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Maglev – Future of High Speed Rail?

• Long Wave Theories and Infrastructures

• Actual developments on globalized markets

• Requirements for future transportation infrastructures

• Maglev properties

• European projects and networks

• Worldwide maglev projects

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Long-Wave-Theories and Infrastructures

1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050

Growth

Wave I1805

Steam/MechanicsTrade

Wave II1865

Coal/StealTraffic

Wave III1920

Electricity/ChemistryEnergy

Wave IV1970

Oil/ElectronicsCommunication

Wave V2020

Nuclear Power/ITKnowledge

Canals1836

Rails1891

Roads1946

Air2002

Maglev?2060

10-15years

10-15years

10-15years

10-15years

Linking specific cities

Linking regions(national)

Covering Areas(decentralization)

Linking Metropoles (international)

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Locations and Infrastructures

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Actual developments on globalized markets

• Increasing spezialisation and complexity of organisation in networks or project companies.

• Shift from mass production (Fordistic) to flexible, individualized production (Post-Fordistic).

• Demographic changes and increasing importance of innovative clusters and regions.

• Spatial and interactional expansion of economic areas and concentration on metropolitan areas due to Globalization.

• Temporal distance, not spatial, is the determining factor.

• Limited capacities on existing railway networks.

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Requirements for future transportation infrastructures

• Available and flexible

• Short trip times despite intermediate stops.

• Safe and reliable

• Low costs

• Ecologically consistent

• Fit to regional settlement structure.

Interconnect flexible and innovative clusters and regions in a network.

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Maglev properties

• Linear acceleration

short trip times

more intermediate stops

• Ecological consistent

land consumption

flexible alignment

energy efficient

low emissions

low maintenance costs

• Life-cycle-efficient

low operational costs

fast return on investment

• Safe and reliable

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Comparison of House-to-House trip times

210‘av.v = 99 km/h (61mph)

Congestions?Stress?

Flexible!

185‘

av.v = 107 km/h (66mph)

time saving 25 min

transfer times 45 min

Car

DB

LH

TR

175‘time saving car 35 min

time saving DB 10 mintransfer times 125 min

125‘av.v = 159 km/h (99 mph)

time saving car 85 min (40 %)time saving DB 60 min (32 %)time saving LH 50 min (29 %)transfer times 40 min

D B DB

Frequency?Delay?

Comfort!

Delay?Tranfers?

Costs?

Stops: 4, vmax = 250 km/h (155 mph)

Stops: 8, vmax = 400 km/h (250 mph)

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European projects and networks

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CHUANYANG HE

Long Yang Road Station

SHANGHAI

Yangpu Bridge

Nanpu Bridge

People’s Square

WUSONG KOU

HUANGPU

JIAN

G

Pudong International

Airport Station

Wuxi

Shanghai

Nanjing

LAKE TAI Hu

JIANGSU

Suzhou

ANHUI

ZHEJIANG

• 172 km (107 miles)

• 5 stations

• 37 minutes

Worldwide maglev projectsChina

• 30 km (18 miles)

Shanghai – Hangzhou

• 2 stations

• 8 minutes

Shanghai – Nanjing

Shanghai International Airport – Long Yang Road

• 86 km (53 miles)

• 5 stations

• 54 minutes

• 60,000 runs

• 1,250 days

• 7 Mio. passangers

• 2.5 Mio. km

• 99.91% availability

• 293 km (182 miles)

• 3 stations

• 44 minutes

Shanghai – Newport City

JIANGSU

ShanghaiLong Yang RoadSuzhou

HANGZHOU BAYZHEJIANG

Hangzhou

Jiaxing Newport City

Nanpu

LAKE TAI HU

HuinanShanghaiSouth

SHANGHAI

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Worldwide maglev projectsUnited States

Pittsburgh Airport - Pittsburgh-Greensburg

Las Vegas - Los Angeles

Baltimore - Washington

• 63 km (39 miles)

• 3 stations

• 19 minutesBaltimore

Washington D.C.

Baltimore-Washington-International Airport

MARYLAND

CHESA-PEAKEBAY

PENNSYLVANIA

PITTSBURGH

PittsburghInternational Airport

Monroeville

Greensburg

DowntownPittsburgh

• 87 km (54 miles)

• 5 stations

• 35 minutes

Los Angeles

Barstow

Primm

Las Vegas

CALIFORNIA

NEVADA

PACIFICOCEAN

• 56 km (35 miles)

• 2 stations

• 11 minutes

CALIFORNIA

SAN BERNADINO

PasadenaWest Los Angeles

Union Station

West CovinaOntario

ORANGE

RIVER SIDE

PACIFICOCEAN

LOS ANGELES

• 87 km (54 miles)

• 4 stations

• 32 minutes

Los Angeles Regional Network

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Why maglev?

• 70th: new systems needed to reach HighSpeed

• 90th: railways with 300 – 350 km/h (180 – 215 mph)

• Airtravel is adequate system to link metropolitan regions in globalized markets.

• Maglev is adequat system for regional and transcontinental networks.

• Maglev is to bring short international trip times by airtravel into the regions.

• Maglev strengthens smaller regions and links them to international markets.

• Maglev strengthens Railway companies in the fight for market shares and benefits.

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Maglev is the future of modern high-speed transportation.

• Which region will give the major impulse for the implementation of this innovative transportation system?

• Europe? Asia? America?