On June 17, 2009, the East Japan Railway Corporation launched a new generation of high-speed trains. The high-speed train will be put into operation in 2011 and will serve Tokyo and Aomori at a high speed of 320 km/h.
Compared with ordinary rail vehicles, high-speed high-end passenger vehicles impose high requirements on the weight, sealing, corrosion resistance, and aesthetics of the vehicle body. Foreign high-speed high-end passenger car bodies generally use stainless steel or aluminum alloy materials, and gradually stop the manufacture of carbon steel vehicles. Taking into account the effective degree of reducing the weight of the car body and ensuring the sealing of the car body, the stainless steel car body is only suitable for the manufacture of urban rail vehicles and intermediate speeds. (160-200km/hr) rail vehicles; aluminum alloy body is much higher than steel structure body because of its lightweight, tightness, corrosion resistance, aesthetics, etc., not only for urban rail vehicles, but also suitable for Produce high-speed high-grade railway vehicles with a speed of 200km/hr or more. From a global perspective, the proportion of aluminum alloy bodies in rail vehicle equipment has gradually increased, and 90% of high-speed rail vehicles and more than 25% of urban rail vehicles use aluminum alloy bodies. All high-speed rail vehicles currently manufactured in Japan have adopted an all-aluminum body structure.
Japan is the first country in the world to build a practical high-speed railway. On October 1, 1964, the Tokaido Shinkansen was officially opened for business. The speed of the high-speed train reached 210 km/h, and the travel time from Tokyo to Osaka decreased from 6 hours and 30 minutes to 3 hours. This electrified, standard-gauge two-lane railway dedicated to passenger transport represents the world’s high-speed rail technology at the time and marks the beginning of the world’s high-speed railway from the experimental stage to the commercial operation stage.
The Tokaido Shinkansen has won support and welcome from the government and the public for its advantages of safety, speed, punctuality, comfort, high transport capacity, light environmental pollution, energy saving and land resources. After the operation of the Tokaido Shinkansen, the passenger market share of high-speed trains has rapidly increased. The average daily passenger transport volume is 360,000 passengers and the annual transport volume reaches 120 million passengers. Thus, in the Tokaido area including Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and other major cities, the situation in which the original passenger transportation was very tense has been alleviated, and the expected economic benefits have been achieved. The railroad, once devalued as a "sunset industry," showed a strong vitality and heralded the advent of the "second era of the railway."
Compared with ordinary rail vehicles, high-speed high-end passenger vehicles impose high requirements on the weight, sealing, corrosion resistance, and aesthetics of the vehicle body. Foreign high-speed high-end passenger car bodies generally use stainless steel or aluminum alloy materials, and gradually stop the manufacture of carbon steel vehicles. Taking into account the effective degree of reducing the weight of the car body and ensuring the sealing of the car body, the stainless steel car body is only suitable for the manufacture of urban rail vehicles and intermediate speeds. (160-200km/hr) rail vehicles; aluminum alloy body is much higher than steel structure body because of its lightweight, tightness, corrosion resistance, aesthetics, etc., not only for urban rail vehicles, but also suitable for Produce high-speed high-grade railway vehicles with a speed of 200km/hr or more. From a global perspective, the proportion of aluminum alloy bodies in rail vehicle equipment has gradually increased, and 90% of high-speed rail vehicles and more than 25% of urban rail vehicles use aluminum alloy bodies. All high-speed rail vehicles currently manufactured in Japan have adopted an all-aluminum body structure.
Japan is the first country in the world to build a practical high-speed railway. On October 1, 1964, the Tokaido Shinkansen was officially opened for business. The speed of the high-speed train reached 210 km/h, and the travel time from Tokyo to Osaka decreased from 6 hours and 30 minutes to 3 hours. This electrified, standard-gauge two-lane railway dedicated to passenger transport represents the world’s high-speed rail technology at the time and marks the beginning of the world’s high-speed railway from the experimental stage to the commercial operation stage.
The Tokaido Shinkansen has won support and welcome from the government and the public for its advantages of safety, speed, punctuality, comfort, high transport capacity, light environmental pollution, energy saving and land resources. After the operation of the Tokaido Shinkansen, the passenger market share of high-speed trains has rapidly increased. The average daily passenger transport volume is 360,000 passengers and the annual transport volume reaches 120 million passengers. Thus, in the Tokaido area including Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and other major cities, the situation in which the original passenger transportation was very tense has been alleviated, and the expected economic benefits have been achieved. The railroad, once devalued as a "sunset industry," showed a strong vitality and heralded the advent of the "second era of the railway."