VACUUM TRAIN: FINDING A NICHE IN THE PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION MARKET
[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT The necessity and profitability of creating a transport system with speeds that are multiples of 1000 km / h (up to 6000 km / h) is constantly being discussed by the world scientific community. Today, the only way to increase the speed of rail transport to such values is seen in replacing the wheel-rail system with a magnetic suspension system and replacing the natural environment with an artificially created one, in which the aerodynamic resistance for transport will be small. The article considers the niche of the transport market, which can be occupied by a vacuum train in a competitive struggle with high-speed and air transport. Keywords: vacuum train, comparative analysis, competition, niche search, maglev, air transport, railway transport, high-speed trains.