11 August 2006, a fire broke out on the commercial Shanghai Transrapid shortly after arriving at the Longyang terminal. People were evacuated without incident before the vehicle was moved about 1 kilometre to keep smoke from filling the station. NAMTI officials toured the SMT maintenance facility in November 2010 and learned that the cause of the fire was "thermal runaway" in a battery tray. As a result, SMT secured a new battery vendor, installed new temperature sensors and insulators and redesigned the trays. On 22 September 2006, a Transrapid train collided with a maintenance vehicle on a test/publicity run in Lathen (Lower Saxony / north-western Germany). Twenty-three people were killed and ten were injured; these were the first maglev crash fatalities. The accident was caused by human error. Charges were brought against three Transrapid employees after a year-long investigation. Safety becomes an ever greater concern with high-speed public transport due to the potentially large impact force and number of casualties. In the case of maglev trains and conventional high-speed rails, an incident could result from human error, including loss of power, or factors outside human control, such as ground movement, for example, caused by an earthquake. See also Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit – Transit systems using Linear induction motors Electromagnetic suspension Ground effect train Hyperloop Land speed record for rail vehicles Launch loop would be a maglev system for launching to orbit or escape velocity Mass driver Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line Oleg Tozoni worked on a published non-linearly stabilised maglev design StarTram – a maglev launch system Transfer table Notes References Further reading External links United States Federal Railroad Administration US MagneticGlide The International Maglev Board Maglev professionals' info platform for all maglev transport systems and related technologies. Maglev Net – Maglev News and Information Japanese Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) Magnetic Levitation for Transportation Electrodynamics Emerging technologies Experimental and prototype high-speed trains Magnetic propulsion devices