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DDD is the transport of a complete road vehicle, accompanied by the driver, using another mode of transport (for example ferry or train).[1] This form of intermodal passenger transport has been, and still is, relatively common in Europe, where accompanied road vehicles have been transported by air in the past, and are still frequently transported by either rail or water.
Accompanied combined transport by air
Between 1948 and about 1980, there were several routes in Europe on which accompanied road vehicles were carried by aircraft, initially with the Bristol Type 170 Freighter, and then with the Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair. [2]
Accompanied combined transport by rail
Introduction
There are three basic types of rail service on which accompanied road vehicles may be carried:
- A car shuttle train is a train used to transport cars, or automobiles, and usually also other types of road vehicle, a relatively short distance while accompanied by their occupants. This type of rail service usually transports accompanied road vehicles through a rail tunnel connecting two places not easily accessible to each other by road.
- A motorail service is a passenger train, on which passengers can take their car or automobile along with them on their journey. Passengers are carried in normal passenger cars or in sleeping cars on longer journeys, while the cars or automobiles are loaded into autoracks, car carriers, or flatcars.
- A rolling highway (originating from the German designation Rollende Autobahn, also known as Rollende Landstrasse ("rolling country road"), abbreviated RoLa), is a combined transport system used to transport trucks or lorries by rail, accompanied by their drivers travelling in a passenger car with seats or beds.
The following examples of rail services involving accompanied combined transport are presently confined to car shuttle trains.
Car shuttle trains
Austria
- Böckstein (Salzburg) – Mallnitz-Obervellach (Carinthia): Autoschleuse Tauernbahn (ÖBB)
France – United Kingdom
Accompanied road vehicles are carried in closed railway wagons through the Channel Tunnel between Sangatte (Pas-de-Calais, France) and Cheriton (Kent, United Kingdom).
Germany
The DB AutoZug SyltShuttle transports road vehicles on railway wagons over the Hindenburgdamm from Niebüll to Westerland in Sylt (or in the opposite direction).
Switzerland
The following car shuttle trains (Swiss German: Autoverlad) operate in Switzerland (mostly through tunnels):
- Andermatt (UR) - Sedrun (GR): Oberalp (MGB)
- Brig (VS) - Iselle (Italy): Simplon (SBB)
- Kandersteg (BE) - Goppenstein (VS): Lötschberg (no road connection) (BLS)
- Kandersteg (BE) - Iselle (Italien): Lötschberg und Simplon (BLS)
- Oberwald (VS) - Realp (UR): Furka (MGB)
- Selfranga (GR) - Sagliains (GR): Vereina Tunnel (instead of the drive over the Flüelapass) (RhB)
- Thusis (GR) - Samedan (GR): Albula (as an alternative to the Julierpass) (RhB)
Up until the opening of the Gotthard Road Tunnel in 1980, there was also a car shuttle train through the Gotthard Rail Tunnel between Göschenen und Airolo. Following the catastrophic fire in the road tunnel on 24 October 2001, this car shuttle train resumed operations for a few weeks.[3]
Accompanied combined transport by water
Car ferry
Hovercraft
Between 1968 and 2000, several hovercraft services transported accompanied road vehicles between Calais in France and either Dover or Ramsgate in the United Kingdom.