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 The first magnetically levitated
vehicle (maglev) like the one on the left is going into operation in Shanghai by
the end of this year.
Thema: Shanghai
aus Business Daily Update vom 06.09.2002
Maglev railway guideway completed in Shanghai
All guideway girders were put in place on September 5 for the world's first
commercial maglev railway in Shanghai.
The 30-kilometer line between downtown Shanghai and Pudong International Airport
takes 2,550 guideway girders, each weighing 190 tons and 24 meters long,
according to sources with the Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co Ltd.
It will take only eight minutes to travel between the downtown area to the
airport by the maglev train, which runs at a speed of more than 400 kilometers
per hour. A test operation is scheduled for early next year.
The project, using German technology, will cost nearly 10 billion yuan (US$1.2
billion).
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