Abstract
Since the late 1970s, railways have made a comeback with the introduction of high-speed trains. Until then, railways had the image of being inefficient and trains had a speed of only 100-130 km/h. Nowadays trains can regularly achieve three times those speeds and national railway organisations feel the pressure for reorganisation to improve the quality of services and to operate on a more profitable basis.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1999 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Geerlings, H. (1999). The Maglev-technology. In: Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60089-0_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60089-0_7
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-64251-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-60089-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive