ALTHOUGH many researches have been conducted on linear induction motors (LIMs), the dynamic characteris-tics required for anticipating its operating characteristics have not been sufficiently derived. It is important to obtain good predictions of operating characteristics because when LIMs are applied to transportation systems, they become critical to guarantee passengers’ safety and riding quality. In this paper, we investigate the dynamic characteristics of LIMs applied to magnetic levitation vehicles using the procedure shown in Fig. 1. We first perform electromagnetic field analysis [1] inorder to obtain the inductance included in the equivalent circuit parameters. The inductance can be obtained by integrating the flux density, and hence, the flux density is derived using a simplified analysis model. Moreover, since equivalent pa- rameters are essential for the dynamic modeling of LIMs, the procedure to obtain the parameters is extremely significant. Further, its validation can be performed by employing various methods; in this study, we employ two methods that have high reliability and are widely used in the characteristic analysis of electrical machines—Maxwell stress tensor technique and the finite element method (FEM) [2], [3]. Based on the validated analytical procedure, we perform dynamic modeling of a LIM as well as simulations using Matlab Simulink and compare the results with the experimental result [4]–[7]. The analysis model is presented in Fig. 2, and the design specifications are given in Table I.