The maglev train provides fast and efficient transportation that could potentially save energy and reduce carbon emission over short distances. The purpose of our project is to determine what the economic and environmental benefits magnetic levitation technology can bring to current transportation methods. Studies on energy efficiency and carbon emissions of common planes were compared to maglev trains. The calculations show that the maglev train used less energy and produce fewer emissions than the commercial plane. Based on these results, the maglev train provides a fast alternative to commercial plane travel, but the high initial cost and lack of route availability would hinder the development of maglev trains.

Creator

• Maciejczyk, Kim
• Liu, Tamie
• Aspinwall, Peter

Contributors

• Savilonis, Brian J.

Subject

• Power the World

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• GPS1300

Year

• 2009

Date created

• 2009-01-01

Resource type

• Poster

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International