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Combi-Road is a container road transport system with high capacity. The system uses specially designed tracks which can be constructed as separate roads or as extra lanes alongside existing motorways. The containers are pulled on semi-trailers by unmanned automatically controlled electrical vehicles. The system allows to reduce the amount of vertical handlings in the transport chain. On so-called transfer stations containers are exchanged with sea shipping, road, railway and inland shipping. The Combi-Road project started January 1994. During the process of development the innovative technological nature of the concept has been strongly emphasized. In an early stage the implementation strategy has been paid attention to. This paper describes the basic technical details of the Combi-Road system, as well as the results of the initial test phase which has been completed by the end of 1996.