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Wikipedia: Magletic Levitation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev
Overview of the technologies behind maglev
The Pennsylvania Project - High Speed Maglev
Provides information on the Pennsylvania maglev transportation project
The International Maglev Board
Information on the world's various maglev transportation technologies. Transrapid, linear motor car, linimo, rotem, etc. System deployments, potentials, research efforts, photographs, charts, maps.
Magplane Technology, Inc.
Intracity transportation concept using individual passive vehicles, levitated above a magway trough of semi-circular cross section.
Maglev Monorail
http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/MagMono.html
Promotion of the adaptation of monorail technologies for maglev
Maglev Deployment Program
http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/567
Information about Federal Railroad Administration's program to select maglev line in the United States.
Maglev 2000 Florida
Promotes maglev system for transportation in Florida and provides overview of how this technology works.
Inductrak
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Post.html
Passive maglev technology developed by a Livermore team.
Howstuffworks: How Maglev Train Works
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/maglev-train.htm
Explanation of how maglev train levitates and moves
European Maglev
Nonprofit organization devoted to proposing new European trajectories for Maglev types of transportation.
California Maglev Alliance
Provides information, news and descriptions of maglev in California.
Baltimore-Washington Maglev Project
All about the project including definitions, background, newsletter.
Atlanta Chattanooga Maglev
Group to build a maglev train system between Atlanta, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Includes benefits, technology information, and proposed locations.
Aspects of Maglev
Future perspectives, potentials and limitations of Maglev. Effects on humans (society), environment (cities, infrastructure) and life style. Photos. Developments in Europe (Germany, Eastern Europe, South-east Europe), Asia (Japan, China, India) and North America.
AMLEV
It is a magnetic levitation (maglev) based on permanent magnets and includes a self-stabilizing design based on permanent magnets.