Talk:Rolling highway

Duplicate page or missing information

The article "Rollende Landstraße" or "Rolling Road" is highly related, almost identical. Either Rollende Landstraße should be merged with this article or some key information about Rollende Landstraße should be added here (currently completely missing in this article). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qx2020 (talk • contribs) 15:22, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Piggyback transport

The correct term was "piggyback transport". "Rolling highway" and/or "Rolling Road" are very simple (almost stupid) translations from the German. Sorry. --Popmuseum (talk) 06:28, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

In the recent years the terms "rolling road" or "rolling highway" became familiar in Austria and Germany as the English translation for the German term "Rollende Landstraße".

Nowadays even "Rail Cargo Austria" ( www.railcargo.at ) and "Ökombi" ( www.oekombi.at ) are using the wrong terms "Rolling highway" and/or "Rolling Road" instead of "Piggyback transport". - This is why I reverted the changes I have made before. Kind regards --Popmuseum (talk) 08:49, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

KRCL calls it RORO, Roll On Roll Off. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:17, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

piggyback & Piggy-back train in Bairdstown. Best. --Popmuseum (talk) 20:21, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

As far as I know it is called "RORO, Roll On Roll Off," when ships are involved: train - ship or car - ship. Best --Popmuseum (talk) 08:16, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Refs

The article has NO refs at all, outside the India section, which AFAIR, I added back in 2009. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:18, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

What about the Chunnel?

What about the Channel tunnel under the English Channel? Is that not an example of this? --Bruce Hall (talk) 19:15, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

• Le shuttle just fills a gap in the road network, as does e.g. the Lötschberg car shuttle. The idea of a rolling highway is to keep truck traffic off highways and thus usually runs in parallel to existing road infrastructure over much longer distances (usually at least a few hundred km). That is quite a different use case. There are many other differences as well, e.g. on rolling highways the drivers usually have some sort of sleeping car and do not stay in the trucks, loading/unloading times are much longer, service frequency is usually only once a day, rolling highways are not used by the general public etc. --Kabelleger (talk) 22:59, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
• The Eurotunnel Shuttle is a form of car shuttle train, although it carries trucks as well as cars. Whereas rolling highway services usually operate over long distances, a car shuttle train usually connects two places only a short distance apart, via a tunnel. Bahnfrend (talk) 12:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Rolling road

Rolling road should redlink instead of redirecting here. A rolling road is a moving surface used in automotive wind tunnels. Bizzybody (talk) 05:37, 18 November 2014 (UTC) Peter Horn User talk 01:47, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

France

Since Lorry-Rail does not carry tractors and drivers, it should not be cited, although it uses the same kind of rolling stock as teh Autoroute Ferroviaire Alpine (AFA). In addition, the AFA is an hybrid system, since part of the trailers travel alone, and use different tractors and drivers at each side of the train trip. Coccodrillo (talk) 16:46, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Statement not supported?

"An early approach in France was the Kangourou wagonPiggyback transport in the 60s video in French with modified trailers. This technology did not survive, due to the market resistance to modified trailers."
This statement does not appear to be supported by fr:Wagon kangourou Peter Horn User talk 03:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

fr:Wagon kangourou mentions that the concept was adapted to carry any semi-trailer. Peter Horn User talk 19:27, 30 August 2021 (UTC)