| With the growing up and promulgation of IT industry, a new transport technology revolution is being brewed. In the past 20 years, the information wave that is marked mainly by computers, internet and communication instrument, have brought sound changes in many areas such as economic, politics and social life style all over the world. Virtual communicating, video conferences, web banks, shopping online and E-commerce have developed vigorously. At the same time, how to meeting the demand for fast and efficient logistics is becoming the chock point which is difficult to be overstepped in the IT times. Although the large-scale construction of highways, railway velocity improving, flights increasing and optimization of logistics mode etc., relaxed the situation about unsmoothed logistics and low distribution efficiency, it is impossible that those improving methods solve the current situation that freight transportation is lagged behind the IT development. The basic prominent distinction is that the velocity of the freight transport doesn't match the velocity of byte in IT industry severely.Luckily, after the train, automobile and airplane, Maglev had been proved to be a feasible and useful technology. Maglev is very suitable for being put into the tube that will be evacuated, namely vacuum tube. Because both mechanical friction and air resistance are eliminated, the vehicle in such kind of evacuated tube could run much faster than airplane. This evacuated tube transportation (ETT) system is fit to not only transporting people, but also transporting goods.
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