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The article provides an analysis of the essence of bimodal transport which may be brought down to using special semi-trailers, meeting requirements defined for road semi-trailers as well as railway cars, transported to terminals where they are combined with rail tractors and formed into a train. It also addresses the concept of a bimodal train, which consists in substituting certain subunits of a traditional train with elements of road vehicles, and explains what elements they are. Three groups of design solutions for the bimodal train set assembly have been discussed, these being distinguished by the manner in which semi-trailers are supported on bogies and how they are coupled. They include a system featuring dedicated adapters enabling a semi-trailer to rest on the bogie, a semi-trailer type coupling system and a system ensuring the semi-trailer support on the bogie by means of two independent torsion beams. Names of some of the bimodal transport systems used by individual European railway transport authorities have been collated along with distinctive technical and operating features of the bimodal road and rail transport systems compared. The article has been recapitulated with an analysis of advantages and disadvantages of the combined road and rail cargo transport based on the bimodal technology.
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Mindur, L. (2017). Bimodal Technology Based Concept of Road and Rail Cargo Transport. In: Macioszek, E., Sierpiński, G. (eds) Contemporary Challenges of Transport Systems and Traffic Engineering . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43985-3_8
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