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🚄 Ready to know more about magnetic levitation in hyperloop? 🚄 Join us for the upcoming Hyperloop Seminar session next 25th Monday, November from 18:00 to 19:00 CET, featuring the talk of an expert on levitation technologies for ultra-high speed vehicles. 🎙️ Speaker 1: Dr.-Ing. Florian Dignath, Senior System Engineer at thyssenkrupp Transrapid. Topic: "Mind the gap - Thoughts on controlling the magnetic levitation" The Transrapid was Germany’s pioneering maglev train, designed for ultra-high-speed travel up to 500 km/h, utilizing electromagnetic suspension for frictionless operation. Developed by ThyssenKrupp and Siemens, the system was a testament to cutting-edge engineering. Dr.-Ing. Florian Dignath played a pivotal role in developing the levitation system. Drawing from his extensive experience, he offers insights into the magnet control system, including the control tasks, design principles, and critical control scenarios essential for the system's operation. Despite decades of development and successful testing at the Emsland facility, plans for domestic routes like Hamburg–Berlin were scrapped due to high costs and limited public support. While the technology found success in Shanghai, the Transrapid remains a symbol of ambitious innovation halted by financial and practical challenges. 🗓️ Mark your calendar and join us for this insightful seminar next Monday 25th of November from 18:00h-19:00h CET. 🔗 Subscribe to our public calendar for all upcoming events: https://lnkd.in/ekcAUrah 🖥️ Here's the Zoom link for the session: https://lnkd.in/gmS7BNAJ Can't wait to see you there! 🚄🚀 EuroTube Swissloop TUM Hyperloop Institute of Hyperloop Technology University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg ETH Zürich Hardt Hyperloop
With the insights that the Freedom of Mobility foundation from the Netherlands has, the Transrapid has also been incorrectly marketed by Thyssen Krupp. Although the Transrapid delivers better performance with much higher average and maximum speeds than any other high-speed train, the Transrapid should not be compared to high-speed trains. The Transrapid is a train in the intercity segment and has a utility task in this. A high-speed train can never fulfill a utility task due to its characteristics. The Zuiderzeelijn project and Rondje Randstad were also inadequate in their basic form. The Transrapid was an additional system while it can replace the IC. The places that the Transrapid would visit are also not IC stations. Eelde airport was also included in the plan. The calculation was made with the wrong numbers. The outcome is therefore not good. Thyssen Krupp must continue to believe in the power of the Transrapid. It has an important value in the Netherlands and Europe. Kevin Coates
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“Transrapid remains a symbol of ambitious innovation halted by financial and practical challenges.” I challenge this statement. Being intimately involved with trying to get Transrapid deployed in the U.S., the primary challenge was political due to the opposition from vested interests fearful of losing their revenue stream. The Colorado DOT study I consulted on clearly showed that Transrapid was the lowest cost option when compared to HSR. The infrastructure represents about 80% of the cost of system deployment, so how would the addition of evacuated tube enclosures reduce that ratio. It’s nonsense. Top speeds are only briefly held during a run due to the need for semi-frequent station stops. Hyperloop lacks a viable business model, based upon my many conversations with maglev and railway engineers.