Gotta say, the Chinese HSR and maglev designs are a lot more aesthetically pleasing compared to the Japanese designs. I'm not doubting their technological sophistication but it's great to see a 600km/h capable train that doesn't look like a duck bill. CRRC's maglev prototype looks like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie or game.
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Orthan is right about whether this would be a commercial success. That's a whole other problem to the engineering one of achieving the performance.
In any case, this is about a project that is planned. Granted this is well above just ppt or model level, there is a lot of work left to make this, mass transport possible and commercially viable.
In any case, this is about a project that is planned. Granted this is well above just ppt or model level, there is a lot of work left to make this, mass transport possible and commercially viable.
Didn't someone say this project is aiming to deliver service in 5 to 10 years?
Honestly what is the deal with this train? Have they tested this vehicle or is it just a mockup? What is the development timeline?
If service is to be achieved in 5 to 10 years time, they would only have barely started on everything apart from the core tech which would still be lab levels of reliability and cost.
If everything is almost completed and it's really just waiting for track construction, it should only take a few months to construct a long enough track for service and maybe a few years for providing actual commercial service between two major cities. 5 to 10 years before commercial service indicate many pieces of tech involved have not yet matured enough for commercial service.
I think the 5-10 years means getting the government to build an actual commercial line, not 5-10 years for it to be ready
Sections of the Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Guangzhou lines are already at full capacity.
So if you're going to build yet another new line, it might as well be a faster one if the economics can work out.
Distance wise, Beijing-Shanghai is 1300km which means a Maglev would should take less than 2h20min.
That is short enough for premium ticket charge for travellers on day-trips for leisure or for business.
Currently there are 210 million passengers per year on the Beijing-Shanghai line.
And if I look 10 years ahead, there's probably enough demand on this route for another 200 million passengers per year.
There are major traffic nodes at either end of the line: Beijing-Tianjin and also Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou
A similar calculation applies to the Beijing-Guangzhou/Shenzhen route which is much longer at 2200km.
That also means there are more city-pairs which have viable journey times of 1h30min - 5 hours
5-10 years to build a train line? taking into account how fast chinese companies work, and the fact that only now the train was unveiled, i doubt that. I think that the train/track are still in development phase.
The train is 600 km/h. Calling it "first 600kmh train" could have been a public statement lapse/mistake.