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Future Train
Future Train
Speeding at 430 kilometers an hour, a futuristic magnetic levitation train turns the 30 kilometer journey from the Pudong International Airport to Shanghai's new financial center into an eight-minute joyride. As the world's first operating electromagnetic levitation train system, the MAGLEV travels at lightening speed and could change the way we look at train technology forever. As a transportation system it is fast, safe and energy efficient but the Shanghai line remains the only magnetic levitation train in commercial operation despite decades of research and countless proposals. What is slowing MAGLEV down?