Dear EarthTalk: If train travel is so much less polluting than driving or flying, why are passenger rail options in the U.S. so limited compared to Europe? And is anything being done to shift more ...

Invensys, which makes systems that manage oil refineries, power stations and railways, is in the middle of a global infrastructure build-out. But the most interesting of its sectors may be the ...

Inland Rail is essentially a high-capacity freight line, linking Melbourne to Brisbane. But the project also seeks to connect the cities, farms, and mines in-between to domestic and international ...

Railroad advocates and transportation policy experts talked about the benefits of rail systems, during the third annual Progress in Motion forum at the Raleigh Convention Center Wednesday. They ...

The 2018 University of Delaware Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering “Big Data in Railroad Maintenance Planning Conference,” held Dec. 13-14, spotlighted the progression the industry is ...

Out of a remote location in a corner of New England comes an interesting operations research view of what Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) is, and is not. Peter Swan, a Ph.D rail and logistics ...