East Side Access is the massive mainline rail project New York City has been working on for the past few decades, and it'll bring a brand new terminal to Grand Central Terminal, alongside Long Island Rail Road services. The culmination of the East Side Access project will be the opening of Grand Cen...

Hong Kong's MTR just got a whole lot bigger. The Shatin-Central Link is one of the important railway projects in Hong Kong, and forming two critical railway corridors-Tuen Ma Line and the East Rail Line Extension connecting the Fourth Harbour Crossing Railway. The new railways might bring convenien...

Take a behind the scenes look at how the new LIRR Terminal at Grand Central Madison was created. The opening of Grand Central Madison will give millions of people unprecedented access to the East Side of Manhattan.

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apa...

Hyperloop represents the greatest leap in transport infrastructure for generations. Here we explain the concept that's about to revolutionize our world.

As seen in this clip from NBC News, the killer storm that pummeled the East Monday and left the nation's largest city with a crippled transit system, widespread power outages and severe flooding has resurfaced the debate about how best to protect a city like New York against rising storm surges.

Companies and universities are working together to develop automated cargo ships. The Wall Street Journal looks at Rolls-Royce’s concepts for the next revolution in maritime transport. Photo: Rolls Royce.

40 years ago, if you were to ask somebody what the future of transportation is going to look like, they might tell you it would be flying cars. But right now, in 2022, if you might ask what the future of transportation will look like by the year 2050, people might think of point-to-point suborbital...

Penn was built on the concept of innovation. “If it’s new, novel and holds promise to change the world,” says President Amy Gutmann, “you’ll find it at Penn.”

Billionaire philanthropist Elon Musk, often likened to Iron Man's Tony Stark, has hinted at a new high-speed transport he is working on that could put planes and trains out of business.

The new technology would be a travel tube with Concorde-like seating inside. The travel tubes would be launched...