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 eightminute 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 energyefficient 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?

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