Call for Papers Australian Transport Research Forum

“Shaping the Future - linking research, policy and outcomes”
35th Australian Transport Research Forum
26-28 September 2012

Perth, Australia

The theme is Shaping the Future, and there are two broad sub-themes which they are interested in: Urban Areas - catching up with population growth and Regional Areas - catching up with resources demands.

Abstracts due: 31 January 2012
Papers for review due: 1 May 2012

For more info: http://wired.ivvy.com/event/DLXB3A/

Call for Papers: 'Revisiting the Transportation Revolution'

Revisiting the Transportation Revolution
Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Vancouver, British Columbia
21-23 September, 2012

Generations of economic historians have written extensively about the economic impact of the transportation improvements. Nevertheless, new tools, new data, and new techniques derived from geographic information systems, economic geography, and the like continue to offer better measures of the impact of the improvements in roads, ships, railroads, and planes (and the infrastructure which support them). They also provide new insights into the short and long term effects of these changes and how they have shaped our world by diminishing the importance of space and place. Once upon a time, distance in the form of time and money protected producers and isolated communities and cultures. Improved communications and transportation have eroded these—a process which continues to this day as these technologies evolve.

Deadline for papers and session proposals: Friday, 27 January, 2012 to ensure consideration.
Deadline for application for poster session: Friday, 18 May, 2012
For more information: http://eh.net/eha/meetings/2012-meeting