MAGLEV TRANSPORT

With the building of the first Corridor in 2021 (Tokyo-Osaka) came the first widespread use of magnetic levitation transport. Powered by regional tokamak fusion power, the maglev transports used a single titanium-alloy rail with organic-molecular superconducting magnets. They were reasonably efficient and pollution-free, but relatively slow through the Corridors.

With the development of liquid nitrogen propulsion, maglev fell into increasing disuse as passenger transport, though it was still used for freight until the Corridors themselves were largely abandoned by the late 40s. Although still used (late 2080s) in some remote regions (parts of the old Nairobi-Kinshasa Corridor, for example), maglev is nearly forgotten now as a propulsion system.

Keywords: used, maglev, corridor, propulsion, transport, corridors, late

All text © 1986 Rob Swigart. "Portal : A Dataspace Retrieval" is available courtesy of the Author's Guild Backprint Programme. ISBN: 0595197841

Updated: Tue Dec 4 2001