NAKATSUGAWA, Gifu Prefecture--A tunnel collapse here Oct. 27 killed a 44-year-old construction worker and seriously injured another man in the first fatal accident connected to the enormous magnetic ...

Obayashi Corp.'s head office, the second from left in the foreground, is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Dec. 9, 2017, in Tokyo's Minato Ward. (Mainichi) Japan's general contractors were ...

China is racing to build a new kind of train that does not just rival jetliners, it threatens to redefine what “high speed” ...

Federal officials cancelled $26 million in grants that would have funded a proposed high-speed train project between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. According to U.S. Department of Transportation ...

The movement of people and goods is accelerating due to the development of the Internet and aircraft, and this will not stop in the future. No matter what kind of society we become, people will ...

China Maglev Train: Chinese scientists working on the country’s futuristic high-speed maglev train project have claimed to have solve a “critical flaw”, in the Hyperloop concept proposed in a 2013 ...

Central Japan Railway Co.’s ongoing project to build a maglev train system linking Tokyo and Osaka is finally in full swing. Early this month, JR Tokai released a list of probable locations for ...

A Japan-led maglev train project on the U.S. east coast has yet to make progress even 10 years after the countries' leaders discussed the topic, amid mounting challenges such as construction costs and ...

In this Nov. 25, 2017 file photo, construction work for the maglev train line is seen at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo. (Mainichi) Shimizu Corp. has admitted to fixing bids for contracts on work to ...

Could a train possibly keep up with a Boeing 737? China now holds the key to this problem with its T-Flight project. The idea ...

Germany’s federal railway authority has issued the European country’s first license for public magnetic levitation (maglev) train operation, in a major milestone for the nascent technology’s use.