MAGLEV REVISITED: IS EVERYBODY READY THIS TIME?

After a sixteen-year hiatus, U.S.maglev research is resuming. The article reviews some of the advances made by the Japanese and the Germans on the technology, and looks at the possibility of bringing some of that technology into the United States. Both the new funding and some of the currently planned U.S. projects are briefly discussed.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00494488
• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Center for Transportation Studies, Room 1121
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139
• Publication Date: 1991-5

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 4-5
• Serial:
  • Transportation (Netherlands)
  • Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • ISSN: 0049-4488

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Development; Magnetic levitation; Research
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00611401
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1991 12:00AM