29 years of hard work and research on magnetic levitation trains in the United States of America is beginning to pay off. The Federal Railroad Administration SAFETEA-LU Maglev Program has announced a grant of $ 28 million on 10th of September 2009 for the maglev project in Pennsylvania, which adds to the previous amount of [...]
The grand city of Shanghai, China might be gearing up for the world expo to be held in May 2010, but with a few hiccups; the greatest of them being the maglev train project from Shanghai to Hangzhou. According to the protesting residents of Xihuan suburb in Western Shanghai, they had no idea about the [...]
A new revolution in the transport system is called “Sky-Tran”. The project is being developed by Unimodel, a mountain view based company. It says that the system uses magnetic field to propel pods, which commute between portals via cables elevated 8 to 15 feet above roads. The cables in this project are meant to be [...]
