Event

Welcome to attend an interesting seminar about Traffic safety with history and culture in mind! The idea is to break different perspectives against each other and also bring about a dialogue between academics and practitioners.

PROGRAM

Thursday October 5

17:00: Opening of the symposium at Chalmers University of Technology Public keynote presentation by Professor Claes Tingvall. Venue Chalmers Campus, Vasa building, lecture hall Vasa A

18:30: Reception, entrance hall of the Vasa building

Friday October 6

Symposium, venue Chalmersska huset, Pelarsalen

8:00: Opening and introduction
8:30: Keynote: Ruth Oldenziel presents the new book Cycling Cities: The European Experience: Hundred Years of Policy and Practice
9:00: Panel discussion: Traffic Safety and Traffic Planning Shaping the Cycling and Pedestrian Mobility.

Chair: Anna Nilsson-Ehle (Chairman of Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency)
Discussants:
• Michael Koucky (Consultant in Sustainable Transport, Koucky & Partners AB)
• Maria Krafft (Director of Traffic Safety and Sustainability, Swedish Transport Administration)
• Malin Månsson (Cycling Strategist, Gothenburg City)
• Ruth Oldenziel (Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology)

10:15–12:00 Session: Traffic Safety Shaping the City

Chair: Arnaud Passalacqua
• M. Luísa Sousa: Past Futures: How Experts Envisioned Urban Mobility in the Twentieth Century
• Per Lundin: Safety in the Car City: The Swedish Case
• Gijs Mom: The Richer, the Safer: A Global Comparison

Comment from the Field: Pelle Envall (Trafikutredningsbyrån)

12:00: Lunch at the Chalmersska huset

13:15–15:00: Session: City Space and Pedestrian Tactics

Chair: Carlos Lopez Galviz
• Colin Pooley: The Pedestrian City: Historical Perspectives
• Tiina Männistö-Funk: 100 Years of Pedestrian Practices in the Changing Street Space
• Ann Legeby: Knowing Pedestrians (TBC)

Comment from the Field: Malin Andersson (Trafikkontoret, Gothenburg City)

15:00: Coffee

15:30–17.15: Session: Traffic Safety and Social Justice

Chair: Anna Dubois, Vice-President Chalmers Areas of Advance
• Geetam Tiwari (TRIPP Chair, IIT Delhi): Traffic Safety of Captive Cyclists: Mobility Justice in Indian Cities
• Haixiao Pan (Tongji University, Shanghai): Mobility for All? Mobility Justice in Rapidly Urbanizing Cities: The Case of Shanghai
• Peter Norton: History as Agenda Legitimation: U.S. Urban Mobility Trajectories

Comment from the Field: Claes Tingvall (Chalmers and ÅF)

17:15–17:30: Concluding discussion