Shuttle train

Airport shuttles run between an airport terminal and one or more other locations, such as another terminal, a railway station or car park; often a combination of these locations. These are generally in the form of a driverless people mover or automated guideway transit (AGT). Examples include:

Italy

• Pisa: A shuttle train connects Pisa Aeroporto with Pisa Centrale. The journey takes five minutes.

United Kingdom

• London: The Gatwick Airport Shuttle Transit is a people mover used to transfer passengers between the North and South Terminals at London Gatwick Airport. The journey takes two minutes.

United States

• Oakland, California: Oakland Airport Connector is an AGT system which connects Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport terminal to Coliseum station, an interchange station on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) rapid transit system.

• New Jersey: AirTrain Newark is a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated people mover at Newark Liberty International Airport. It connects terminals with car parks and its railway station, where passengers can interchange for Amtrak and NJ Transit rail services.

A shuttle train may be used to carry commuters, especially if at least one of the shuttle train's stations is an interchange.

Austria

• The National Intermodal Network Austria, operated by Rail Cargo Austria, uses a hub-and-spoke system of shuttle trains to provide overnight links between the highest volume intermodal freight terminals in Austria. The hub of the network is located at Wels.

Bangladesh

• The Chattogram University shuttle train is operated by Bangladesh Railway eastern division and monitored by university authority. Trains leave Chattogram and Sholoshohor; city-bound trains leave Chattogram University.

China

• The Line 6 of the Suzhou Metro operates a shuttle service between Nanxiebu and Sangtiandao.

Hong Kong

• The MTR Disneyland Resort line is a themed shuttle line linking the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort with the rest of the network. Another shuttle train runs between the Tseung Kwan O and LOHAS Park stations, on a spur serving a new residential development.

Japan

• Tokyo: The Tobu Daishi Line is a 1.0 km (0.62 mi) railway line consisting of two stations. Trains operate every 10 minutes with Nishiarai Station being an interchange to the Tobu Skytree Line.
• Nagoya: During the morning rush hour, a supplementary shuttle train on the Aichi Loop Line operates between Mikawa-Toyota Station and Shin-Toyota Station; this caters for large number of commuters interchanging from the Meitetsu railway lines at Toyotashi Station (adjacent to Shin-Toyota Station) travelling to the various Toyota manufacturing plants and commercial offices in the vicinity of Mikawa-Toyota Station.

Spain

The R line, part of the Madrid subway, is a shuttle line connecting Ópera station (lines 2 and 5) with Príncipe Pío station (lines 6 and 10), which is also connected to Renfe commuter rail lines.

Switzerland

• The Zermatt shuttle connects the mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt with nearby Täsch, where people travelling to and from Zermatt by motor vehicles are required to park their cars. The service takes 12 minutes.

United Kingdom

• The Waterloo and City Line on the London Underground runs between Waterloo and Bank in the City.
• The Slough to Windsor & Eton Line runs between Slough and Windsor & Eton Central.
• The Butetown Branch Line runs between Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Bay
• The Stourbridge Town branch line runs between Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town
• Regular shuttle trains run in Colchester, Essex, between Colchester North and the more centrally-located Colchester Town.

United States

• New York: There are three shuttle services in the New York City Subway, as well as several other non-shuttle services cut back to shuttle portions during overnights. However, of these services, only the 42nd Street Shuttle is a true shuttle that stops only at two locations. Five shuttle services were formerly run in the subway.
• Chicago: The Yellow Line on the Chicago "L" originally ran as a non-stop shuttle from Dempster Street in Skokie to Howard Street, offering connections to the Red and Purple Lines. In 2012, an infill station opened on Oakton Street, no longer making the Yellow Line a true shuttle.

A car shuttle train is used to transport accompanied automobiles and usually also other types of road vehicles, for a relatively short distance. Car shuttle trains usually operate on lines passing through a rail tunnel and connecting two places not easily accessible to each other by road. On car shuttle train services, the occupants of the road vehicles being carried on the train usually stay with their vehicle throughout the journey.

Unit trains that are dedicated to move on a regular basis between origin and destination are known as shuttle trains by the Union Pacific Railroad and the BNSF Railway