What are some of the benefits of Maglev?

• Maglev can help meet growing travel demand in the Baltimore-Washington corridor as well as along the Eastern Seaboard, reducing the need for additional highways, rail capacity and airport expansion. Maglev is projected to divert about 27,000 vehicles per day from the highway system in 2010, and reduce daily vehicle miles traveled in the corridor in the year 2020 by 500,000 vehicle miles per day.
  
• Maglev does not produce local air quality impacts associated with gasoline engines, diesel locomotives or jet engines.
  
• A high speed Maglev connection could draw the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan regions closer together by reducing travel times between the two cities to less than 20 minutes. This could foster economic growth, particularly in downtown Baltimore.
  
• Maglev could greatly increase the market share for BWI Airport in the Washington region by reducing the travel time from downtown Washington to BWI.
  
• Maglev could generate significant job opportunities in regard to both its construction and operation.
  
• An American Maglev project could foster new research and development into additional transportation and industrial applications of the technology.
  
• If the 40-mile Baltimore-Washington Maglev Demonstration Project is successful, it likely would be extended north to Boston and south to Charlotte, invigorating travel and economy of the Eastern Seaboard and diverting about 20% of air travel to the Maglev mode.