A nation with technology at its heart, Japan is already home to a dizzying array of high tech gadgets, gleaming skyscrapers and even restaurants staffed by robots. When it comes to transport the ...

Europe is very close to making a huge move for its railway industry. A test by Italian firm IronLev has provided successful examples of how a magnetic levitation train, or maglev, might work on ...

Japan continues to set the standards for high-speed transport with its latest prototype, a magnet-powered train designed by Central Japan Railway Co. A prototype Series Lo train was unveiled at a test ...

Floating trains have glided closer to Europe after a pioneering trial of magnetic levitation — aka maglev. Italian firm IronLev, which developed the tech, claims to have completed the first-ever ...

Turbo-swift floating trains sound like a thing of the future, but in Japan they’re already out there breaking records. On Thursday, a maglev bullet train hit 366 miles per hour—the fastest train speed ...

YAMANASHI, JAPAN — The inside of the train car goes eerily quiet at 93 miles per hour, a familiar rattle disappearing into a hum as it lifts four inches off the ground, levitating and speeding through ...

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. os Angeles-area port officials are planning to study whether magnetic levitation trains could be used to ferry cargo containers moving through the nation’s ...

A blink and you will miss it test ride on the maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line offers some idea of the potential of traveling at ...

We 100% agree with the recent commentary by Angelette C. Aviles about the maglev dream (“Why Maryland’s maglev dream doesn’t track,” April 21). Instead of a dream, the proposed maglev train has been a ...