In Giappone un treno a levitazione magnetica nel 2025

Entrerà in servizio un treno al levitazione magnetica (Maglev) nella tratta tra Tokyo e Nagoya che raggiungerà la ragguardevole velocità di 500 km/h.

Japan plans to launch Maglev rail service in 2025
Japan said Thursday it would aim to launch its first magnetic levitation (Maglev) rail service in 2025 as it starts to phase out the famed Shinkansen "bullet" trains. The commercial service, which can hit top speeds of more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) per hour, will be run by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) between Tokyo and the central city of Nagoya. "We will take the initiative ourselves in putting into reality a means of transport replacing the Shinkansen," JR Tokai president Masayuki Matsumoto told a news conference. In an annual earnings report, the company said the Tokyo-Nagoya Maglev service would be the "first phase" of its grand project to build a new super-fast trunk line stretching to Japan's second city of Osaka via Nagoya. It added that the existing bullet train system has reached its limits in terms of technology and transportation capacity.JR Tokai has been testing Maglev cars since 1996 on a trial track in Yamanashi, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Tokyo. In December 2003, a Maglev test car there achieved a world record of 581 kilometres (361 miles) per hour for a train. It compared with the world record of 574.8 kilometers (357.2 miles) per hour for a train on traditional rails achieved last April by a specially built French TGV train on the Paris-Strasbourg line. JR Tokai said the 18-kilometre (11-mile) trial track would be expanded to 43 kilometres (27 miles) for further tests on its Maglev cars. China currently operates the world's only commercial application of the Maglev, a line running 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Shanghai's airport to the financial centre in Pudong district. Last September, a test Maglev train in Germany crashed into a maintenance vehicle, killing 23 people, while travelling at about 170 kilometres (106 miles) per hour on a trial track.
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