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This paper describes how roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) railway and seaway concepts refer to regular, frequent, heavy vehicle transport that offer permitting modal transfer through concentration of goods flows on rail and sea itineraries. Existing experiences reveal that the success of such services depends on a number of prior conditions and requires the adhesion of road transport companies. While unaccompanied transport appears to be a more economically relevant solution than accompanied transport, it does nevertheless impose major organizational constraints and meeting of market requirements. The paper controlled by the Setra and presented here reflects thinking on relevance criteria governing long-distance unaccompanied goods transport. Its aim is to understand how a road transport company would use an unaccompanied transport service and the conditions under which it would be ready to do so. The first part of the study comprised a bibliographical analysis of existing work on the subject. Thirty or so interviews are then conducted at French and Italian transport companies using the Autoroute Ferroviaire Alpine and the Toulon – Civitavecchia roll-on/roll-off seaway. Analysis of these interviews allows the author to provide solutions to the problem raised by these transport modes.
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