Reporting from Qinhuangdao, China — The contraption straddles half of a four-lane road. Arctic blue and nearly a quarter the length of a football field, the bus-train hybrid looks like a prop built ...

The Hyperloop may help humanity travel great distances at remarkable speeds, but how should we sustainably get from point A to B in congested cities? An innovative public transport design looked like ...

Six years ago, a video for a bus that operates above roadways–it’s actually more like a train–raised some curious eyebrows. Some dismissed it as impractical, while other saw it as inexpensive solution ...

Inventions are not always what they seem. This is particularly the case when a device or design appears to magically solve all your problems. Last week we wrote about the prototype of a “bus” that ...

It's not that often that one of those crazy-looking transportation concepts you see on the cover of an old 1950s Popular Mechanics comes true, but I'm delighted to say that's happened. In China, a ...

China is home to more people than any other country on Earth, and they're moving into megacities at a rate that's simply unprecedented. In fact, just about everything about today's China is ...

This picture from China News shows China's latest scheme for handling both its traffic jams and its air pollution -- a combination bus/train that would straddle the road so cars could drive underneath ...

It looks like an awesome vision of the sci-fi future of public transit. But even though it doesn’t collide with cars, it might collide with reality. A handful of Chinese cities plan to begin testing a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover what's trending in China. China is the world’s capital of fake products, but a high-profile scam involving a futuristic ...