It traveled two kilometers on the tracks of the Adria-Mestre railway, at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour, without screeching or noise, carrying a one-tonne vehicle and consuming one kilowatt. This is the first prototype in the world of magnetic levitation transport applied to an existing infrastructure, designed by IronLev, a hi-tech company from Treviso.
The presentation took place today as part of LetExpo, the sustainable transport and logistics fair in Verona. Ironlev is a new technology called “passive ferromagnetic levitation”, which produces a field with which the ‘wagon’ – but also other means that must slide such as windows, doors, elevators, metal shelves – is suspended on magnetic skates, and two wheels ” “grip” the profile of the track, so as to avoid slipping or derailments.
A technology that can be mounted on people movers, subways, high-speed trains, up to Hyperloop, above all using existing infrastructures, without the need to build new ones, on which the carriages slide thanks to the passive floating system, not powered by current, with a significant reduction in infrastructure costs.
The railway model tested on the Adria-Mestre – one of the oldest railways in Italy – was assembled in Verona and moves silently back and forth for about ten metres. The next objectives include the development of a further motorized trolley to reach a test of a complete vehicle, with weights that can reach 20 tons and speeds that can reach 200 per hour. The first commercial applications could take place in people-mover transport systems in urban areas
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