China's Chongqing Invites Brazilian Professor to Help Develop Ultra-High-Speed Hyperloop Train
Tang Shihua
DATE:  Sep 20 2017
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
China's Chongqing Invites Brazilian Professor to Help Develop Ultra-High-Speed Hyperloop Train China's Chongqing Invites Brazilian Professor to Help Develop Ultra-High-Speed Hyperloop Train

(Yicai Global) Sept. 20 -- Prof. Richard M. Stephan from the University of Brazil will come to China's southwestern municipality of Chongqing to help research and develop an ultra-high speed hyperloop train with the Chongqing Academy of Science & Technology, local state-run newspaper Chongqing Daily reported.

The professor will bring his team's research results from the Brazilian MaLlev-Cobra project to the country, the report added.

Chongqing Academy of Science & Technology will transfer the technology to the municipality, laying around 15 kilometers of commercial line to Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport. It will also research and develop a 1,000-kilometers-an-hour magnetically levitated train using the technology then push to create one that goes twice as fast.

"The introduction of the Brazilian team will play a major role in promoting the project," said Dr. Fan Jiangdi, part of the academy's hyperloop train project. The MagLev-Cobra medium- and low-speed trains are already available for urban mass transit systems, he added.

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Keywords:   Hyperloop,Ultra-High-Speed Rail,Chongqing,R&D,Maglev,University of Brazil