SHIZUOKA–The president of Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) met with the newly elected Shizuoka governor on June 5 to get stalled negotiations over the construction of a new maglev line back ...

The maglev was supposed to be a monorail that transported students from one end of campus to another. "It is apart of ODU. When you come out here, you see and say 'Wow, I’m at ODU'," Cory ...

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.

China has been using maglev trains since the debut of the Shanghai maglev train in 2004. That train only travels 19 miles, but it manages the distance in seven minutes and 20 seconds, reaching ...

When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore was in Japan expressing amazement at magnetic-levitation train technology, residents in the path of the proposed high-speed train back home were less than impressed.

As it stands, maglev trains have been running for decades, with one even running in Germany during the Cold War from 1989 to 1991. Unfortunately, despite the success seen with those maglev trains ...