In the 1800s, when pneumatic tubes shot telegrams and small items all around buildings and sometimes small cities, the future of mass transit seemed clear: we'd be firing people around through these ...

China claims to have become the first country in the world to successfully carry out tests on a Hyperloop-style, magnetically levitated train inside a vacuum tube — or “vactrain” for short — according ...

A Canadian company has unveiled plans for a fully electric train-style vehicle which could travel at 1,000 kilometers per hour and, it claims, would cost less than a plane ticket to travel on. FluxJet ...

A company in Canada is planning to build a network of tube trains that could make high speed rail look downright pokey, and even outrun planes. Canadian company TransPod recently announced the FluxJet ...

Earlier this week, everyone was banging on about Virgin Hyperloop, the train in a tube that’ll supposedly be able to hit speeds of 1,000 kph (620 mph) when it’s finished. More specifically, everyone ...

Supersonic transport, like retired turbojet Concorde, can officially be considered old-school. Especially now that engineers have figured out a way to shuttle people across the Atlantic at hypersonic ...

China is developing a next generation maglev train designed to reach speeds of up to 1,000 kmh using magnetic levitation and low vacuum tubes. This video explores the technology behind the system, how ...