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	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| Probably the world's fastest train
		Maglev - shorthand for magnetic levitation - is basically a train that floats on an electromagnetic cushion, which is propelled along a guideway at incredible speeds.
		The maglev link could cut the journey time to one hour but the enormous cost of building a new network is more than the country can afford.
		A prototype maglev shuttle did run between Birmingham airport and a nearby railway terminal, but was abandoned in 1995 because it was unreliable.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/feature/story/0,13026,1122916,00.html (1189 words)

	Technology education Product 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maglev is a generic term for any transportation system in which vehicles are suspended and guided by magnetic forces.
		Pioneering maglev research was done in the U.S. from the late 1960's until 1975 when all federally funded work was canceled.
		High speed maglev is now at the point railroads were at in the 1820's - plans are being made and groundbreaking appears likely.
	www.casdfalcons.org /EastTechEd/maglev.htm (1172 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| The magnetic attraction of trains
		The Maglev shuttle between Birmingham International Airport and the nearby railway terminal was abandoned in 1995 because it was unreliable.
		Maglev is a magnetic levitation system for railways - it uses a combination of magnetic attraction and magnetic repulsion for lift and forward movement.
		Berlin had a Maglev train that ran for a few years in the city and the technology may return on a line between Hamburg and Berlin.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/488394.stm (611 words)

	Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) for Transportation
		Little maglev research was accomplished in the United States and in 1986, the government stopped all funding toward maglev technology.
		Maglev trains can accelerate from 0 to 300 km/hour within 5 km compared to the German ICE high-speed train which requires about 30 km to reach the same speed.
		Maglev systems are even better prepared for icy conditions because they do not require overhead power lines nor pantographs - parts that are subject to freezing on conventional railroads.
	www.railserve.com /maglev.html (3237 words)

	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Is Maglev in our future? - How does it work? How long is it? These and other key Q’s and ...
		The technology is not only different, but the Civic Arena maglev would operate outdoors instead of underground; on a 7 percent grade instead of on level; and encompass a 250-foot turn instead of a straight guideway like the people mover.
		Maglev cars are to contain recessed emergency wheels, so if the cars lose their levitation, they can still ride on the guideway.
		Since low-speed maglev cars are one-sixth the weight of high-speed maglev and since magnetic coils don’t have to be imbedded in the guideway, the much lighter elevated dual guideway can be built on T-shaped concrete columns 3 feet in diameter.
	www.post-gazette.com /maglev/maglev01.asp (1384 words)

	SUNON
		The patented MagLev design is based on magnetic principles and forces that not only propel the fan but also ensure stable rotation over its entire 360 degrees of movement.
		This MagLev plate and the imbedded magnets in the fan blades together generate comprehensive vertical magnetic forces, which is the MagLev flux, the unique patented invention of MagLev motor fan.
		MagLev design helps the rotor to rotate evenly in a fixed orbit within the orbit center without any friction with the bearing bore.No vibration occurred.
	www.sunon.com.tw /english/wealth/tech/tech-05.htm (2320 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Maglev Trains Work"
		However, there is a new form of transportation on the horizon that could possibly revolutionize transportation of the 21st century the way airplanes did in the 20th century.
		A few countries are using powerful electromagnets to develop high-speed trains, called maglev trains.
		Maglev is short for magnetic levitation, which means that these trains will float over a guideway using the basic principles of magnets to replace the old steel wheel and track trains.
	travel.howstuffworks.com /maglev-train.htm (204 words)

	FAQS
		Maglev is a type of transportation technology that utilizes electromagnetic force to propel vehicles on a guideway without the need for rails or wheels.
		The speed of a maglev vehicle is based on the frequency of the electromagnetic fields in the guideway.
		Maglev's key advantages over high speed rail and other modes of transportation are its hill climbing ability, rapid acceleration, low noise, zero emissions, dedicated right away, low land use requirements and lower energy usage.
	www.maglevpa.com /faq.html (4957 words)

	Not a bird or plane, just Shanghai's new Maglev, the world's fastest train
		Longest-awaited, too, since it's been an astonishing seven decades since the invention of the process that was finally put to a test on the next-to-the-last day of last year, when Premier Zhu Rongji took an inaugural ride with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany, which helped fund and build this line.
		Indeed, the Maglev is faster than any speeding locomotive precisely because it's as much like a plane as any railroad we've known.
		On the other side of the country, Maglev-backers are lobbying congress to fund a 92-mile circuit between three Southern California airports that could be expanded to a 273-mile web designed to relieve the region's gridlock.
	www.gluckman.com /Maglev.html (1019 words)

	NASA Explorers News: Launching Rockets with Magnets (10/22/99)
		Maglev systems could dramatically reduce the cost of getting to space because they’re powered by electricity, an inexpensive energy source that stays on the ground — unlike rocket fuel that adds weight and cost to a launch vehicle.
		But because maglev uses off-board electricity for launch assist, the weight of the vehicle at liftoff is about 20% less than a typical rocket." This makes getting to space less expensive.
		Maglev uses the simple technology of magnets to levitate the vehicle so it is not touching anything.
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /News/1999/News-MagLev.asp (1048 words)

	The Maglev 2000 of Florida Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) is a new mode of transport, in which high speed vehicles are magnetically levitated and propelled along elevated guideways.
		Maglev promises to be a major mode of transport in the 21st Century, even more important than autos, trucks and airplanes.
		The Maglev 2000 of Florida Corporation is developing and implementing this new mode of transport.
	www.maglev2000.com (119 words)

	The Maglev 2000 of Florida Corporation
		The Japanese vehicles are full size, commercial type maglev vehicles that run on the JR (Japan Railways) u-shaped guideway.
		Following the completion of their maglev test program at Yamanashi, Japan Railways will decide on whether to proceed with the planned 300 mile Tokyo to Osaka maglev system.
		Maglev "trains", consisting of up to 14 vehicles attached together, will make the 300 mile trip in approximately 1 hour.
	www.maglev2000.com /today/today-03.html (269 words)

	MAGLEV New Mode of Transport
		Maglev is a completely new mode of transport that will join the ship, the wheel, and the airplane as a mainstay in moving people and goods throughout the world.
		Maglev guideways will last for 50 years or more with minimal maintenance, because there is no mechanical contact and wear, and because the vehicle loads are uniformly distributed, rather than concentrated at wheels.
		It pushes the Maglev vehicles at a constant speed that is fixed by the frequency of the AC current in the LSM loops, regardless of whether there are head or tail winds, or the vehicles are climbing or descending a grade.
	www.21stcenturysciencetech.com /articles/Summer03/maglev2.html (2270 words)

	Maglev high speed ground transportation worldwide view and Quicklinks
		Magnetic levitation (Maglev) is an advanced technology in which magnetic forces lift, propel, and guide a vehicle over a guideway (usually elevated).
		Because of its higher speed, Maglev may be able to offer competitive trip-time savings to auto and aviation modes in the 40- to 600-mile travel markets–an needed travel option for the 21st century.
		Maglev 2000 of Florida - an effort to develop a prototype maglev technology based on the work of Drs.
	faculty.washington.edu /~jbs/itrans/maglevq.htm (1329 words)

	maglev
		Keeping this kind of Maglev train airborne and in smooth motion requires advanced, extremely accurate feedback circuits and very strict engineering tolerances.
		The other type of Maglev uses super-conducting coils embedded in the guideway and electromagnets in the train cars to establish the levitation.
		maglev's), and a linear induction motor - moves and brakes the vehicle on the track.
	www.stmary.ws /highschool/physics/98/maglev.html (508 words)

	Wired News: China Awaits High-Speed 'Maglev'
		The 30-km (18-mile) maglev line, built using German technology from Transrapid International at a cost of more than $1.2 billion, is launching sometime in summer 2003.
		The high speeds of the maglev, or magnetic levitation, trains are possible because there is no friction between the track and the train's wheel.
		Maglev's supporters, however, were buoyed by the Shanghai train's high-profile maiden voyage on New Year's Eve, when German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji travelled at more than 430 kmh on the Shanghai Transrapid line.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,57163,00.html (888 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Maglev Trains Work"
		The big difference between a maglev train and a conventional train is that maglev trains do not have an engine -- at least not the kind of engine used to pull typical train cars along steel tracks.
		Maglev trains float on a cushion of air, eliminating friction.
		Developers say that maglev trains will eventually link cities that are up to 1,000 miles (1,609 km) apart.
	travel.howstuffworks.com /maglev-train1.htm (438 words)

	Maglev Trains
		Although maglevs don't use steel wheel on steel rail usually associated with trains, the dictionary definition of a train is a long line of vehicles travelling in the same direction - it is a train.
		Maglev trains wouldn't be able to do that, they would be limited to where maglev lines run.
		Maglev may become the preferred path for new high speed railway lines although it would depend whether or not services were needed to stretch beyond a high speed line.
	www.o-keating.com /hsr/maglev.htm (1086 words)

	Maglev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Magnetic levitation, or Maglev for short, is just what its name suggests; it uses magnets to levitate an object.
		Due to the lack of friction between the train and the surface it is riding on, practically all vibrations and bumps are eliminated.
		The advantages of the Maglev don’t stop there; speed is also a big part of what it has to offer.
	umsis.miami.edu /~jgawron/maglev.html (622 words)

	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Is Maglev in our future? - Many hurdles before maglev is able to get off the ground
		David O’Loughlin, president of the nonprofit Western Pennsylvania Maglev Development Corp., said the high-tech transit system, supposed to put a 21st-century face on Pittsburgh, could be finished in about three years.
		Maglev, which uses powerful electromagnets to "float" and power people-mover cars along an elevated guideway, is a two-part proposal.
		Officials at General Atomics, the San Diego company that is providing the maglev technology for the system, have indicated they are growing impatient, although they have not set a deadline.
	www.post-gazette.com /maglev (1448 words)

	maglev on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The flying train takes off: maglev is airborne, but American business is not at the controls.
		Le Maglev lancé mardi sur la voie expérimentale à l'ouest de Tokyo Le train japonais Maglev à lévitation magnétique a batt.
		Scott Denham uses a computer to check on the maglev train being developed in Edgewater, Florida, which is destined to run on the campus of Old Dominion University.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-maglev.asp (596 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A test ride at the foot of Mount Fuji on a magnetically levitated (maglev) train is proving extremely popular with curious people who want to experience a ride on the world's fastest train, which runs at a speed of 500 kph.
		The maglev floats on a magnetic field, eliminating wheel friction at high speeds.
		An unmanned maglev has sped to a new world record of more than 550 kph, topping the speed record for conventional trains held by the French TGV, which hit 515 kph in 1990.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020611b1.htm (517 words)

	Maglev Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maglev is primarily used in high speed rail and monorails.
		The record speed for a trainset propelled by maglev is 552 km/h, accomplished in Japan, in April 1999.
		Maglev research and development began in Japan in 1970, using superconducting magnets.
	cede.psu.edu /~dbieryla/maglev (148 words)

	Maglev - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		California-Nevada Maglev Project Remains Viable Candidate for Federal Funding : An article from: Inland Empire Business Journal
		Maglev could transform Southern California's commuting problem : An article from: Inland Empire Business Journal
		Scientists use permanent magnets in Maglev applications : An article from: JOM
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /maglev.htm (126 words)

	Maglev Monorails of the World - Shanghai, China
		Despite the fact that the maglev was the first revenue-producing point-to-point high-speed maglev in the world, the system was up and running by 2004.
		A world record for commercial maglev systems was set on November 12, 2003.
		Shanghai Maglev is the fastest railway system in commercial operation in the world.
	www.monorails.org /tMspages/MagShang.html (147 words)

	"Ticket to Ride," Feature Article, Oct. 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		High-speed maglev trains hover within reach of the United States, as China puts one on the ground.
		Statistical projections for the Berlin-Hamburg maglev project, canceled two years ago with a change of party majority in the nation's government, anticipated only one hour's worth of "non-station" stops for every two years of operation, said Manfred Wackers, Transrapid's marketing director in Germany.
		The next transportation bill in 1998 made maglev an issue of deployment rather than development, with Congress concluding that reinventing maglev domestically was imprudent given the state of existing technology.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/oct02/features/ticketto/ticketto.html (2966 words)

	World's First Commercial Maglev Line Debuts in Shanghai
		The maglev system, noted Premier Zhu, is characterized by high capacity, fast speed, low energy consumption, safety performance and minimal environmental effects, and "it has wide prospects for development with a great potential to benefit China both economically and socially."
		Engineers have assured that the effect of the magnetic force of the maglev system on passengers and nearby areas is minimal, since the effect on humans is thus less than that of most electric household appliances.
		Gerhard Wahl, chief coordinator of the German side, said that, although the maglev technologies were developed in Germany, the first commercial line was built in China, which places China at the forefront of the maglev technologies.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/1231-01.htm (1005 words)

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