Southwest Jiaotong University's Dynamic Simulation Platform for Polymorphic Coupling Rail Transit is officially launched, which upon completion will herald the future of ultra-high-speed rail transit technology.

On the morning of May 20^th, the Dynamic Simulation Platform for Polymorphic Coupling Rail Transit was inaugurated at our University. It is the largest scientific experimental device in the history of SWJTU as well as one of the first batch of projects affiliated to the Comprehensive National Science Center in Sichuan Province. With a total investment of RMB 580 million Yuan, the platform will play a key role in leading the future of ultra-high-speed rail transit technology.

Aiming at exerting international influence, the Comprehensive National Science Center in Sichuan Province focuses on technological innovation and renders substantial support to the Chengdu-Chongqing Double Metropolitan Economic Zone Strategy. The six projects collectively launched under the Center involve several fields including information technology, biomedicine, space astronomy and rail transit. Upon completion of the Dynamic Simulation Platform for Polymorphic Coupling Rail Transit in 2023, an elevated magnetic levitation vacuum tube test line with length of 1500 meters, diameter of 3 meters, minimum pressure of 0.005 standard atmospheric pressure and maximum test speed of 1500 kilometers per hour will stand upright on our campus and cover a total area of 105 mu with its supporting facilities.

This platform, as the most advanced comprehensive research and test platform for ultra-high-speed rail transit, will provide an ultra-high-speed and low-pressure test environment to the researches on common key technologies of vacuum pipeline ultra-high-speed rail transit, high-power rail boosting technology and aircraft dynamic simulation and pneumatic tests.

When introducing the project to Luo Wen, Executive Vice Governor of Sichuan Provincial Government, Party Secretary Wang Shunhong stated that the Platform is of great significance to the development of rail transit technology. The project is designed for the "maglev + tube" transport mode, which will be indispensable for the researches on basic and common key technologies of ultra-high-speed rail transit. Wang also pointed out, “the construction process of major scientific and technological infrastructures is a process of research. We shall constantly find problems, solve them, and remove the obstacles in ‘the last mile’, making our contribution to the application of complete set of engineering technologies and to the development of our country into a strong transportation power.”