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The most important Magplane characteristics which serve this growing market are:
This new transportation network will also connect dispersed suburban clusters with the city center and will provide effective intermodal connections to air, subways, ports and private vehicles. The system will transport a large volume of people and priority freight with reduced trip times that will significantly increase labor productivity and quality of life. The Magplane can link nodes within a 400 km range from the urban center with trip times of about one hour. These
attractive characteristics result from the unique configuration
of magnetic systems used in the Magplane system. The previous art
of magnetic suspension systems, already well developed in Germany
and Japan, has been aimed at a very different and much smaller market,
namely the extension of the high end of intercity
high speed rail. Previous maglev design choices which were optimized
for intercity travel are very different from the Magplane
design choices which are optimized for the expanded new intracity
market.
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The
Magplane concept has been developed in response to the rapidly growing
new market for a transportation system that can effectively link
metropolitan regions together into an interactive urban system.
The
need for this new intracity transportation approach
grows out of the changing nature of work in the information age
and the distribution of employment activities throughout and beyond
the limited confines of the metropolis.