N. CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECT
High-speed wheel-rail train and high-speed maglev wain
are two most important achievements of railway traffic in the
20* century. Combined with their technology characters,
their safety systems are analyzed in this paper. We can see
that, in order to ensure safety, these two systems take series
of safety methods. Practical operation experience of the
high-speed railway technology has lasted for decades, but at
prksent, only the maglev line in Shanghai is a pure
commercial line all over the world. Most of the others are
experiment lines, and their safety needs to be demonstrated
by time and practice.
The complete application of new technology is a long
course, and the high speed carried by the maglev technology
is what we need. These two high-speed technologies have
different characteristics and fields of application, and they
cannot replace each other completely. So they will exist in
the world for several future years