icohtec.org/icon/volume-28-issue-1-2023/ Stathis Arapostathis and Frank Veraart Introduction: Entangling Technological Infrastructures, Material Flows and Environmental Modernities, p. 9-23 John Martin British Agricultural Revolutions: The Dissemination and Assimilation of More Productive Methods, p. 24-47 Show abstract Sotiris Alexakis and Stathis Arapostathis From Exploitation
van der Straeten, Jonas. 2022. Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh. Historical Social Research 47 (4): 139-167. doi: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.42. Abstract: The transition from fossil fuel-powered to electric mobility is widely discussed as a trajectory towards more efficient, affordable, and sustainable transport infrastructure. Widely ignored in academia, this transition has occurred
Brand, Christian, Henk-Jan Dekker, and Frauke Behrendt. 2022. “Cycling , Climate Change and Air Pollution.” In Advances in Transport Policy and Planning, edited by Eva Heinen and Thomas Götschi, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2022.04.010 Abstract Cycling is considered a healthy and sustainable form of getting from A to B. The net effects of the various forms of
By Patrick Bek The dissertation is available in the TUE repository. Table of contents: Acknowledgements 5Figures 9Introduction 111 Responding to the Transport Mismatch, 1920-1940 352 Protesting Bus Regulations during the Depression, 1926-1938 593 Mobility Austerity during War and Scarcity, 1940-1947 714 Mobility Barriers during Postwar Industrialization, 1947-1970 895 Postwar Mobility Practices, 1947-1970 996 Disciplining Cyclists
By Henk-Jan Dekker LINK Abstract In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, historians have only begun to uncover how and why the Netherlands became the premier cycling country of the world. Why were Dutch cyclists so
Henk-Jan Dekker, "An accident of history? How mopeds boosted Dutch cycling infrastructure (1950–1970)", The Journal of Transport History(2021) https://doi.org/10.1177/00225266211011935
The sociotechnical roots of smart mobility: Bike sharing since 1965 Journal of Transport History. 41, 2, p. 134-159 J. Ploeger, R. Oldenziel 1 Aug 2020 The search for “smart” or Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based mobility solutions goes back to at least the 1960s. The Provo anarchist Luud Schimmelpennink
A U-turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850 Berghahn Books, 2020. Emanuel, Martin, Frank Schipper, and Ruth Oldenziel, eds. From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a
Europe’s infrastructure transition: economy, war, nature Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. (2016), 454 p. Högselius, P., Kaijser, A. & van der Vleuten, E. Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and energy infrastructure to supply food, power, industrial products,