Intermodal transport

type of cargo ship

cargo transport using multiple types of vehicles

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port on an inland waterway

process of shipping loaded trucks on railway cars

railway car designed to carry double stacked intermodal shipping containers

thumb|A transloading facility in Texas, between rail and road transport Transloading, also known as cross-docking, is the process of transferring a shipment from one mode of transportation to another. It is most commonly employed when one mode cannot be used for the entire trip, such as when goods must be shipped internationally from one inland point to another. Such a trip might require transport by truck to an airport, then by airplane overseas, and then by another truck to its destination; or it might involve bulk material (such as coal) loaded to rail at the mine and then transferred to a

form of intermodal transport

thumb|right|Loaded Modalohr wagon thumb|Modalohr wagon in loading position The Lohr Railway System or Modalohr System () uses special railway wagons of a type known as piggyback wagons, to carry standard road semi-trailers on the European rail network. They are currently used on the AFF route from France to Italy and Luxembourg to the French border with Spain and vice versa. There are plans to expand this service. They have also been approved for the Channel Tunnel. This articulated railway wagon consists of two low-floor decks, resting on a single Y25 jacobs bogie in the middle and on two Y3

thumb|First CargoBeamer train on the Gotthard railway|Gotthard railway line, April 2015, pulled by [[BLS Cargo]] Cargobeamer is an intermodal transport system. It involves specially designed pallets which can be carried on a road trailer; the pallets are fitted on top of flatcars but can slide sideways to allow trucks to drive on and off smoothly at intermodal terminals. A first testing terminal was opened in Leipzig in Germany; trial runs between Leipzig and Lithuania were planned in November 2010. Since July 2021, the first full CargoBeamer terminal is available to the public transport marke

Co-modality is a notion introduced by the European Commission in 2006 in the field of the transport policy to define an approach of the globality of the transport modes and of their combinations.

shuttle train used to transport accompanied cars, and usually also other types of road vehicles

riding on another person's back