Abstract: Under the current economic climate it is expected that any new high-speed rail line in the United States would be constructed as a public/private partnership, requiring substantial private investment, and thus the expectation ...

Abstract: A summary of construction cost and scheduling information is presented for four maglev guideway designs on an example route from Baltimore, MD to Newark, N.J. This work results from the National Maglev Initiative (NMI), a ...

Abstract: Conventional reinforced concrete designs will have to be altered when designing a guideway for a maglev using an electrodynamically suspended (EDS) propulsion system. This type of propulsion system generates large magnetic ...

Abstract: This paper reports results from guideway analyses conducted as part of the National Maglev Initiative (NMI), a government-industry effort from 1989 to 1994, formed to encourage the development of U.S. maglev technology and ...