Ponyatie sochlenennaya transportnaya sistema (STS) ves'ma shiroko i vklyuchaet v sebya tselyy spektr transportnykh, tekhnologicheskikh i transportno-tekhnologicheskikh mashin, imeyushchikh, kak minimum, dve sektsii, soedinennye mezhdu soboy sharnirom s odnoy ili bolee stepenyami svobody. Raspredelenie silovogo potoka istochnika energii mezhdu tyagovoy i pritsepnoy (tekhnologicheskoy) sektsiyami STS vedet k sozdaniyu otdel'nogo klassa mashin - aktivnye sochlenennye transportnye sistemy (ASTS). Primenenie ASTS v otraslyakh sel'skogo khozyaystva, lesnogo, neftegazovogo i oboronnogo kompleksov daet vozmozhnost' sozdaniya shirokogo diapazona transportnykh i tekhnologicheskikh sistem. Rassmotreny voprosy teorii dvizheniya avtopoezdov s aktivnymi pritsepami i sochlenennykh gusenichnykh mashin. Opredeleny konstruktivnye resheniya i razrabotany matematicheskie modeli mobil'nykh platform dlya perspektivnykh vidov vooruzheniya. Kniga adresovana nauchnym i inzhenerno-tekhnicheskim rabotnikam, svyazannym s razrabotkoy perspektivnykh kolesnykh i gusenichnykh mashin, prednaznachennykh dlya raboty v slozhnykh dorozhnykh usloviyakh. Kniga mozhet byt' polezna dlya studentov, aspirantov i prepodavateley vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy.