The longest, largest, and fastest maglev train in the world, situated at the Yamanashi test track in Japan, has restarted public testing. The test track has recently been extended to 42.8 kilometers ...

“Maglev Trains Could Get U.S. Transit Back on Track” (Commentary, June 27) misses the point entirely about U.S. transportation policy. Kevin C. Coates is correct in his assessment of the possibilities ...

Could the answer to endless hours on BW Parkway, calamitous commutes, and a region’s rage against the trappings of traffic come from a breathless feat of engineering, a bullet train found floating ...

For nearly 30 years, politicians in Southern Nevada and Southern California have promised to deliver high-speed transportation between the two areas, turning the four-hour Las Vegas-Los Angeles trek ...

In Japan, there is a train that doesn’t run on tracks in the traditional way. Instead, it moves through the air using Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) technology. The SCmaglev train exemplifies this ...

Japan is gearing up to redefine rail travel with its ambitious maglev train project, which aims to achieve speeds exceeding 600 kilometers per hour (approximately 373 miles per hour). Initially slated ...

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Chinese scientists set a new world record as a maglev train reached 700 kilometers per hour in just two seconds. The experiment, conducted on December 25, used a 400-meter-long track and a nearly ...

Research at a superconductivity laboratory at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, western China, is gaining momentum for a prototype maglev train that can travel at a whopping 1,000km/h. Lead ...

When you see the Japanese L0 Series maglev train at full speed, it can be hard to spot the potential (extremely costly) failure. Some of that is down to speed. Propelled by superconducting magnets, a ...