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Greg

Dear colleague
>
>Please find below the Call for Papers for the Transport Geography 
>Research Group's sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, to be held 
>in London between 30 August and 1 September.
>
>Unfortunately, the deadline for the call is pressing - *31 January 
>2006* in the first instance.  We are likely to be able to accept papers 
>for some time after this date, but would ask that (at least) 
>expressions of interest be submitted before the end of January if at 
>all possible. Please respond to the respective session convener.
>
>If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me. I'd also 
>be grateful if you could forward this message to other interested 
colleagues.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Iain Docherty
>TGRG Chair
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>
>RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2006
>London, 30 August - 1 September
>http://www.rgs.org/category.php?Page=ac2006
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>Transport Geography Research Group Sessions
>
>Abstracts of 100-200 words are invited for short 15 minute papers as 
>part of the two TGRG sessions:
>
>Gendered Mobilities
>Convener - TBC (submissions in the first instance to Dr Jon Shaw, 
>University of Aberdeen, [log in to unmask])
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>Individuals’ life experiences are deeply affected by the levels of 
>mobility and accessibility they enjoy. Research demonstrates that these 
>opportunities are very unevenly distributed, with access to car 
>ownership and to public transport services varying significantly 
>between socio-economic groups. The issue of how gender impacts on 
>people’s transport experiences ­ and, as a result, their access to 
>services, the labour market and other life chances ­ is gaining 
>increasing prominence. Although past research has tended to focus on 
>specific issues such as gender differentials in access to the private 
>car, contemporary research reveals the much broader importance of these 
>distinctions; from the physical design of public transport vehicles to 
>the design and marketing of cars and transport services. This session 
>is designed to bring together researchers from this variety of 
>disciplinary traditions and viewpoints and in so doing highlight the 
centrality of gender to transport geography research.
>
>
>Gateway Cities
>Convener - Dr Iain Docherty, University of Glasgow, 
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>Cities are complex webs of transport routes, nodes and services. Within 
>such complex networks, major gateways play an increasingly important 
>role in defining the overall structure of the urban transport fabric, 
>the journey choices people make and the images they retain of the 
>places in which their journeys occur. In recent years, the importance 
>of gateways has been emphasised in urban development strategies, with 
>major airports, ports and railway stations becoming the centre of 
>attention in numerous masterplans for economic regeneration. Major new 
>urban quarters around the world are being developed around these 
>critical nodes, which themselves reorientate the wider city structure 
>at the metropolitan scale. The award of the 2012 Olympic Games to 
>London, and the associated regeneration of the east of the city which 
>is built upon massive investment in physical transport infrastructure, 
>has brought renewed focus on the importance of gateways as spaces and 
>places in their own right, but also as a “shop window” for the cities 
>and regions they serve. This session will bring together transport 
>researchers to discuss how transport interacts with the urban fabric, and 
to explore how gateways help create and are created by their host cities.