Proceedings of the KSR Conference (한국철도학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2000.05a
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- Pages.55-62
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- 2000
Status of Korean Maglev Development and Commercial Application Prospects
도시형 자기부상열차 개발 및 실용화 전망
- Kim, In-Kun ;
- Lee, Sang-Rok ;
- Cho, Hung-Je ;
- Yoo, Mun-Hwan ;
- Kim, Bong-Seup ;
- Sung, Ho-Kyung ;
- Lee, Jong-Min
- 김인근 (한국기계연구원) ;
- 이상록 ;
- 조홍제 ;
- 유문환 ;
- 김봉섭 ;
- 성호경 ;
- 이종민
- Published : 2000.05.01
Abstract
The status of the maglev development in Korea is reported along with related commercial application prospects. The 1st test vehicle, Urban Transit Maglev-01, is in the running tests, and is now entered a new phase in which a new vehicle be built within 3 years. Eventhough Korean maglev teams made remarkable progress for 10 years since 1990, major portion of the works to prove safety and reliability remains for the future. Many LRT routes are being planned by the Korean government and UTM will find its commercial application if we can prove many merits of the maglev system plus its reliability. But the commercial application efforts did not produce any outcome at the time because the customer wasn't totally satisfied with the new system and also, they decided it wasn't urgently needed.
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