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Unless technology makes some significant advances, steel wheels on steel rails pulled by traction engines is more economical and easier to run lines where you want.
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Can maglev trains be used as freight movers?
Under current technology, no. A maglev train cannot handle the weight of freight that would make it efficient.
What factors determine the cost of monorails or maglev vehicles?
the materials used
What other ways could maglev be used as?
This cannot be answered in the way it was asked. Maglev refers to magnetic levitation trains. This is limited to passenger trains. There are many systems in use on a maglev train system, not simply magnetic levitation - the magnetic levitation is in use in other systems, such as manufacturing, and has even been examined as a part of launching space vehicles, but is not referred to as "maglev".
When were maglev trains first being used?
MagLev trains were first designed by a German man named Hermann Kemper. he was the first man to design and patent a MagLev train. The first MagLev train to be built and used was designed by Thyssen Henschel, another German, in the 1970's. The first passenger-carrying MagLev train was introduced in 1979 at the International Transportation Exposition in Hamburg, Germany. Thus began the MagLev train.
What type of transportation is Maglev used for?
The idea of Maglev is used for large scale transportation of passengers via train. It currently holds the top speed record for railway transport, and they are unaffected by the weather.
What freight class is for used restaurant equipment?
freight class restaurant supplies
What is air freight?
Air freight is the term used for the transport of cargo by air.
What is maglev?
"magnetic" "levitation" A cute way to make trains float - thus reducing rolling friction, but NOT air friction.
How many cars used in Malaysia at 2006?
In 2006, the Department of Statistics, Malaysia put the number of passenger vehicles being driven in Malaysia at 6.5 million. This number is only part of the 15 million vehicles that were on Malaysia's roads at that time. Other types of transportation included the motorcycles, buses, taxis and freight vehicles.
What force is used in Maglev trains?
(Electro) magnetism. magnetic attraction and repulsion.
Where were maglev trains invented?
The Maglev train (also known as the Magnetic Levitation train) was invented in Germany, by a man named Alfred Zehden, in 1902.+++The Linear Motor which is used to propel the levitated trains, was invented in Britain, in the 1960s I think, but sadly not developed here.in japan The technology in use for the Japanese MagLev was invented by two US inventors and was sold to the Japanese when no US investors could be found to proceed with a full-scale maglev in the US. The American prototype maglev train they made was only 3 feet long. A German maglev, using a different technology, was invented and built at about the same time, with the German maglev in use prior to the Japanese maglev.
What is the dimension of a freight train?
It depends on the amount of material that is used to build the freight train
