The development of high speed rail infrastructures in the US faces a great challenge given the concern of economic viability and political complexity. However, a deeper investigation reveals that most of these concerns and complexity issues can be explained from a cultural perspective, which...

With the election of a new government, intercity passenger rail, which had faded for years, is now back on President Obama's agenda. Technological innovation has brought focus to high speed intercity passenger rail transportation. This new focus has revealed too many people who are tired of...

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt for construction of new rail lines plus tens of billions of dollars of annual deficit spending to subsidize operating...