In the 1800s, when pneumatic tubes shot telegrams and small items all around buildings and sometimes small cities, the future of mass transit seemed clear: we'd be firing people around through these ...

Science fiction is replete with a number of different ways to travel. There are spaceships and transporters, man-made worm holes that make intergalactic travel a reality…the list goes on and on.

Pneumatic Futurama-style transport systems were proposed as far back as the late 1800’s following the invention of pneumatic tubes for carrying mail around buildings. Swiss company Acabion sees such ...

Evacuated Tube Transport capsules will be lightweight and able to hold up to six passengers or 800 lbs of payload, then zip away at 4,000 mph. Daryl Oster wants to change the world by making it ...

[youtube width=”537″ height=”303″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpWcn-1RZU[/youtube] Traveling cross-country can be a drag, and flying across the world is ...

Hyperloop One, one of three companies hoping to make Elon Musk’s dream of high-speed travel a reality, has announced its first track may be built in Dubai in as soon as five years. The rest of this ...

Supersonic transport, like retired turbojet Concorde, can officially be considered old-school. Especially now that engineers have figured out a way to shuttle people across the Atlantic at hypersonic ...

Could a train possibly keep up with a Boeing 737? China now holds the key to this problem with its T-Flight project. The idea here is to set a brand-new record in train speed by incorporating the ...