Rotem, a member of the Hyundai group, also manufactures magnetic levitation trains.
Aérotrain shares these advantages with the magnetic levitation train and thus may have been a competitor where maglev was used.
Germany has been heavily promoting its high-tech magnetic levitation train, known as the Maglev.
A magnetic levitation train whisks you from the open countryside to Pudong, covering 18 miles in eight minutes.
If the Japanese have a breakthrough in something like magnetic levitation trains, we will be left in the dust.
Germany's new magnetic levitation train in Shanghai can go more than 250 miles an hour.
A magnetic levitation train began operating in 2004, moving passengers between the airport and Longyang Road Metro station.
Mr. Gunn said he did not expect to spend much time on magnetic levitation trains or other radical technologies.
They are conducting studies on alternative fuels, lightweight buses and magnetic levitation trains.
Take a look at a Magnetic levitation trains, it seems to defy gravity because it floats but it still has weight.