maglev‘2006, dresden, september 13-15 why maglev? dr. rer. pol michael raschbichler transrapid in...

Maglev‘2006, Dresden, September 13-15 Why Maglev?

Dr. rer. polMichael Raschbichler

Transrapid in the context of urban and regional transport planning

• Long-Wave-Theories and Infrastructures

• Actual Developments on globalized markets

• Settlement Structures in Europe

• Vision of a maglev network for Germany

• Why maglev?



Long-Wave-Theories and Infrastructures

1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050

Growth

Wave I1805

Steam/MechanicsTrade

Wave II1865

Coal/StealTraffic

Wave III1920

Electricity/ChemistryEnergy

Wave IV1970

Oil/ElectronicsCommunication

Wave V2020

Nuclear Power/ITKnowledge

Canals1836

Rails1891

Roads1946

Air2002

Maglev?2060

10-15years

10-15years

10-15years

10-15years

Linking specific cities

Linking regions(national)

Covering Areas(decentralization)

Linking Metropoles (international)



Long-Wave-Theories and InfrastructuresConclusion

• There are regular cycles of economic growth.

• There are regular cycles in the development of infrastructures.

• There is a correlation between infrastructure and economic development.

• Each transportation system answers a specific economic requirement and itself has an impact on economic development and settlement structure.



Actual Developments on globalized markets

• Increasing spezialisation and complexity of organisation in networks or project companies.

• Shift from mass production (Fordistic) to flexible, individualized production (Post-Fordistic).

• Demographic changes and increasing importance of innovative clusters and regions.

• Spatial and interactional expansion of economic areas and concentration on metropolitan areas due to Globalization.

• Temporal distance, not spatial, is the determining factor.



Settlement Structures in Europe

England GermanyFrance



Vision of a maglev networkfor Germany

• 4.255 km (2,644 miles)

• 50 DB stations

• 10 P&R stations

• 14 airport stations

• av. 34% time saving to actual systems (~ 1h)

• connects smaller regions to metropolitan areas

Hamburg

Berlin

Dresden

Leipzig

Magdeburg

Hannover

Bremen

DortmundKassel

Cologne

Francfort

Nuremberg

Munich

Stuttgart• support of decentralized

concentration



Why maglev?

• 70th: new systems needed to reach HighSpeed

• 90th: railways with 300 – 350 km/h (180 – 215 mph)

• Airtravel is adequate system to link metropolitan regions in globalized markets.

• Maglev is to bring short international trip times by airtravel into the regions.

• Maglev strengthens smaller regions and links them to international markets.



Maglev is the future of modern high-speed transportation.

• Which region will give the major impulse for the implementation of this innovative transportation system?

• Europe? Asia? America?



Requirements for future transportation infrastructures

• Available and flexible

• Short trip times despite intermediate stops

• Safe and reliable

• Low costs

• Ecologically consistent

• Fit to regional settlement structure.

Interconnect flexible and innovative clusters and regions in a network.

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