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Obama outlines high-speed rail plan for U.S.

President Obama today outlined a plan to build regional high-speed rail routes in the United States. Cross-country trips will still be conducted best in a plane or as a road trip, but options to go from Detroit to Chicago, for example, would include the new trains that can go up to 110 mph. The regional routes include a Chicago Hub, a California corridor (Sacramento and San Francisco down past LA), and a southeast corridor (DC down to Florida). There's a map of the proposed routes and all 10 regional routes after the jump. The federal ... Read more →

California voters approve $10 billion for high speed train Sebastian Blanco

California, say hello to the bullet train. In the big election America held on Tuesday, one transportation-related measure that passed was California's Proposition 1A, named the "Safe, Reliable High ...

Blade Runner concept combines a bus with a train Jeremy Korzeniewski

Mass transit is a concept that holds significant promise in the U.S. as it is currently very under-utilized. Train travel has become more popular now that the price of gas has rocketed upwards, ...

Stagecoach grows better than expected Xavier Navarro

Bus and rail company Stagecoach has reported better than expected growth since May 1st. According to the company, Stagecoach's UK bus business was up 9.3 percent, while rail revenues rose nine ...

Amtrak ridership up along with gas prices Jeremy Korzeniewski

The recent trend of escalating gas prices has had major ripple effects on the auto industry, not the least of which is a well-defined (and well-covered) switch to fuel efficient small cars and ...

Drop the family at Disney, take MagLev to Vegas 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Gamblers with families might start humming "It's a small world after all" if plans for a high-speed maglev train between Disneyland and Las Vegas continues to go forward. The "technical corrections" legislation that was recently passed freed up $42 million from a 2005 transportation bill to go ...

Greening the rails in Japan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Most people are under the impression that trains are a reasonably green sort of transportation. When used in a city to move people about, the environmental benefits seem pretty obvious. Fewer cars are needed on the roads, decreasing congestion and electric trains are more efficient and create less ...

High speed trains are killing airplanes 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Here's another harbinger: air traffic between cities that are linked by high speed train lines is significantly reduced. This was a notorious effect of the Paris-Lyon route (Europe's first high speed train link), and has been seen more recently in the Paris-London, Paris-Brussels and ...

California may have first truly high-speed rail in U.S. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While riding the Shinkansen from Nagoya to Kyoto and back last year, I got a real eye opener. It wasn't just the amazing scenes of sleepy villages and snowy bamboo hillsides that passed by between dark mountain tunnels but rather the vision that had gone into imagining the future. I could picture a ...

America to get high speed rail 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Before you get too excited by the headline, I should clarify that by "America," I mean South America. And by "South America," I mean Argentina. An editorial in the International Railway Journal strikes an optimistic note on the surge of plans for high speed rail construction and expansion worldwide, ...

Videos: Jan. 12 was "no pants day" on public transit 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Who says taking the train is boring? January 12th was "no pants" day on the public transit system. It's a prank started by Charlie Todd's Improv Everywhere. There really isn't a point to it and it's not a protest against anything. Well, perhaps they are protesting pants or celebrating legs? Anyway, ...

It's Friday: Fahrenheit 451's vision of the future includes very green transport 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

I'm not in favor of firefighters burning books but I really liked the vision of future transport in Ray Bradbury's scif-fi classic Fahrenheit 451. As you can see in the video above, Montag, a book-burning firefighter, must walk home quite a distance after taking the train. There are no cars on the ...

Texans' taxes buy terrific trains 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Almost a hundred new ultra-low-emission locomotives are cruising the rails in Texas (98 total, with 46 based in Dallas-Fort Worth, 43 in Houston, and nine in San Antonio) thanks mostly to a $75 million Texas Commission on Environmental Quality grant. According to this article in the Dallas Morning ...

$700,000 study will test the feasibility of gas-ethanol blend pipeline 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Association of Oil Pipe Lines along with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration will study the effect of E10, E15 and E20 blends on corrosion and cracking of pipelines. The results of the $700,000 study is expected in 12 to 18 months and ...

Hybrid trains around the world, from 1986 to the present 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It seems that the latest trend in train technology is hybrid powertrains. For a long time, diesel trains have used electric motors for smoother power but as battery improvements arrive, the powertrains are becoming more sophisticated and handle features such as regenerative braking. Let's start ...

TV commercial for a new 50 MPG car? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

So, I am watching the History Channel and a TV commercial comes on with a car driving down a country road. The voice over says "what can a car that gets 50 miles per gallon do for the environment?" It's not a Honda or a Toyota, so my interest is piqued. What can it do? "Not as much as the car that ...

Germany to launch a 310 mile-per-hour maglev train 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I've been on quite a few flights lately, and usually, the worst part is not the airplane ride itself, but everything else that goes along with it. Like, either getting dropped off with all of your luggage or parking your car in the long-term lot, or taking a taxi ride. It sure would be nice if there ...

Grass in a train station? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Newcastle Central Station put artificial grass on the train platform. It's a stunt by rail operators GNER. They want people to take the train and not the plane. Plane travel generates far more CO2 emissions than train travel. This reminds people that the train station is the greener choice. ...

The world's greenest train station? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Of course, train travel has the potential to be one of the greenest forms of travel around. And, the best part of it all is that the more people on the train, the better! What I mean is that the emissions of the train can be spread over a larger number of people - people who might otherwise be ...

Video: Car-free city coming 2009 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Masdar initiative. Carbon neutral, zero waste city. And car-free. That's the part that's important to us. The video says cycling and walking will be the most popular form of transport. Everything you need will be 200 meters (656 feet) away. This is illustrated by creepy red rings in the video. ...

Friday Humor: Get out and push! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

High gas prices might have more of us considering traveling under our own power soon enough. But, I bet that none of you have ever thought you might have to get out and push... a train! I wonder just how hard it is to push a train along. Must be pretty hard, it took a few hundred people more than ...

Japan set to introduce magnetic levitation trains by 2025 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Remember the hoverboards from Back to the Future? Alright, this is just like that, except totally different. You see, both the hoverboards and these magnetic levitation (maglev) trains use magnetism to lift a few inches off the ground, or track, removing that nasty stumbling block of efficiency: ...

Flying between London and Paris causes ten times more CO2 than the train 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

If you're traveling between continental Europe and Britain and care about the environment, you might want to consider alternatives to flying. Since there are no bridges across the English Channel, that leaves the channel tunnel and the EuroStar train as the only option, (unless you're a really ...

Green train technology needed to keep air clean 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Railway operator BNSF Railway Co. is considering building a new railway hub at the Southern California Logistics Airport, which is projected to remove hundreds of trucks off the road thanks to rail's massive freight capabilities. The rail hub would process approximately 50,000 freights cars in the ...

Japanese rail research group successfully test fuel cell train 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last week, Japan's Railway Research Technical Institute (RTRI) officially announced that they completed successful running tests of what they say is the world's first fuel cell-powered train. Their research and development began in 2001 as they aimed to develop a railway system that would reduce ...

Wired NextFest Report: Wrap-up and more advanced vehicles 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

(Editor's note: to read the rest of Derrick's NextFest coverage, click here) Overall, Wired's NextFest certainly wasn't the Paris Motor Show, nor was it meant to be. Instead, it was a gathering of new technologies in many different fields. On the positive side, I'd say that if there was any ...

Trains to solve gas crisis? 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Paul Weyrich, after commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Defense Interstate Highway System, points to one possible solution to the current high gas prices: rail travel. Before the Interstate, major long-distance travel was done by railcar. The railroads crisscrossed the nation, hauling ...

Ethanol demand prompting higher railroad use 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Rollin, rollin, rollin.... Well, here's an unexpected side-effect of ethanol demand. Railroad companies are reporting a surge in rail use to transport the fuel. Iowa, with 25 ethanol production plants, is the largest producer and subsequently biggest rail user. While ethanol can be shipped via ...


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