Tis still a suitable candidate, but conventional rail is also in need of investment, as are roads.
It has been developed to bridge the speed gap between conventional rail and air travel.
The central web is therefore much shorter than conventional rails.
The station serves high-speed rail, conventional rail, and metro trains.
The central web is much shorter than that found on conventional rails.
The journey time is about 90 minutes compared to 4 hours by conventional rail.
In conventional non high-speed rail, overnight trains are common for this distance.
For the market we are talking about, conventional rail does not.
It has been cited by the government whitepaper (page 10) that the proposed maglev is not good value for money compared with conventional rail.
The vehicle runs on a single conventional rail, so that without the balancing system it would topple over.