I live in Munich and I'm sooo looking forward for the Transrapid. It's gonna be the coolest traain ever. As far as I know it will be a more advanced version to the Transrapid in Shanghai.

This is the breakthrough: Maglev is no more a curiosity or tourist gimmick, limited to short hauls to & from downtown to airport, but is now the nominal, high-speed, intercity, long-distance ground transport system which will be increasingly adopted around the world. All it needed was for two cities & their provincial & national government to be the first to step up to the plate; it's the challenge that no self-respecting nation can henceforth ever ignore. As intended: the wave of the future.

1971 - West Germany - Prinzipfahrzeug - 90 km/h 1971 - West Germany -TR-02(TSST)- 164 km/h 1972 - Japan - ML100 - 60 km/h - (manned) 1973 - West Germany - TR04 - 250 km/h (manned) 1974 - West Germany - EET-01 - 230 km/h (unmanned) 1975 - West Germany - Komet - 401.3 km/h (by steam rocket propulsion, unmanned) 1978 - Japan - HSST-01 - 307.8 km/h (by supporting rockets propulsion, made in Nissan, unmanned)

Schade dass es den nicht gibt.

I'VE DECIDED TO CHANGE MY VOCATION IN LIFE. I'M GOING TO BE A MAGLEV ENGINEER/ PILOT, OR AT LEAST I COULD ASPIRE TO BE A MAGLEV CONDUCTOR. I WISH.

Nice technology. Works wonders in heavy short-medium distance traffic situations. Still too costly for anything less than 80% ridership over the day. Awesome way to welcome people from Airport.

In Berlin könnte man mit sowas die Fahrt auf der Ringbahn drastisch verkürzen. Ich bin für diese Technik.

i guess everyone would agree on a fast, economic, enviro-friendly, and comfortable public transport..

It's not a shitty project. Just expensive as hell.

I agree with that. But as far as I know they are planning to extend the metro to the airport, not the maglev. And the HUGH deficit is not related to the lack of passengers, is related to the high cost of the track construction. The Chinese Transrapid and the German one are POLITICAL projects to be "modern" despite other available and cheaper transport systems to go to airports.

Imagine a hyper-high-speed mail and parcel service... Order something from America, get it delivered to your door in northern europe in a few hours

cause its easier and don't forget that america is known for making things easy and comfortable, they even changed their own language to speak and write less for the same information, let alone building complicated structures such as maglev

1993 - Germany - TR-07 - 450 km/h (manned) 1994 - Japan - MLU002N - 431 km/h (unmanned) 1997 - Japan - MLX01 - 531 km/h (manned) 1997 - Japan - MLX01 - 550 km/h (unmanned) 1999 - Japan - MLX01 - 548 km/h (unmanned) 1999 - Japan - MLX01 - 552 km/h (manned/five formation). Guinness authorization. 2003 - Germany - TR-08 - 501 km/h (manned) 2003 - Japan - MLX01 - 581 km/h (manned/three formation).

1978 - Japan - HSST-02 - 110 km/h (manned) 1979-12-12 - Japan-ML-500R - 504 km/h (unmanned) It succeeds in operation over 500 km/h for the first time in the world. 1979-12-21 - Japan -ML-500R- 517 km/h (unmanned) 1987 - West Germany - TR06 - 406 km/h (manned) 1987 - Japan - MLU001 - 400.8 km/h (manned) 1988 - West Germany - TR-06 - 412.6 km/h (manned) 1989 - West Germany - TR-07 - 436 km/h (manned)　

If this is the case then i would say Australia is about 190 years behind Germany in technology..

When was it open to the public? I was in Munich in oct 2006 and certainly there were works around...

The Japan Maglev have wheels and The GERMAN Maglev is a very Hightech Systhem without any problems and he run in Shanghai and bring many people from A to B each day.

Es ist einfach nur traurig. besonders die Kostensteigerung lag nicht beim Transrapid selbst sondern bei den "Bauwerken". Es hat nach dem bau des Transrapids in Shana keinen Ansporn mehr gegeben.

and do not forget who allows them to do so ... good old times of protecting home production with import taxes.

I saw the Transrapid last week in Munich, exhibited on a platform next to the airport, but later it was gone. They sold it for one Euro, and I think it will be exhibited in some factory. I like the video, though I am not sure if these Lufthansa self checkin machines are any good - There was no combination of 3 seats available when I used the machine.

Transrapid - German Highspeed Legend.

Anyone noticew the subliminal advert for Fritz Stoiber Productions at 0:29 ?

@train52000 and every house would have maglev station right? Maglev's will probably be for Intercity travel as someone metioned (London-Paris-Cologne-Berlin... and stuff) If they'd make them awesomelly accelerating, but slow (let's say only 160km/h or something), but comfortable enough so you wouldn't leave your head back at the station when it starts, then it would be awesome for the overground or underground.

That is not true. The maglev won´t be replacing anything. It will COMPLEMENT (if ever built) Shinkansen services between Tokyo and Nagoya. But the cost is VERY HIGH and the actions of JR West dropped after they announced that they will construct the maglev...

Strange that people can be so nasty in their comments! I don't suppose they'd act in the same way to a person face to face. This was a great video. Maglev (wheels and all!) is the way ahead! Sadly, we can only dream of such things here in Scotland. :(

Germany doesn't even have them. They had a test site to develop the technoglogy and they actually crashed one. they never built the one in Munich due to high cost...

@thebiglou13 ja das weiß ich... ich meinte ob das in München gebaut wird. Aber wenn Sie sagen das es eingestellt wurde dann hat sich meine frage erledigt

To SwedishPrincess66 Sorry,I cannot express my mind correctly in English. Because,It's still short time from that I have started to learn English. But it's sure that I and almost Japanese respect German and Cermany, because Cermany is very famous of its Excellence in Japan. So, Please don't get wrong. Danke! P.S. absolumba must be Korean. don't care

It's better to import the technology from Japan than to research and develop in Germany. The technology of Linear Motor Cars has been already founded in the late 1980s in Japan. As it doesn't show big advantage against Shinkansen in a small island like Japan, the money-eating LM doesn't get investment. But in European Continents, LM may have the big possibility.

Not to mention they are less require to maintenance than High-speed rail and more weather tolerance than airplane.

I'd still keep my car, but I'd use this a lot more often, and maybe only use the car to go in rural areas where the train doesn't go :D

You should know that the shinkansen has a very different way to work.. as the TGV... the TGV isnt made to drive about tracks with lots of hills... also the TGV track dont has many curves.. if u can run a TGV @ a shinkansen track @ 574,8KM/h than u are good... shinkansen and his track is an AWESOME piece of techninology... it was build years before the first TGV has been builded... (TGV 1981 - shikansen 1964!!!)

Schade, dass das nichts geworden ist. Aber wenn man es sich mal überlegt, ist der Transrapid nicht als Flughafen S Bahn gedacht. Dieses Projekt war eigentlich von vornherein zum Scheitern verurteilt

@adawilkes1 Amtrak has about 21,000 miles of track. A study by the United States Federal Railroad Administration put the price per mile for an American Maglev system at 111.5 million. So that's 2.31 trillion dollars to convert Amtrak to Maglev. Good luck getting that funding, even for maybe replacing just Acela (which would be 50.8 billion dollars).

Germany does not uses it's potential to be more innovative. China takes this train, and makes it happened. Germany could be on top in technology, but I guess bureaucracy slows the process down.

So easy to know.. magnetic trains are not in the position to earn even more money to those in power. That`s why they don`t spend money on it..

@Yuukisakamoto MAGLEV TECH CAME FROM JAPAN.......

Check out Skytran. It's a PRT collaboration between NASA & Unimodal Systems. I believe this one would work. Non-stop, 150 MPH top speed, MAG-lev technology, and 200 MPG equivalent, even at 100 MPH!

Satz mit X, das war wohl nix. Schade eigentlich, da gab es noch deutsche Ingenieurskunst

Best implemented on shot haul trips only Airports Express commutes Vacation spots Not viable over 1000 miles

WE NEED THE TRAIN IN MUNICH!!!!!!!!!

wow!!!

Never in a million years would i give up owning a car its way more easy and convienent to use ...unless you talk about traffic in busy cities but then again why would you want to live in a huge rat trap like new york or london or any other big city lol and besides with the technology we have at our finger tips RIGHT NOW! we could all be driving electric cars that are powered by the sun or geothermal or tidal power stations but WE CHOOSE NOT TO!

@golubinci oh really. haha. No, I'm afraid you are entirely wrong. They are the cab drivers and contsruction workers. They are like mexicans in the usa.

nice to know, its settled then.

@venturafor2012 Amtrak has about 21,000 miles of track. A study by the United States Federal Railroad Administration put the price per mile for an American Maglev system at 111.5 million. So that's 2.31 trillion dollars to convert Amtrak to Maglev. Good luck getting that funding, even for maybe replacing just Acela (which would be 50.8 billion dollars).

That is not true, the maglev vehicles cannot move heavy freight because the ammount of energy used and the high weight of the vehicles made unprofitable that development. Well, the maglev passenger service is also HIGHLY unprofitable, the Shanghai one is loosing a lot of money.

does anyone know where to get the sound effect from 0:03 - 0:06? Thanks

It's absolutely time to do something different. Let me ask anyone looking. If you could get on a system that could take you from close to your home to close to your final destination, short and long haul, in a safe,cost effective manner, would you be willing to give owning a car?

@number1Schumacherfan Nicht wirklich. In deutschland gabs schon mehrere Crash's bei hochgeschwindigkeitszügen..

As far as I know, the japan maglev could have been built already. So y not? Because Japan hasn't got the money to pay the construction, not even of the TRACK itself. But have a nice day in the nice Japan. =)

are you serious? You HONESTLY think they were trying to pass this off as video footage? It's a simulation.

@ACfireandiceDC America has the Inductrack. It's much better than the Transrapid or the japanese systems.

@number1Schumacherfan I DOUBT ABOUT IT......

Hi kwesigreat: The reason Munich doesn't run it as a show piece of German technology even (as you say) if it is a monetary drain for municipal administration, is because of ideological sophistry. If you study the history of the 3-thousand-year+ war between the anti-science, anti-development empiricists and the classical humanist golden thread of progress of civilization, you will soon apprehend why the construction of a Pan-European/Eurasian Maglev Land-Bridge has been systematically sabotaged.

Transrapid still active company in Germany?? I'm trying to contact with them but no success.

Schade! schade! schade! das waere ja grossartig wenn der MAGLEV geben wurde. Dann waere ich naemlich schnell am Muenchener HBF wenn ich Freunde in MUC besuchen wurde. Da braucht mann nicht mehr dieser ewige fahrt vom Flughafen bist zum banhhof mit dem S-bahn zu machen.

This is Germany technology :]

SPIEGEL ONLINE 03/27/2008 [2008/03/27] TRANSRAPID PROJECT DITCHED Maglev Train Too Expensive, Munich Decides First it was too pricey. Then funding was found. Now, with the price tag suddenly almost doubling, plans to build a high-speed magnetic levitation rail link from the Munich airport to the city center have been shelved.

That is not exactly true, the japanese maglev will be PRIVATELY constructed by JR West. And notice that it won´t be profitable and perhaps it ended not built. Tokyo-Nagoya can be opened on 2025 with luck.

I think this comment do not take into consideration the whole cost, train plus track. I guess that if you put together all the costs it becomes pretty high, which is the very reason why MAGLEV technology is not winning over the other forms of transportation, like normal wheel trains, cars and planes. It stays in some place between all of them and is not really outstanding. For example, they propose to transport also containers with it. But who needs transport containers at 600 km per hour? Only if they contain something extremly valuable. Normal containers can follow at a low pace, because they don't have to arrive like a lightening in the sky.

@hacherul lol, si eu ma bucuram deunazi c-au bagat prize de reincarcat mobilu in noile vagoane de rapid.

Das wäre mal was! Aber wie immer, Deutschland entwickelt und andere Länder packen es an.

this is just SIMULATION this train is real buth this shows only simulation its working on HIGH ENERGY POWERED MAGNETS if ELECTRIC IS DOWN TRAIN CRASH on RAILS WHIT HIS Body sry for caps loc

leider ist es nichts daraus geworden :(

This will happen anyway if we run out of oil=)

ok, and what about the train in china? itßs very successfull!

THESE TRAINS DONT Pollute they have no engine and no wheels and no driver they run off of magnets

Wie sieht es aus wollen die das wirklich bauen ?

@jeffdarga100 itl never be build :( we in germany are not able to develop things completely, we talk everything to grave :(

So eine kurze Strecke ist unrentabel. Was bringt das, wenn man statt in 30 Minuten in 10 Minuten am Flughafen ist ? Da muss eine Fernstrecke daher ! Hamburg - München oder Berlin - Köln z.B

we need roads in Romania!

The Japanese maglev is A TEST LINE, no commercial operation... please if you have no idea of what are you writing, DONT WRITE.

This is a nonsense. There is an efficient railway to the Munich airport, only will be a duplication, that will use more energy, take more land only to arrive more faster to take... a POLLUTER PLANE?

@adawilkes1 I am a liberal, and I think that's a great idea.

Germany never use magnetic train because of so very expensive Germany use rails only.

sry for spam.. but this comment was an answer for another comment.. but i dont know why it has been postet as a new comment... sry

jus watched a modern marvels show that said america is ursuing four projects they are awaiting approval and fundin from the gOV'T

@hacherul What for ?

Zoltan Bebto aus Ungarn.

Transrapid still owns the rights for the Maglev or is now in China's hands?

maybe because america already has electric trains which dont need oil or create pollution

@dunnobutwayne nuclear electric power i guess, or something biologic

WHERE??????? They are building CONVENTIONAL high speed trains!!!! And the maglev IS UNPROFITABLE,

ICE IS BETTER THAN SHINKANSEN?

Germans invented it JAPASS

@vilou12 Kein Geld ist dafür da.Ist zu teuer.

tgva325: You have no idea of the opposition to Maglev by great and stupid ignoramuses in all the bureaucracies, and among the general public, let alone the sluggish and constipated attitude of said agencies. The Transrapid promos have never stated that Maglev exists in the countries you mention in your comments, and for your information, I AM real, and have no need of being told to be so!

Ok, if I believe the LIES of the transrapid promos, the maglevs must be running now in Arabia, Switzerland, Iran, etc, etc... GET REAL!

And your point is? Btw: It is Transrapid not Maglev. ;)

@number1Schumacherfan True, but Japan is better at innovation. :D

MADE IN GERMANY

Only 2 nations invented Full-fledged　Maglev train by different way ,different system. ① ★JR-Maglev★ Japan 　　Maximam speed 581 km/h　It's Guinnes record currently the fastest train in the world very safe system ② ★Transrapid★ Germany Maximam speed 501 km/h very dangerous system Shanghai Maglev introduced this one ③ ★Linimo★ Japan 　　Maximam speed 100 km/h very safe system but slow

world war without oil?? lol with what fuel?

@xesionprince hahaha not its and german invention so sry for you first inform before flame such dump things ...

Still no arguments, only "propagand". maglev is EXPENSIVE, and the faster the "train" run, more energy it uses because of air resistance...

HAHA, exellent comment, +5^^

I don't want to disappoint you guys, but levitation trains have no future. Impressive technology, but a complete nonsense. Bullets rains can reach any city using regular lines whereas maglev trains are incompatible with traditionnal railways and cost 3 times more. On much longer distances, plane will be prefered to maglev. Believe me, new maglev lines will never be built.

if you against this then your against progress. don't be a hypocrit throw your computer, cell phone, tv and any technology in the bin now.

khmm.. and you would be who?? a physicist? They ARE more energy efficient.. and of course much much faster!