Imagine zipping from Valencia to Madrid in just 30 minutes, faster than a short-haul flight and without as much airport hassle.

Vancouver’s SkyTrain is more than just a light rail system—it holds world records and unique engineering secrets. From its tallest station at Metrotown to its deepest point 30 meters below sea level, ...

Researchers at Philips Applied Technologies have developed an innovative technique that allows standard linear motors to simultaneously provide movement along two axes rather than along a single axis.

To run a stepper motor smoothly, it's necessary to apply linear acceleration. However, conventional algorithms to generate linear acceleration require complicated mathematics, which makes it difficult ...

China's first linear-motor-powered metro train recently left the station. The first high efficiency linear motor (LM) propulsion system to power a metro train was successfully tested and validated at ...

Despite its name, that famous old steam engine, the Flying Scotsman, never flew. But engineers in Japan are developing trains that do. Using the “wing-in-ground” (WIG) effect, in which a high-pressure ...

We'll be honest with you -- IDL Motors' installation at Toy Fair 2008 was a bit short on details, but we're certainly digging what we saw. Apparently, both the Bullet Train & Cars and Z-drive ...

TOKYO, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The world's fasted railway speed was achieved in Japan Tuesday when a manned linear-motor train reached 361 mph. In a run on test tracks conducted by the Central Japan Railway ...