Rolling Highway
technology
Also known as: Rollende Landstrasse
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intermodal transportation
- In railroad: Operations
…technology called “Rolling Highway” (Rollende Landstrasse), because it employs low-floor cars that, coupled into a train, form an uninterrupted drive-on, drive-off roadway for highway trucks or tractor-trailer rigs. Rolling Highway cars are carried on four- or six-axle trucks with wheels of only 36-cm (14-inch) diameter so as to lower…
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