While every mode of transportation in the U.S. will be affected as the climate changes, potentially the greatest impact on transportation systems will be flooding of roads, railways, transit systems, and airport runways in coastal areas because of rising sea levels and surges brought on by more intense storms, says a new report from the National Research Council.

Work on the high-speed rail link between Beijing and Shanghai will start anytime soon, Shanghai Railway Administration director Wu Qiang said yesterday.

Construction will hopefully start this year on two railways linking China's westernmost Xinjiang with the central Asian nations of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, sources with the regional government of Xinjiang said.

Riding high on its achievements, the Delhi Metro has added another feather in its cap when it became the first railway project in the world to be registered by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Beijing's subway system is expected to become the world's largest by 2015, with investment set to touch USD 10.8 billion by 2010.

The Russian Railway Company is all set to launch direct traffic from Moscow to Munich in Germany and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, however the fare will be only slightly less compared to those of air tickets.

German train drivers went on strike today, after pay talks with one of Germany's largest railway operators, Deutsche Bahn, failed to reach a compromise.

At the Transport Logistic 2007 RCA-Affiliate Car Rail Logistics Presented a Worldwide Unique Wagon Concept and a New Prototype of Wagon for Enclosed Car Transport

he first section of the East European High-Speed Line opens to passengers

After successfully launching dedicated freight corridors linking four metros, India is now teaming up with neighbouring countries to develop global railway corridors to cut down travel time.