Maglev NET - Maglev Trains & Magnetic Levitation

Ray LaHood, Secretary of U.S. Transportation Department rode on a 312 mph (502 kph) maglev train in Japan, hoping that Japan would be able to sell the technology to them. After the 27 minute ride at a test track in Yamanashi, West of Tokyo, LaHood said that the time has ...

No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou , just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time. A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result ...

The Georgia Department of Transportation is currently in the middle of an environmental impact study on a proposed Maglev corridor from Atlanta to Chattanooga. The officials want to raise about $3.9 million to complete the Maglev study by the end of the year. Several counties who had pledged last year ...

China’s first home grown sample maglev train has been completed, making China the third country able to design and produce the trains after Germany and Japan. The maximum speed of this train is 500 kilometers per hour. It is expected to take its pilot run on the maglev line in ...

Officials in east China’s Zhejiang province have cancelled the plans to start the construction of the maglev train service between Shanghai and the provincial capital Hangzhou. According to a statement issued by the provincial development and reform commission on Tuesday, the project had no timetable and was still undergoing feasibility ...