The ability of M-2000 vehicles to switch at high speeds allows them to maintain high average speed, while having many stations connected to the maglev system, because they do not have to slow down on the main guideway if they are going to switch off.

Accordingly, the M-2000 vehicles can operate in a "skip-stop" fashion, bypassing off-line stations at high speed that they are not scheduled to stop at. For these stations when the vehicle is scheduled to stop, it would switch off the main guideway at high speed onto a secondary guideway, on which it would decelerate to stop at an off-line station. After unloading and loading, the vehicle would leave the station, accelerating up to cruise speed, and be switched back onto the main guideway.

M-2000's high speed switching capability enables its maglev vehicles to efficiently serve the highly dispersed US population with many maglev stations, rather than having only a few stations located in large urban centers. The majority of the US population would live within a few miles of a maglev station, is which they would have ready access. Once at the station they would be able to travel to virtually any metropolitan region in the US, to reach the station within a few miles of their destination (Intercity Passengers).