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 ...

The Shanghai maglev, for instance, cost an estimated $60mn (€55mn) per mile of track. Another longstanding barrier for maglev trains is the inability to run them on existing infrastructure.

Germany has come up with the funds to launch its first magnetic levitation - or maglev - rail service. The state of Bavaria is to build the high-speed railway line from Munich city centre to its ...

However, it is in Europe that an innovative landscape is now taking shape, marked by the emergence of the Maglev train prototype designed by the Italian company IronLev. Specifically, Maglev ...

A maglev train could carry people from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore in 15 minutes. It could quite literally change the infrastructure of transportation in the United States and not just in Maryland.