The JR-MAGLEV, utilizing superconducting magnets, has been under development since 1970 with the manufacturing of a succession of trial vehicles such as the LSM 200, ML 100, ML 500 and MLU 001. In 1979, the ML 500 trial vehicle achieved a world-record speed of 517 km/h. This was followed by the MLU 001, which recorded a speed of 350 km/h as a 3-car formation in 1986 and 400 km/h as a 2-car formation with passengers in 1987. As a result of the satisfactory results obtained by the MLU 001, a prototype vehicle for commercial service, the MLU 002, was manufactured in March 1988 and is now under testing at the Miyazaki test track, with the aim of achieving a target operational speed of 420 km/h.


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    Title :

    Super High-Speed Magnetically Levitated System Approaches Practical Use


    Contributors:
    S. Matsuda (author) / H. Nakao (author) / H. Takemasa (author)

    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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