Maglev trains use magnets to levitate above tracks without touching the surface. They are among the fastest modes of transportation, with speeds over 300 mph achieved in tests. While maglev trains provide advantages of high speed, low maintenance and environmental friendliness compared to conventional trains, their development has faced challenges of very high costs to build the necessary infrastructure and maintain the strong magnetic fields required.

1. Magnetic Travel
By BHARAT YADAV

3. The Maglev Train History
In the 1960s in Britain Eric Laithwaite
developed a functional maglev train. His
maglev had 1.6 km of track and was in
detail tested. His research was stopped in
1973 because lack of money and his
progress was not enough. In the
1970s, Germany and Japan also began
research and after some failures both
nations developed mature technologies in
t h e
1990’s……………………………………... Eric Laithwaite

4. The Maglev Train
• Maglev is a short for Magnetic Levitation.
• The Maglev Train is one of the
fastest transport media in the
whole world.
• The maximum speed reached for a
Maglev train has been 581 kmh in
Japan.
• The Maglev Train uses magnets to
reach a really high velocity.
• It doesn’t touch the floor. It levitates
because the magnets.

5. How does it work

6. It works like this

7. MagLev “Guideways” or Tracks
 Track repels magnets on
undercarriage of train, sending the
train forward.
 Train levitates between 1 and 10 cm
above guideway.

8. MagLev vs. Conventional Trains
MagLev Trains Conventional Trains
No Friction = Less Routine Maintenance
Maintenance Needed
No Engine = No fuel Engine requires fossil
required fuels
Speeds in excess of Speeds up to 110 mph
300 mph

9. Advantages of a maglev Train
• The German Transrapid is about 20 times
safer han airplanes
• 250 times safer than conventional railroads
• 700 times safer than automobile travel
• Speeds up to 500 km/h.
• A accident between two maglev trains is nearly
impossible because the linear induction motors
prevent trains running in opposite directions.

10. Limitation’s
• Cost is major issue when considering maglev trains, it
costing approximately $8.5 billions.
• The weight of the electromagnets
• A very strong magnetic field is required to levitate the
heavy trains,and maintaining the field constant requires
a lot of energy which is expensive.

11. The Maglev Train and Society
• The Scientifics want the Maglev train to be
fast and economical.
• They want it to be something that anyone
can use.
• The big problem about this is that the
pieces for the maglev are really expensive
• The procedure to build it up is very
expensive as well

12. The Maglev Train and Environment
 Less energy consumption because no
rail-track friction
 Requires no fossil fuel which can harm
the environment.
 Less noise pollution since the train
never hits the track
 MagLev guideways and trains take up
less space than conventional trains

14. References
 Bonsor, Kevin. “How Maglev Trains Work”. 5 September, 2002.
<http://travel.howstuffworks.com/maglev-train.htm>
 Keating, Oliver. “Maglevs (Magnetically Levitated Trains)”. 16
June, 2000. <http://www.okeating.com/hsr/maglev.htm>
 Disney Online. “California Screamin’”. August, 1999.
<http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/parks/attraction
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 MagLev Systems. “Electromagnetic Systems”. General Atomics
and Affiliated Companies. 2005. <http://www.ga.com/atg/ems.php>.

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