Transportation future rail: Maglev, Aerotrain ...

[dedeleco]

We could make automated car trains of small cars on highway very close to each other, which will exist in a few decades, safer, at higher speed.

[Leo Maximus]

the classic tgv was already distributed

The current French TGV is not with distributed engine or we can say that the engine is well distributed but only on the 2 bogies of the 2 drive cars. In total that makes 8 engines for a train: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV

There is only the TGV001 prototype which used the distributed motorization and the turbine, solutions abandoned later: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_001

The future AGV uses the more or less distributed engine, but it is not yet in service (in Italy at the end of 2011): http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotric ... de_vitesse

[Leo Maximus]

51 Wh / km per passenger at 300 km / h with the ICE

81 Wh / km per passenger at 431 km / h with the Transrapid

74 Wh / km per passenger at 500 km / h with the Japanese Maglev (The future "Linear Express")

Could you please recall the unladen, maximum and passenger masses for each of the vehicles in the comparison?

Very variable according to the different versions , there are several ICE, several versions of Transrapid and several version of SCMaglev ... The figures I gave are those of DB and JR.

Otherwise, on: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_vitesse_ferroviaire we have a comparative table of high speed trains. The most powerful is the one that consumes the most, but it is also the one that is the most economical in Wh / km per passenger.

[Leo Maximus]

England at 500 km / h or the English train project at 500 km / h, based on the German Transrapid:

http://www.500kmh.com/ (English)

http://www.500kmh.com/UKU_Factbook2.pdf At the end of the 180-page document there is a comparative study between train and Transrapid.

A "exploded view" of the Japanese Maglev track (at the Japan Railways museum in Japan):



On the left in section, the vertical side of the U-shaped concrete track.

In white, the propulsion windings and in gray, the lift windings, it is aluminum at room temperature.

At the rear, an MLX type train with one of its superconducting bogies.

[Leo Maximus]

Green light today for the リ ニ ア 中央 新 幹線 or linear chuo-shinkansen!

The Tokyo-Nagoya route has been definitively accepted. The connection will be made in 40 minutes at an average speed of 500 km / h. The speed of 500 km / h is reached in less than 40 seconds.

A new type of test train, the L0, will soon carry out tests on the Yamanashi experimental line extended to 43 km.

The old record of 581 km / h should be beaten very much in the coming years.

[Leo Maximus]

Maglev soon in the USA? :

http://www.dailytech.com/Japan+Gives+To ... e33778.htm

[sen-no-sen]

Thanks for the Maximus info!

I want to say "And France in all this"?
Because the TGV is very beautiful but it is an outdated concept ...

[raymon]

Well we had the train in the 70s!

[sen-no-sen]

Well we had the train in the 70s!

Yes, we raised the subject of the Aérotrain further upstream, but since ... more!
It is a shame because France had leadership in this area.

[Leo Maximus]

Well we had the train in the 70s!

Yes, we raised the subject of the Aérotrain further upstream, but since ... more!
It is a shame because France had leadership in this area.

Bah ..., we still sold the TGV in Morocco:

http://www.tgvmaroc.ma/presentation.php