Stephen Joseph, director of Transport 2000, said road trains "have no place on Britain's country lanes and town centres".
The SARTRE project stands for Safe Road Trains for the Environment.
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Systems are being developed in prototype form that will facilitate the safe adoption of road trains on un-modified public highways with full interaction with non-platoon vehicles.
ENGADGET: Volvo's driverless road train in Spain is public mainly on the plain (video)
To define a set of acceptable platooning strategies that will allow road trains to operate on public highways without changes to the road and roadside infrastructure.
ENGADGET: Volvo's driverless road train in Spain is public mainly on the plain (video)
The estimated fuel consumption saving for high speed highway operation of road trains is in the region of 20 percent depending on vehicle spacing and geometry.
ENGADGET: Volvo's driverless road train in Spain is public mainly on the plain (video)
It will accommodate Long Island Rail Road trains that now bypass Manhattan's East Side as they roll east through Queens and straight to Pennsylvania Station on the island's West Side.
The trucking industry is starting the switch, with compressed natural gas being used in local delivery trucks and liquefied natural gas in over-the-road trucks, trains and barges.
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If you are in any of those cities, you may have to sit tight in your hotel, since access to the capital has been restricted and there are disruptions with road travel and trains.
The firm said it would try to provide road transport or stop faster trains if there was a "significant wait".
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But while trains have resumed, road conditions in France remain difficult as snow has turned major motorways into ice traps, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said.
Long Island Rail Road is adding extra late-night trains to accommodate fans.
They included a tunnel, a bridge or for road traffic to use a nearby railway when trains were not using it.
More people using buses and trains would take cars off the road.
From April, Northern Line trains will not stop at Tottenham Court Road for eight months.
An M4 relief road south of Newport, electrification of valley lines trains - two schemes Prof Morgan believes would benefit Wales' economy.
Trains are unable to run between Manchester Oxford Road and Salford Crescent and Manchester Victoria and Earlestown.
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The snow and cold weather has caused disruption across Lancashire with trains suspended and the closure of a main road.
Trains were unable to run between Manchester Oxford Road and Salford Crescent, Manchester Victoria and Earlestown and Bolton and Manchester Piccadilly.
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