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- The railway's potential. Glover, John // Logistics & Transport Focus;Jan2010, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p24
The article explores the potential of the proposed High-Speed 2 railway network in Great Britain. Emphasis is given on the need to compromise the opposing goals of the railway's capacity, reliability, speed and use of different train types. Other aspects that need to be addressed are the...
- Routing for the Pennsylvania Maglev system by a genetic algorithm. Cao, Y-Y; Lin, Z.; Giras, T. C.; Disk, D. R. // Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers -- Part F;Mar2006, Vol. 220 Issue 1, p55
The scheduling of vehicle movement activities is an important component in highspeed railway transit operations planning process. This paper presents a mathematical programming approach to vehicle routing for the Pennsylvania Transrapid Maglev Train System. A mathematical model of the routing...
- Superfast Trains of the Future. Dubowski, Mark // Superfast Trains;2006, p26
The article provides information on Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) trains being developed by engineers for the U.S. According to engineers Gordon Danby and James Powell, Maglev trains can go thousands of miles per hour by building special tunnels. The engineers are said to be planning to make the...
- Trains of the future. Farndon, John // Buildings & Transportation;2003, p58
Monorails are single beam tracks raised over city streets. Monorails of the future may be air-cushion trains or magnetic levitation vehicles. Personalized rapid transport is a system of small vehicles that run on elevated tracks at high speed. Most high speed trains run on special straight...
- Maglev protests rise up in Japan. // Earth Island Journal;Spring91, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p18
Describes a national campaign in Japan which aims to oppose the government's plan to build a high-speed train powered by magnetic levitation. Association of maglev trains to high power consumption, nuclear plants and hazardous waves of non-ionizing radiation.
- Vegas bets on mag-lev line. Angelo, William J. // ENR: Engineering News-Record;2/19/96, Vol. 236 Issue 7, p15
Reports on developments related to the possible construction of a magnetically-levitated transportation link between Las Vegas, Nevada and California. Evaluation of the guideway technology; Financing plans; Discussions with regulatory agencies.
- Floating trains fly into the future. Wickelgren, Ingrid; Gray, Daryl // Current Events;01/22/99, Vol. 84 Issue 10, p4
Focuses on the construction of a magnetic levitation railroad by German engineers to be used for high-speed trains. Application of magnetic force for levitating the trains; Pull of the train from the change in the polarity; Protection of the passengers from magnetism.
- Levitation techniques. // Current Events;01/22/99, Vol. 84 Issue 10, p5
Describes the Transrapid and the Inductract high speed trains. Installation of electromagnets to be activated by electricity; Creation of electric current by the imbedded magnets.
