A new study published in Social Science & Medicine provides evidence that access to high-speed rail networks can significantly improve the cognitive health of middle-aged and older adults. The ...

"The grand ‘vision’ of the project... was far short of any realistically achievable cost and schedule," Lou Thompson says.

An ambitious state-run high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco has gone off track.

When it comes to high-speed rails, the United States is way behind other nations around the world. However, there is ...

Elon Musk unloaded on California’s massive High-Speed Rail Authority, blasting it as a wasteful boondoggle while claiming ...

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 ...

High-speed rail can be found around the world. Yet so far, the projects haven't tracked in the U.S., where both the public ...

After more than 10 years of overall construction in the Central Valley, the project has its first “logistics hub” for ...

Differences in African rail gauges are just one challenge facing the continent’s ambition for a transcontinental integration.

The interstate highway system transformed the U.S. economy and American life in the 20th century. High-speed rail can have a similar effect in the 21st century, reindustrializing and reconnecting ...

The Golden State’s long-delayed high-speed rail project has completed construction on a massive 150-acre railhead facility in ...

High-speed trains can now get earthquake warnings within seconds, allowing targeted stops instead of shutting down entire ...