The Future Of Transportation: MAGLEV | Megastructures | Spark

Speeding at 430 km/h, a futuristic magnetic levitation train makes the 30 km journey from the Pudong International Airport to the Longyang Road Station in Shanghai’s new financial centre into an eight-minute joyride. As the world’s first operating electromagnetic levitation train system, the MAGLEV travels at lightning speed and could change the way we look at train technology forever. As a transportation system, it is fast, safe and energy-efficient but the Shanghai line remains the only magnetic levitation train in commercial operation despite decades of research and countless proposals. What is slowing the MAGLEV down? - Subscribe to Spark for more amazing science, tech & engineering videos: https://goo.gl/LIrlur 🚀 Find us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SparkDocs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spark_channel/ Content licensed from Off The Fence to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com #Documentary #Megastructures #Engineering