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[quote user="owlsroost"][quote user="martin.knoepfel"] Two types of bimodal equipment have been tested in Europe: Combitrailer and Road-Railer. AFAIK, neither has been a breakthrough. Perhaps, that is due to the European railroads inability to adopt one technology. Combitrailers and Road-Railers are not compatible. [/quote] I suspect it has more to do with the specialist (=expensive) equipment compared to using standard container flats(rail)/skeletal semi-trailers(road) carrying swap-bodies (lightweight containers) for the same traffic. The extra terminal equipment to handle containers compared to bimodal only really amounts to a mobile container crane - basically an oversized fork-lift truck - at it's simplest.[/quote] I am not familiar with the Combitrailer, the links from a web search either don't work or give sparse information.  But the RoadRailers are not container haulers but dry vans and reefers, at least in NA, although there was a Chinese version of RoadRailer called ContainerRailer that was tried out a while back.  The RailRunner system is simpler and superior to the RoadRailer technology for moving containers in a bi-modal fashion, and could move swapbodies (the European version of US-style domestic containers?) as easily as ISO containers.  The biggest advantage of a RailRunner system in Europe is the ability to create an independent dispersion terminal on the cheap outside the constraints of established inland terminals, so a 3rd party OA operator would not have to conform to any potential restrictions of the public inland terminal.
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