Controlling the velocity of indirect field-oriented control of linear induction motor (LIM) drive is recently receiving significant attention. In this paper, a comparison study in connection to response time and resilience using two different controllers including PID and model predictive control (MPC) is extensively investigated. Two vector control systems for LIM drive are introduced in this study. The first drive mechanism uses a traditional PID controller to control the LIM's velocity. For effective control, whereas, MPC has been adopted to monitor the LIM velocity in the second drive system. Therefore, the performance of these controllers under parameters variation conditions and load disturbance has been compared. MATLAB simulation toolbox has been utilized, in this work, to demonstrate the feasibility of the two suggested schemes. The results showed that MPC based approach is superior to the traditional PID-based drive controller in terms of load disturbances and parameter variations.