Christine Bowen got stuck on railroad tracks in her new Jeep as she was headed to work and a plow driver became her guardian angel before a train barreled through the area.

At the 'Train Zero' lab in the United Kingdom, engineers test systems like signal and speed using simulation. View on ...

Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail services a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single failure can have dramatic consequences.