The superconducting magnetic levitated train of Japanese National Railways at Miyazaki achieved its experimental target speed of 500 km/hr by reaching the world record of 517 km/hr in December 1979. The development project of high speed linear motor propulsion train levitated by superconducting magnet, Maglev, was started in 1970 by aiming at construction of a new mass-transportation system in 1980s to replace the Shin-Kansen, namely Bullet Train. After ten years of R and D, the project has completed successfully its first development phase at Miyazaki by establishing technical basis of the system and it is moving to a new phase to demonstrate commercial use of the train. The test-track in Miyazaki was constructed in 1977 with an inverted T-shape guideway of about 7 km, and test vehicle of ML-500 series were tested. Now a part of the guideway was changed to a U shape in 1980 and experiments of new vehicle of MLU-001 series by 2 or 3 car make-up with board refrigerators and capacity of carring 2 persons was started.
Superconducting magnetic levitation train project in Japan
Supraleitende Magnetschwebebahn - Projekt in Japan
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics ; 17 , 5 ; 2338-2342
1981
5 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 3 Tabellen, 3 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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