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As the United States gears up for Thanksgiving and its busiest travel week of the year, might high-speed trains get people where they're going faster in the near future?
November 23, 2009 |
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The Obama administration will make up to $13 billion available for high-speed railroad projects across the nation, which lags far behind the fast railways of Asia and Europe
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The drive for energy conservation coupled with the recession has the U.S. switching policy tracks with its push to develop a high-speed rail transportation network. But does it have enough engineering expertise to do it right?
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The government is pushing for it, but are high speed trains even possible in the U.S.? David Biello reports
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Green transportation is gaining momentum on U.S. railways
The stimulus bill that passed in February set aside $8 billion for high-speed rail service
The American Society of Civil Engineers, in their "Report Card for America's Infrastructure," give the U.S. rail system a C-
A study compares the impact of different transportation modes by taking into account everything from the steel in train tracks to the tires on aircraft landing gear
This crucial line of transportation crosses the Tibetan Plateau, parts of which are barely below freezing. Will any added warmth--either from climate change or the railway itself--destabilize the track's frozen foundation?
What can be done to shift more travelers over to American rail lines from cars and planes?
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