Highlights: The Shanghai Maglev Train is a magnetic levitation train operating between Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport and Longyang Road metro station. It travels the 30.5 km distance at speeds as high as 431 km/h. Initially built to demonstrate the viability of such systems, it remains only the third commercially operated maglev system in history. Due to this uniqueness, the Shanghai Maglev Train is something of a tourist attraction with riders sometimes opting to make a roundtrip simply for the enjoyment. Traveling to and from Pudong International Airport, the maglev is an attractive alternative to the subway and certainly an impressive feat of transportation engineering.