Futuristic rail seeks China market

Jerry Sanders, chairman and CEO of skyTran Inc, based in Mountain View, California, was in Beijing recently looking for potential partners to bring the company's magnetic levitation track system for personal transportation to China.

The company is headquartered at the NASA Ames Research Center and is a NASA Space Act company, meaning that it has a cooperative technology development agreement with the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency.

On its website, skyTran describes its product as a "patented, high-speed, low-cost, elevated personal rapid transportation system".