When attendees to the 21st annual Maglev conference arrive at Inchon Airport in Korea this week, they'll be whisked downtown on a brand new train that glides effortlessly on a field of magnetic energy ...

Conventional “steel wheel” train technology has reached the end of its evolution: Modern tweaking of rails and controls has only squeezed out another 70 mph or so of speed while raising maintenance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Old Dominion University officials confirmed this week that parts of the longstanding maglev structure may be demolished. “Old ...

Maglev trains are very real and very practical, but maglev cars? Well, let’s just say they aren’t exactly in their golden age. That hasn’t stopped researchers at China’s Southwest Jiaotong University ...

The federal government is pulling the plug after decades of grant spending and permit studies for a proposed 26.6-mile high-speed magnetic rail project between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., ...

Last December, the General Services Administration (GSA) released a report describing its test-bed installation of variable-speed maglev compressor technology in a chiller plant in a government ...

As the XpressWest and X Train passenger rail projects look to regroup, supporters of Southern Nevada’s original high-speed plan — the maglev — are seeing an opportunity to re-enter the game. Bruce ...

When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore was in Japan expressing amazement at magnetic-levitation train technology, residents in the path of the proposed high-speed train back home were less than impressed. "I ...

It sounds like the latest fad in new-wave, alternative medicine, but magnetic levitation has emerged as one of the most exciting and controversial technologies to be considered for the future of ...

Japan has seen the first successful test of a new high-speed maglev train that should be able to reach speeds as high as 500km/h. The L0 Series train is expected to be able to make the 322km trip ...