Northeast Regional Conservation Committee High Speed Rail Task Force

Magnetic Levitation

Note that the High Speed Rail Task Force has not had the opportunity to gather sufficient information about this futuristic technology to evaluate its complete impact on the many environmental issues of interest to the Sierra Club!

• High Speed Rail Section of the Federal Railroad Administration within the US Department of Transportation
  • The MAGLEV Deployment Program
• Baltimore-Washington MagLev Project (Project Web Site)
• Pennsylvania Project - High Speed MagLev (Project Web Site)
• Magnetic Levitation for Transportation at RailServe (Personal Web Site)
• RUMBA - A Universal Transport System of the Future (Personal Web Site)
• Magnetic Levitation Trains at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Web Site
• Magnetic Levitation at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Web Site
• Magnetic-levitation train debuts in Shanghai at the MSNBC Television News
• Hearing on Magnetic Levitation Transportation Issues at US House of Representatives
• Inductrack Approach to Magnetic Levitation at Michigan State University - Physics & Astronomy
• National Maglev Initiative at the About - Inventors Web Site
• How Maglev Trains Work at How Stuff Works Web Site
• American Maglev Technology Inc. (Commercial Web Site)
• Magnetic Levitation Kingdom (Personal Web Site)
• Railway Technology Today at Japan Railway & Technology Review
  • 12-1. Superconducting Maglev Developed by RTRI and JR Central
  • 12-2. Normal-conducting HSST Maglev
  • 13. New Types of Guided Transport
• Magnetic Levitation from Tech Ed section of C E Brown Middle School of Newton, MA
  • Links
  • Software, Lessons & Activities
• Transrapid (Commercial Web Sites)
• Transrapid International-USA
• Transrapid International (Headquarters)
• Energy Wise Options for State and Local Governments By Michael Totten and Nita Settina
  • High Speed Rail and Magnetic Levitation
• SkyTran- Personal Passive MagLev Transit (Commercial Web Site)
• Magnetic attraction: High speed trains (December 13, 2001 - Christian Science Monitor)
• Railway Technical Research Institute [in Japan] (Research Center Web Site)
  • Maglev Systems Development
• M³Urban Maglev System at MagneMotion (Commercial Web Site)
• Magplane (Commercial Web Site)
• Cimarron Technology, Ltd. (Corporate Web Site)
  • Integrated Transportation System
    • General Information
    • Technical Report
    • Essays - Transportation in the Post-Petroleum World
• MagLev Monorail Pages at The Monorail Society (Non-profit Organization)

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