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Popular Mechanics
January 26, 2010
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Tunnels: Gallery The tourist and traveler can learn about tunnels all over the world and their unique features and background.   |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Sandra Upson |
How to See the Unseen City Wealthy cities are increasingly facing a premium on space. As metropolitan areas grow denser and richer, the urban underground is likewise poised to mirror the congestion above. |
Wired
August 21, 2007
Julian Smith |
Quake Fears, Ancient Finds Have Europe-Asia Tunnel on Nonstop Delay The Marmaray tunnel project is ambitious enough to worry even the most experienced engineers, but its location could give a seismologist night sweats. All this work is taking place just 12 miles from the North Anatolian Fault, Eurasia's version of the San Andreas. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2008
John R. Quain |
5 New Super Trains on Fast Track to World's Fastest Bullet The case for high-speed, low-impact train travel is clear, and many governments have ambitious high-speed train plans in the works. But are they realistic? The author evaluates proposals for the 200-mph trains of the future. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Turkey Building the World's Deepest Immersed Tube Tunnel Soon, the Turks will connect Europe and Asia under the Bosporus via a 8.25-mile-long Marmaray Tunnel, which will provide a rail link for a rapid transit system. |
Scientific American
August 2009
Michael Moyer |
High Hopes for High-Speed Rail Will a boom in government investment bring true high-speed rail to the U.S.? |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
Erik Sofge |
The Top 5 Engineering Projects of 2009 These projects involved tunnels, bridges, earthquake proofing, and environmental enhancements. |
Reason
March 2009
Adrian Moore & Sam Staley |
A Better New New Deal How can we get the most bang for our transportation buck? Here are six ideas for the new president and cash-strapped governors. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Sandra Upson |
Finland's Nuclear Waste Solution Scandinavians are leading the world in the disposal of spent nuclear fuel |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007
John Quain |
Super Trains: Plans to Fix U.S. Rail Could End Road & Sky Gridlock With airports and highways more congested than ever, new steel-wheel and magnetic levitation lines that move millions in Europe and Japan have the potential to resurrect the age of American railroads. |
National Defense
February 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Daunting Challenges Face Those Waging Subterranean Warfare More and more adversarial countries are building networks of underground tunnels. The U.S. military needs to be prepared to fight underground. |
CIO
December 1, 2000
Meridith Levinson |
The Money Pit Could IT have prevented the largest, most expensive, most complex public works project in the history of the United States from becoming a byword for poor and possibly felonious project management? |
Wired
June 26, 2007
David Wolman |
Hey America, Make With the !@~$ High-Speed Rail Already French engineers have created Ligne a Grande Vitesse, a Paris-to-Strasbourg high-speed rail system the moves at a record- breaking 357 miles per hour. This new system provides a glimpse of next-generation railway travel. |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Online and underground Thanks to the Web, the sport of infiltration -- creeping through abandoned buildings and unused subway tunnels -- is thriving as never before... |
National Defense
July 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Hunters Unearth Smuggling Tunnels Authorities along the border with Mexico have uncovered the longest underground smuggling passageway discovered by law enforcement so far. Training and technology used to hunt tunnels along the Mexican and Canadian borders has immediate applications in Southwest Asia. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
High-Tech Border Patrol: 5 New Tricks to Find Smuggler Tunnels From ground penetrating radar to cosmic rays, new technology gives border patrol the edge. |
