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

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  • Technology
  • Objectives
  • History
  • Swissmetro-NG
  • See also
  • References
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thumb|350px|Swissmetro Network (proposal from 2005)

Swissmetro is a proposed Swiss transportation system based on vacuum-train (also known as vactrain) technology. It was invented by Swiss engineer Rodolphe Nieth in 1974 and it is presently being promoted and developed as SwissMetro-NG ("NG" for New Generation).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swissmetro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.