China operates the most extensive high-speed rail network in the world, with more than 24,855 miles of operational lines, ...

BEIJING, 22 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - The world's fastest bullet train, the CR450, has begun a battery of pre-service trials on a high-speed line in China, clocking a single-train speed of 453 ...

Exceeding 400 kilometers per hour means China's high-speed rail technology lacks mature reference as there is no commercial high-speed rail in the world operating at speeds higher than this, said Wang ...

Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains in this interview why high ...

Rep. Seth Moulton’s breezy cheerleading for California’s high-speed rail project in “America Should Travel Fast” (Letters, July 28) offers no persuasive reasons to persist in spending billions of ...

Most Maglevs float, but Japan's EDS trains use rubber wheels at low speeds. Learn how magnetic levitation works and why some systems still need tires.

High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan's bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 ...

The construction of what is intended to be the world’s fastest train, the Chuo Shinkansen Maglev, which is intended to link Tokyo to Nagoya, with a potential future extension to Osaka, is currently ...

In the first week of June, I took a high-speed train between Osaka and Tokyo, Japan’s two largest cities. It was seamless, fast and efficient, and part of the allure of visiting a land where tradition ...