The government has unveiled a magnetic levitation train that will operate at Incheon International Airport starting in 2013.

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs performed a test run of the next-generation train at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials in Daejeon on Monday.

In 2006, the nation launched a project to build unmanned magnetic levitation trains that can travel up to 110 kilometers per hour. The government has injected a total of 450 billion won into the project.

By 2013, such next-generation trains will operate on a six-point-one-kilometer railway at Incheon International Airport. The railway will be the second of its kind in the world.

Magnetic levitation trains run on a track using the power of electromagnets instead of steel wheels. Such trains are considered to be more comfortable as they shake less and are less noisy than ordinary trains.