公路列车，实为多车节的挂接车辆，是全世界最长的车种，可以长达50米，为澳大利亚偏远地区常用于运输物资的主要交通工具。在美国、加拿大、墨西哥也有使用。最早已知的公路列车出现在南澳大利亚的奥古斯塔港地区。第二次布尔战争期间，英军使用了武装的公路列车。一般认为澳大利亚人Kurt Johansson是现代公路列车的发明者，他在20世纪中叶设计了能运送100头牛的列车。
外部链接
- Australian Road Train Association
- Australian National Heavy Vehicles Accreditation Scheme.
- Northern Territory Road Train road safety TV commercials.
- South Australian Roads road train gazette
- NSW Roads and Traffic Authority road train operators gazette
- NSW Roads and Traffic Authority Restricted Access Vehicles route map index
- NSW Roads and Traffic Authority Reflective sign standards
- U.S. department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Chapter VII, Safety.
- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Western Uniformity Scenario Analysis.
- British Columbia Government Licensing Buletin 6
- British Columbia Government Licensing Buletin 41
- Roadmap of technologies able to halve energy use per passenger mile includes the dynamically coupled, heterogeneous type of roadtrain
- Road trains and electrification of transport