Maglev

thumb|L0 Series train on the under-construction [[Chūō Shinkansen, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan]] thumbtime=22|thumb|right|A full trip on the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train thumb|right|Example of low-speed urban maglev system, Linimo Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by electromagnets rather than rolled on wheels, eliminating rolling resistance.

thumb|Transrapid 09 at the Emsland test facility in Germany thumb|Transrapid SMT train in Shanghai thumb|Transrapid SMT train in Shanghai thumb|Transrapid SMT train in Shanghai thumb|Transrapid 05 at ThyssenKrupp thumb|Section II of Transrapid 06 in Deutsches Museum Bonn thumb|Transrapid 06 thumb|Section I of Transrapid 07 on display at Munich Airport

Maglev railway line in Shanghai

300px|thumb|L0 Series maglev train at Yamanashi test track The SCMaglev (superconducting maglev, formerly called the MLU) is a magnetic levitation (maglev) railway system developed by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and the Railway Technical Research Institute.

thumb|350px|Swissmetro Network (proposal from 2005)

Maglev line between airport and south station in Changsha, Hunan province capital, China.

maglev line operated by Beijing Subway

type of linear motor

thumb | 220x124px | right | alt= This is an image that shows StarTram launching a rocket. | StarTram launching a rocket thumb|right|240px|Hypothetical StarTram spaceport. The launch tube stretches into the distance to the east on the right (eventually curving up many kilometers away), next to the power plant which charges the Superconducting magnetic energy storage|SMES. RLVs return to land on the runway.

thumb|300px|right|Artist's rendering of the proposed skyTran design

Inductrack is a passive, fail-safe electrodynamic magnetic levitation system, using only unpowered loops of wire in the track and permanent magnets (arranged into Halbach arrays) on the vehicle to achieve magnetic levitation. The track can be in one of two configurations, a "ladder track" and a "laminated track". The ladder track is made of unpowered Litz wire cables, and the laminated track is made out of stacked copper or aluminium sheets.

First fatal maglev train accident

overview of public transport in Shanghai