One of the challenges of intermodal transport is changing between modes. Despite proximity, transfers can be difficult. One instance is this bus stop inside London (Heathrow) Airport, England. The aircraft is a South African Airways Boeing 747

Intermodal freight transportation utilizes more than one mode of transportation (road, rail, sea, air, etc.) to move goods between an origin and destination. Intermodal passenger transport applies the same concept to moving people. Some modes of transportation have always been intermodal; for example, most major airports have extensive facilities for automobile parking and have good rail or bus connections to the cities nearby. Urban bus systems generally serve train and subway stations and often extend to the local airport. A major goal of modern intermodal passenger transport, at least in developed countries, is to reduce dependence on the automobile as the major mode of ground transportation and increase use of public transport. A public bus stop with an unusual view, inside London (Heathrow) Airport, England. ... A public bus stop with an unusual view, inside London (Heathrow) Airport, England. ... An intermodal train carrying both shipping containers and highway semi-trailers in piggyback service, on flatcars, passes through the Cajon Pass in February, 1995. ... Mode of transport (or means of transport or transport mode or transport modality or form of transport) is a general term for the different kinds of transport facilities that are often used to transport people or cargo. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Skytrain Bangkok. ...

History

Passenger transport has always been intermodal. People switched from carriages to ferries at the edge of a river too deep to ford. In the 19th century, people who lived inland switched from train to ship for overseas voyages. Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey was built to let commuters to New York City from New Jersey switch to ferries to cross the Hudson River in order to get to Manhattan. A massive ferry slip, now in ruins, was incorporated into the terminal building. Later, when a subway was build through tunnels under the Hudson, now called the PATH, a station stop was added to Hoboken Terminal. More recently, the New Jersey Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system has included a stop there, but it is a relatively long walk from the terminal building. Ferry service has recently been revived, but passengers must exit the terminal and walk across the pier to the more modest ferry slip. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, usually with multiple decks. ... Categories: Rail stubs | Transportation in New Jersey ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... A ferry slip is a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Hoboken- and Newark-bound platform at Exchange Place station in Jersey City. ... New Jersey Transit Arrow III at West Windsor, NJ New Jersey Transit RTS-06 in Newark, NJ The end of the Port Jervis Line The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) is a private statewide public transportation system serving the U.S. state of New Jersey. ... Hudson-Bergen Light Rail trains at the Exchange Place stop in Jersey City HBLR train on Hudson Street, near Exchange Place station in Jersey City Harborside Financial Center station, Jersey City The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) is a light rail system, owned by New Jersey Transit and operated by...

Park and Ride

Main article: Park and ride

Intermodal planners try to encourage automobile commuters to make much of their journey by public transport. One of the more successful ways of doing this is to provide parking places in the suburbs near major highways where commuter can leave their cars for the day and take a train or bus into an urban downtown area. a park-and-ride bus in Oxford Park and ride terminals are public transport stations that allow commuters to drive short distances in their personal automobiles to catch a ride on a bus or railroad system (usually classified as light rail or the heavier commuter rail). ...

Train to the plane

Main article: Train-to-the-plane

Another increasingly popular tool for intermodalism is to extend subway and rail service to major urban airports. This provides travelers with an often less expensive and more reliable way to get to their flights than driving, and contending with full up parking, or taking taxis and getting caught in traffic jams on the way to the airport. Many airports now have some mass transit link, including Londons Heathrow Express runs non-stop from Paddington Station to Heathrow Airport. ...

• Heathrow Airport, London
• Baltimore-Washington International Airport near Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington County, Virginia
• O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois
• San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California
• Greater New York City's JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports. See AirTrain

At the Hong Kong International Airport, ferry services to various piers in the Pearl River Delta is provided. Passengers from Guangdong can use these piers to take a flight at the Airport, without passing through customs and immigration control, effectively like having a transit from one flight to another. The Airport is well-connected with expressways and an Airport Express train service. A seaport and logistics facilities will be added in the near future. London Heathrow Airport (IATA airport code: LHR, ICAO airport code: EGLL, and often simply Heathrow) is the United Kingdoms busiest and best-connected airport. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... KBWI Airport Diagram Baltimore-Washington International Airport serves the Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC metro-region. ... Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates: Country State County United States Maryland Independent City... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Color enhanced USGS satellite image of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, taken April 26, 2002. ... This article is the current U.S. Collaboration of the Week. ... ORD redirects here. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... FAA diagram of SFO SFO redirects here. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The City by the Bay; The City That Knows How; Golden Mountain (historic Chinese name) Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Government City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Geographical characteristics Area     City 600. ... John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK) is an international airport located in Jamaica, Queens, in the south-eastern portion of New York City. ... Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA: EWR, ICAO: KEWR), formerly known as Newark International Airport, is an international airport within the city limits of both Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey. ... Airtrain at JFK. Note aluminum strip between rails. ... The interior of the Hong Kong International Airport A replica of the Spirit of Sha Tin displayed at the Hong Kong International Airport in Chek Lap Kok. ... The Pride of Rotterdam, One of the P&O Ferriess Flagships operating the Hull-Rotterdam Route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... Map of Pearl River Delta (details) The Pearl River Delta (PRD, Chinese: 珠江三角洲; Mandarin Pinyin: ZhÅ« Jiāng SānjiÇŽozhōu; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: zyu1 gong1 saam1 gok3 zau1), China, occupies the low-lying areas alongside the Pearl River estuary where the river flows into the South China Sea. ... A passenger is a person using but not operating an airplane, train, bus or other mode of transport. ... China, and should not be confused with the former Kwantung Leased Territory in north-eastern China. ... A pier in Lillebælt, Denmark illustrates the simplest form of pier Southend Pier in England is one of the longest piers, at 1. ... Flight is the process of flying: either movement through the air by aerodynamically generating lift or aerostatically using buoyancy, or movement beyond earths atmosphere by spacecraft. ... Customs duty is a tariff or tax on the import or export of goods. ... The word transit, when used alone, has several possible meanings in English means of transport, including mass transit, rapid transit, public transit, public transport Further information: transit (transportation) in astronomy an event involving two bodies along the same line of sight Further information: astronomical transit in navigational position lines when... An expressway is a divided highway, usually 4 lanes or wider. ... This article is about Apples wireless networking product. ... Categories: Stub | Commercial item transport and distribution | Transportation ... Look up Logistics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Auto trains

Some passenger rail systems offer services that allow travelers to bring their automobiles with them:

• In Austria, several of the regular day and night trains of the Österreichische Bundesbahnen include automobile transport cars.

• In Chile, EFE (Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado) operates a similar service called Autotren (website) between Santiago and Temuco.

• In Finland, VR (website) has a popular automobile-carrying service on their night trains between the south and the north. VR has recently bought 15 new auto carriers for €8 million, and transports 35,000 automobiles a year.

• In France, the SNCF's Auto/train service (website) provides extensive automobile-carrying routes throughout France, also connecting with neighboring countries. In the past, all of the Auto/trains also carried sleeping cars, but many no longer allow passengers to travel on the same train as their automobiles. Typically, passengers drop off their car anytime during the day, then use the TGV or other service to reach their destination, where they can pick up the car anytime the following day. The hub of the Auto/train route system is in Paris at the Gare de Bercy. Three other cities (Avignon, Narbonne, and Fréjus-St-Raphaël) also have specialized stations for the car-carrying service; in other cities the service is operated from a normal passenger facility. The automobiles are carried in open railcars, and for this reason the SNCF offers passengers a free car wash in the arrival city.

• In Germany, DB AutoZug (website) has services from sixteen stations to cities in France, Italy, Austria, and Croatia. These are very popular, with 200,000 automobiles transported yearly and half a million passengers. In 2005, DB AutoZug celebrated 75 years of automobile-and-person-carrying trains.

• First Great Western in the United Kingdom operates the Motorail service between London Paddington and Penzance.

• In the United States the only such service is Auto Train, an 855 mile (1376 km) scheduled train service for passengers and their automobiles, operated by Amtrak between Lorton, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.) and Sanford, Florida (near Orlando).

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Automobiles

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Bicycles

Bicycles are often a good way for people to get to a public transportation station, but they need safe place to leave the bike when they get to the station. Some public transportation systems have provisions for cyclists to take their bicycles on board trains and buses, often at off peak times. See utility cycling Ugandan bicycle taxi or bodaboda Utility cycling encompasses any cycling not done primarily for fitness, recreation such as cycle touring, or sport such as cycle racing, but simply as a means of transport. ...

Transfer facilities

In recent years, an increasing emphasis has been placed on designing facilities that make such transfers easier and more seamless. These are intended to help passengers move from one mode (or form) of transportation to another. An intermodal station may service air, rail, and highway transportation for example.

In some cases, facilities were merged or transferred into a new facility, as at the William F. Walsh Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse, New York or South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. In other cases new facilities, such as the Alewife Station In Cambridge, Massachusetts were built from the start to emphasize intermodalism. The William F. Walsh Regional Transportation Center is the long-distance ground travel (rail and bus) terminal serving the Syracuse, New York area. ... Clinton Square in Syracuse. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (D) Area    - City 232. ... T sign and top of glass pyramid from roof-level parking deck of Alewife Station, September 2004 Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Alewife Brook Parkway and Cambridgepark Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local intermodal transportation hub. ... Cambridge City Hall Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02139 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ...