VIDEO: Japan’s Maglev Train Might Replace Air Travel!

Maglev trains are much faster and different from conventional high-speed rail because they use magnets to create both lift and propulsion for the vehicle. They do not have wheels and actually float on the track. After tests, these trains might revolutionize the whole world if they get the final approval.

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The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is widely believed to be the world’s fastest car, but even it can’t hold a candle to a new line of maglev trains that Japan recently tested. The Asian country’s new maglev Shinkansen train reached the record-breaking speed of 501 km/h (311 mph) during its experimental trip from Uenohara to Fuefuki on Saturday. For comparisons, Bugatti Veyron’s world record top speed is 407.12 km/h (252.97 mph), while China’s famous Shanghai Maglev Train – which is the world’s fastest train in regular commercial service – can reach a max speed of 431 km/h (268 mph). This means that when the Japanese maglev train becomes fully operational in commercial sense, it would shatter the previous world record and become the fastest train. Maglev trains are much faster and different from conventional high-speed rail because they use magnets to create both lift and propulsion for the vehicle. They operate without wheels and actually float on the track. While still a lot slower than airplanes, maglev trains cost less time than air travel, thanks to its limited hassle of check-in, security, boarding, etc. A video of the maglev train’s inaugural 27-mile trip is up on the BBC. Considering Japan’s long history with bullet trains, one would think that it would be no big deal for the 100 locals who got to travel on the test trip. But even their faces lit up as the train touched the 500 km/h landmark.

According to Wikipedia, “in the public imagination, “maglev” often evokes the concept of an elevated monorail track with a linear motor. Maglev systems may be a monorail or dual rail and not all monorail trains are maglevs. Some railway transport systems incorporate linear motors but use electromagnetism only for propulsion, without levitating the vehicle. Such trains have wheels and are not maglevs.[note 3] Maglev tracks, monorail or not, can also be constructed at grade (i.e. not elevated). Conversely, non-maglev tracks, monorail or not, can be elevated too. Some maglev trains do incorporate wheels and function like linear motor-propelled wheeled vehicles at slower speeds but “take off” and levitate at higher speeds.
The two notable types of maglev technology are:
Electromagnetic suspension (EMS), electronically controlled electromagnets in the train attract it to a magnetically conductive (usually steel) track.
Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) uses superconducting electromagnets or strong permanent magnets that create a magnetic field, which induces currents in nearby metallic conductors when there is relative movement, which pushes and pulls the train towards the designed levitation position on the guide way.

Another technology, which was designed, proven mathematically, peer-reviewed, and patented, but is, as of May 2015, unbuilt, is a magnetodynamic suspension (MDS). It uses the attractive magnetic force of a permanent magnet array near a steel track to lift the train and hold it in place. Other technologies such as repulsive permanent magnets and superconducting magnets have seen some research.”

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