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All Aboard: China's Next Export Is A Trans-Asian High-Speed Railway

China has a grand plan to extend its high-speed rail infrastructure to its neighbors. First stop: Laos.READ MORE

A Train That's Part Plane, Flying Inches From The Ground

Instead of finding ways for our track-tethered trains to go faster, we could just eliminate the track altogether.READ MORE

The Beijing-Shanghai Railroad Begins Service Today

China's trains--already faster than any in the U.S.--will soon connect distant economic centers in just a few hours.READ MORE

Amtrak's Incredible Shrinking Service

These historical maps of Amtrak service show the slow death of America's passenger trains. The only cure: high-speed rail.READ MORE

Forget the Environment, High-Speed Rail Is Good for Business

Newly elected Republican governors have been falling over themselves to return federal funding earmarked for high-speed rail; a new report shows this strategy is going to backfire economically. Plus, you're not stuck in traffic and your friendly TSA agent doesn't have to caress you. All aboard now?READ MORE

A $53 Billion Plan to Bring High-Speed Rail to the U.S.

The government unveiled a strategy today to spend a whopping $53 billion on high-speed rail over the next six years. First up? Florida. READ MORE

China Dominates ASEAN Talks, Links to Singapore With High-Speed Rail

The Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor is to receive a very important new stop this year.READ MORE

Amtrak's $117 Billion Plan For High Speed Travel

It's a dream to make Joe Biden weep: trains that connect East Coast cities at 220 miles per hour. But it won't be finished until 2040. Hear that sound? That's Europe and Asia laughing. READ MORE

California and China to Collaborate on Railroads...Again.

China has blatantly expressed interest, Governor Schwarzenegger has visited the country, and now the bidding process has opened.READ MORE

Peter Calthorpe's Vision for California: Save the Cities, Save the World

New Urbanism has traditionally positioned itself as an antidote to the soullessness of urban sprawl, with an emphasis on "soul" -- the ineffable benefits in living in places built to human scale rather than breaking out hard metrics ...READ MORE

Vegas Train War! Another L.A.-to-Vegas Train Will Get Gamblers There Slower, but Drunker

Yet another Sin City Express is on track: The X Train isn't high-speed, but it features luxury bar cars and a plan to be up and running by 2011.READ MORE

Richard Florida's Creative Destruction, Spatial Fix and The Great Reset

What doesn’t kill cities during this crisis will make them stronger. This is Richard Florida’s diagnosis in The Great Reset, which picks up where his last foray into pop economic geography, Who’s Your City? left off. READ MORE

Moving Designs for San Francisco Transit Terminal Put the Light Back in Rail

On top, there will be a 1000-foot long fountain shaped like a bus. Yes, a bus. Since this is a bus station, get it!READ MORE

Fail Rail! High-Speed Train Connecting Vegas to L.A. Comes Up 100 Miles Short

A train connecting Sin City with Southern California will terminate in Victorville, not L.A. Craps!READ MORE

High-Speed Rail Coming to Florida

Last Spring, President Obama announced an ultra-ambitious plan to bring an $8 billion high speed rail project to the U.S. At the time, Obama said that there were ten potential high-speed rail corridors in the works: ...READ MORE

Will the French Run the US High Speed Rail System?

Instead of attempting to install a country-wide high-speed rail network from scratch, perhaps we should rely on the expertise of countries that already have comprehensive rail systems. That's the thinking behind French national ...READ MORE

IBM's Global Rail Innovation Center Brings Next-Gen Train Systems to China

Any doubts about whether China will be the world's next high-speed rail hub can be put to rest now that IBM has firmly planted itself in the country with its first Global Rail Innovation Center. The center, according to IBM, will ...READ MORE

Coming Soon: America's High-Speed Rail Network

Efficient high-speed rail networks are already staple of many European and Asian countries. President Obama outlined an ambitious plan today to bring the United States up to speed--literally. It won't be cheap.READ MORE

Los Angeles and Mass Transit? Designers Can Dream

Los Angeles has had dalliances with various mass-transit ideas the way Jennifer Aniston has relationships with other celebrities: They seem perfect until the heartbreak starts. So we're both excited and nervous with the ...READ MORE