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This magnetic levitation transportation system is the greatest innovation in track-guided transit since the first railways were built. The Transrapid, a joint project of Siemens, Thyssen Krupp, and Transrapid International, is the first railroad system to travel without wheels. It requires neither gearing nor contact wires. And it moves like lightning - reaching 500 km/h. And it sets standards with convincingly low noise values and low specific energy consumption.
This technology opens up new opportunities to make travel comfortable, economic, and fast. Because the idea behind, or rather under the Transrapid, is as simple as it is ingenious. It uses the principle of the electric motor and applies it without the use of rotating axles and wheels.
The Siemens scope of supply in the Transrapid includes the operations control, communications, and the conductor rail. And that the Transrapid lifts off at all is due to its traction technology and power supply, which was developed by Siemens Transportation Systems Locomotives.
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