Japan began testing Maglev Train Bashny.Net

Management Central Japan Railway (Central Japan Railway, JR Tokai) launched the test phase of the Maglev Train, the development of which took about six years.
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The data rate of trains on routes Tokyo - Nagoya and Tokyo - Osaka, to be built in the near term, will be 500 km / h, which confirms the video below. Tests of the Japanese maglev JR Tokai L0 held in a special tunnel length 42, 8 km in Yamanashi. It is worth noting that not so long ago, the length of the tunnel was 18, 4 km, but it was not enough to make interconnected five cars accelerate to 500 km / h.





"Our task is to spread the technology from Japan to the United States, and after that the Maglev will be the international standard" - said the chairman of Central Japan Railway Yoshiyuki Kasai (Yoshiyuki Kasai).

Before introducing maglev in operation, JR Tokai has yet to evaluate their impact on the environment and look for ways to reduce the cost of servicing trains. By the beginning of the financial year 2015 promises to build JR Tokai maglev 9 cars. Resource The Asahi Shimbun also reported that management plans maglev test cars with a total length of 12 299 m.

It should be noted that research in the field of maglev trains, started in Japan in the 1970s.
Preliminary report on the environmental impact of JR Tokai will provide 2014 financial year. Around the same period, construction will begin on the first line magnitnolevitatsionnoy railway that will connect Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. It is noted that the route Tokyo - Nagoya will be ready by 2027, and the line Tokyo - Osaka will come into operation no earlier than 2045. Travel time from Tokyo to Nagoya is 40 minutes, and from Tokyo to Osaka - 67 minutes.
It should once again be noted that in contrast to the hypothetical passenger transport systems and Hyperloop SkyTran, Japanese maglev can see and touch today.

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