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リニア中央新幹線で毎日はどう変わる？ どんな未来になる？ いろんな人に聞いてみた How will the Central Linear Railway change our daily lives? What kind of future will it bring? We asked a lot of people. When JR Tokai asked people to submit their "vision of the future" for 2020, they received more than 10,000 responses. Some were...

Governor and others criticize Chairman of Expert panel: The Chairman's talk "is a waste of time": The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's expert panel (chaired by Fukuoka Shouji, a professor at Chuo University's Research and Development Organization) has issued a writ...

The small booklet can be downloaded as pdf on the Japanese website of JR Tokai, but it is quite hard to find. Therefore here as pdf document in the attachment. 2021-04-JR_Tokai_Maglev_miraibook.pdf The document has just 8 pages and some Japanese text, some drawings and phoros. Please always turn on ...

Redevelopment of Shin-Osaka area: Shin-Osaka Station is expected to change drastically A large-scale project is already underway to build a Maglev line connecting Shinagawa Station in Tokyo to Shin-Osaka Station via Nagoya Station, with a view to opening the entire line in 2037. It will take only 6...

Citizens' group in Kakegawa signs petition of 3,650 people to the governor to "not allow the start of construction" 　On April 7, a citizens' group called "Ogasa-Kakegawa Association for Protecting the Water and Nature of the Oigawa River from Linear," headed by Katsuyuki Sano, s...

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has announced that the minutes of a meeting of experts on the Shizuoka construction zone of the Central Shinkansen Line were not prepared as said, and some parts were added or deleted after the fact. The Ministry of Land, Infrastruct...

Biden’s vision for trains as fast as planes would require dramatic technological process. The fastest train being introduced for public use — Japan’s L0 Series Maglev — will operate at a maximum speed of 310 miles per hour when it opens in 2027. By contrast, the top speed of the Boeing 747 passenge...

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6. Apr 2021, 21:08

Recently, I heard somewhere that the Cobra Maglev stopped operation. Is that true? If yes, does anyone know why?

Could be funding and health issues, the Corona epidemic is hitting Brazil hard, too.

"Maglev to Destroy Habitat, Climate" ? By Randal O'Toole A proposed maglev line between Washington and Baltimore will disrupt 1,000 acres of “parks, recreational facilities and wetlands,” according to a recently released draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the project. That’s ...

Sunk costs instead of Linear Shinkansen Effect? The following text is a summary and translation of a guest post by a Japanese psychologist on Yahoo Japan News. The article deals with the consequences of videoconferencing and asks whether the construction of the Japanese high-speed maglev system is ...

https://www.nctcog.org/nctcg/media/Transportation/DocsMaps/Plan/Transit/HSR-logo-blue.png Source: Logo of DFW High-Speed Transportation Connections Project Accessed: 2021-04-05 The DFW High-Speed Transportation Connections Study will review high-speed options in the Dallas to Fort Worth corridor by...

Interesting website about the TVE (Transrapid Maglev Test facility), in German language, with many historical photos and videos. https://www.industriedenkmal.de/transport-verkehr/transrapid-und-transrapid-versuchsanlage-emsland-tve/ https://www.industriedenkmal.de/transport-verkehr/ Accessed: 2021-0...

Shizuoka Prefecture is concerned that the water balance in the important Oi River will be severely disrupted by the construction of the tunnel for the Japanese high-speed Maglev system. The river is of considerable importance for the drinking water supply of some 600,000 people in the prefecture and...

To my knowledge, this is the first time that there are official statements from the political side in China that the HSR program as a whole is financially loss-making and entails high follow-up costs in its operation that cannot be covered by ticket revenues. The costs and deficits appear to be subs...

China looks to slow growth of struggling high-speed rail BAI YUJIE and LU YUTONG, Caixin April 1, 2021 00:30 JST https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/China-looks-to-slow-growth-of-struggling-high-speed-rail Accessed: 2021-04-04 China is introducing guidelines to limit new high-speed rail constr...

PR China's National Transportation Plan 2021-2035 CHINA has published its ambitious National Transportation Plan 2021-2035, according to which the rail network is to expand to 70,000 km [43,500 mi] of high-speed lines and 130,000 km [80,800] of conventional lines by 2035. It focuses on the developm...

High Speed Maglev Planning Study for St. Petersburg - Moscow In Russian transport route planning up to 2035, the use of maglev technology should also to be investigated for the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed line. In this context, the maglev system is to be compared with a wheel/rail high-speed s...

Virgin Hyperloop has released a video for marketing purposes that shows a visionary journey for Hyperloop passengers using this ultra-high-speed transportation system. The film is intended to generate interest in this system in particular, as it addresses what seems to particularly intrigue proponen...

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On behalf of the construction company Max Bögl, the Berlin-based architecture firm "Graft" has created a visualization of a maglev system in an urban area in the vicinity of Berlin's main train station. The visualization includes the depiction of the track, vehicles and stations of a fully...