A group of Shanghai residents have appealed to the German Chancellor to stop the extension of the Transrapid line near their homes. While some are angry at being evicted to make way for the track, ...

ARRIVED China is first to build commercial maglev trains; U.S. engineers want to emulate. China’s bold move to build 30 kilometers of magnetically levitated high-speed guideway between Shanghai and ...

When you finish lugging your bags through Shanghai’s massive Pudong International airport and recover from the blast of cigarette smoke in the lobby, you have two main ways to get to town. First, a ...

In his role as Chicago’s first tourist, Mayor Richard Daley has brought home interesting trinkets, including San Francisco-style trolleys and a Paris-inspired bike-sharing experiment that started last ...

Far from dawdling with technology, China is making rapid moves to improve railway transport within the country. It has e Shanghai is home to the world's only commercial high-speed maglev line. The ...

A train which travels at 119 meters per second? Incredible, but true. The Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Line performs at this speed. The high-speed train, scheduled for a trial run on Tuesday, is able to ...

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SHANGHAI — Other countries said no. But China said yes. So the world’s fastest passenger train will have its commercial maiden voyage here in the Middle Kingdom’s cutting-edge city in 2003. The ...

The future of the German-built magnetic levitation train Transrapid in China may be in doubt. According to German ARD public television, the Chinese government no longer wants to use the Transrapid to ...

The German railway consortium Transrapid says it has reached an agreement with China to build a high-speed levitation rail link in Shanghai. Transrapid said the magnetic monorail link will be built by ...