Vol. 52 No. 1 (2015)   New Products & Technologies
Technical Papers

High-speed Automated Guideway Transit System

MITSUAKI HOSHI
MASAHISA MASUKAWA
ICHIRO JOREN
SO TAMURA
KEISUKE KIMURA
YUKIHIDE YANOBU

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has developed a high-speed automated guideway transit (AGT) system with a maximum speed of 120 km/h, which is approximately twice as fast as existing AGT systems. The high-speed AGT system, as a result of a newly-developed high-speed bogie, attains not only increased speed, but also further reduction of vibration and noise. Its sophisticated exterior design that gives the impression of speed, coupled with an interior design filled with urban sensibility, heralds the next-generation AGT system. This paper describes vehicles of the high-speed AGT system.