October 15, 2009
One of the operators of 's famed "bullet trains” is planning to halve the time it presently takes to travel between Tokyo and
Osaka
with the introduction of a cutting-edge maglev vehicle.
Central Japan Railway Co. has unveiled a plan for magnetically levitated trains to travel the 438 km between the nation's two largest cities in just 67 minutes, down from the 138 minutes it takes the most advanced bullet trains today.
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October 11, 2009
Yoshiyuki Kasai, chairman of the Central Japan Railway (CJR), addressed a gathering of transportation officials in Washington in June to extol the virtues of his country’s prodigious highspeed rail technology. Norman Mineta, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, hosted the timely event.
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October 09, 2009
Phyllis Wilkins looks forward to the day when residents of her city will be able to levitate 64 kilometres to
Washington, D.C.
Wilkins is executive director of Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) Maryland, part of the City of
Baltimore
's Development Corp.
And she's a busy woman.
In 2006,
Baltimore
city council voted to build a 64-km long maglev high-speed train line,
for travel at 420 km/h between the city centre and downtown Washington, with one stop in between at
Baltimore
Washington
International
Airport
.
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September 28, 2009
If developers of a magnetic levitation transportation system linking Las Vegas with
Anaheim, Calif.
, are worried about some of the political issues that could hamper their proposed $12 billion project, they didn’t show it Monday night.
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July 31, 2009
Over the past 10 years, our state has competed in, and won, a national competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation to build the first 300 mph magnetic levitation (maglev) train in the Western Hemisphere, with a $45 million guarantee to the state of Nevada to complete final environmental approvals and start construction.
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July 21, 2009
Many ENR readers have watched with interest the recent debate over the proposed Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles high-speed rail corridor running along Interstate 15. Long viewed as a potential maglev project, things got a little murky last month when U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) switched his support from maglev to conventional high-speed steel wheel technology. But what happened in Vegas is not staying there. With the advent of the Obama presidency, rail suddenly is a hot and potentially lucrative topic everywhere.
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June 24, 2009
The future of the Transrapid-test track in Emsland is [set] for the next ten months. Until the end of April 2010, testing will continue. "So let's try for the next ten months to the Transrapid international market and sell," said Lower Saxony's economics minister Philipp Rösler (FDP) on Wednesday.
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June 14, 2009
Washington — Dreamers have long envisioned a fast train to whisk riders between Las Vegas and Southern California.
But probably no one expected that, with $8 billion in federal money available for the smartest proposals across the country, two starkly different proposals for fast trains between Las Vegas and Southern California would compete for the business.
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June 08, 2009
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March 30, 2009
Two Fridays ago, I was at Logan Airport, waiting to catch a flight to New York for a job interview. When I asked the company’s human-resources representative if I should take the Acela train to New York, she laughed, told me I would never get to the office in time for the interview, and booked me a ticket on the Delta shuttle. I saw her point—the "high-speed" Acela can only travel an average of 85 miles per hour. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a close friend of mine from high school was landing at Shanghai Pudong Airport for his semester abroad. He bought a ticket for the brand-new Maglev train from Pudong to the center of the city, covering a distance of twenty miles in seven minutes.
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March 25, 2009
It has been hailed elsewhere as a victory for "people power" in China.
But have the demonstrators who appear to have halted plans for an extension of a hi-tech magnetic levitation train line through the suburbs of Shanghai really triumphed?
Or does their story just highlight the limits on the power that ordinary citizens can enjoy in an authoritarian country like China?
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March 24, 2009
ATLANTA — The state Senate on Monday scrapped a 1 percent statewide sales tax proposal to fund transportation projects in favor of a county-by-county tax supporters say will prevent projects from improperly falling prey to politics.
The move revives Chickamauga Republican Sen. Jeff Mullis’ proposal to allow local governments to go it alone or band together. Working jointly, they could fund projects from paving rural roads in Northwest Georgia to building a maglev train linking Chattanooga and Atlanta. The tax could raise up to $1.2 billion a year for the state and $850 million for metro Atlanta.
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March 24, 2009
Reporting from Nagoya, Japan -- This is a nation addicted to speed.
And to ride Japan's super Shinkansen, or bullet train, is to zip into the future at speeds reaching 186 miles per hour.
These days, Californians dream of a future with high-speed elevated rails that would link Southern California and Las Vegas in less than two hours, or L.A. and San Francisco in just over 2 1/2.
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March 20, 2009
Maryland has an unexpected opportunity to turn the Obama stimulus package into a local triumph. With a little vision and a lot of determination, we can make it happen.
House and Senate conferees inserted language into the stimulus bill that provides $8 billion for high-speed rail systems. The funding was part of President Barack Obama's bold plan to help shift America's transportation priorities and jolt our high-speed rail infrastructure into catching up with what the Europeans, Japanese and Chinese have been doing for decades.
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March 02, 2009
Editorial by Kevin Coates -
Washington hosted the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) annual meeting just prior to President Obama’s inauguration. One month earlier, over 200 participants from 16 countries attended the 20th bi-annual International Maglev Systems Conference in San Diego. Only this year, there were no TRB maglev presentations, nor were there any Federal Railroad Administration or Federal Transit Administration representatives. So, why was the most advanced transport technology conspicuously ignored? Answer: the Bush administration was anti-maglev and discouraged official review or acceptance of the technology.
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