California set out to prove that the United States could build world class bullet trains, then spent well over ten billion dollars without putting a single paying passenger on board. The California ...

Caltrans is studying whether high-speed buses traveling up to 140 mph could provide a faster, lower-cost alternative to ...

Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track. Dr. Stephen Mattingly ...

Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, stakeholders and backers of the mega-project said Wednesday that they’re still very much onboard — ...

A bill that aims to keep some California high-speed rail records confidential passed the Assembly on Monday afternoon and is headed to the Senate.

With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who sat on the state's high-speed rail peer review group, said "failure is ...

California's high-speed rail funding was delayed yet again, causing some to wonder if the project truly is a train to nowhere ...

Since August, train travelers between Washington, D.C., and Boston have been zipping along the country’s busiest rail line at speeds of up to 160 mph, the fastest in America. Headlines proclaimed high ...

Ambitious plans are underway to build a high-speed rail network across Africa, connecting countries, regions and creating a transcontinental beltway that can transport people at up to 320 kilometers ...