Japanese Superconducting Maglev: Present State and Future Perspective

Maglev being developed as a new transportation means running at a speed of 500 km/h has various advantages in safety, mass transportation and less environment pollution as well as highspeed. The development of this system is rapidly advancing into the practical stage, that is, commercial operation of maglev train as a mass transportation system for intercity highspeed service. This paper describes the present state of research and develpment as well as future prosects or maglev.