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expenditures in
urban areas.
Interest in
hovertrains waned, and
major development had
ended by the mid-1970s.
Hovertrains were also
developed for
smaller systems...
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suspension systems were
considered too complex. This led to a
variety of "
hovertrain"
proposals during the 1960s,
including England's
Tracked Hovercraft and...
- that
serves the
Getty Center in Los Angeles. It runs two cable-driven
hovertrains each
consisting of
three Otis
Hovair vehicles. The tram line, already...
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train uses an air cushion;
either in the
manner of a
hovercraft (as in
hovertrains) or
using the wing–in–ground-effect design. The
advantages of a ground-effect...
-
simpler than the
surface needed to
support the same
vehicle on wheels;
hovertrains could be
supported on
surfaces similar to
existing light-duty roadways...
- Otis
Hovair Transit Systems is a type of
hovertrain used in low-speed
people mover applications.
Traditional people mover systems used
wheeled vehicles...
-
parking garage at the
bottom of the hill by a three-car, cable-pulled
hovertrain people mover.
Located in the
Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the...
- t e High-speed rail Part of rail
transport Technologies Conventional Hovertrain Maglev High-speed
trains by
service speed or
planned service speed High-speed...
- prototypes,
early commercialization Package delivery,
search and
rescue Hovertrain,
Ground effect train,
Ground effect vehicle Research,
development Faster...
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surface using a
cushion of air
retained by a
flexible skirt, and the
hovertrain,
which is a type of high-speed
train that
replaces conventional steel...
