Alberta to study high-speed rail as part of comprehensive passenger rail plan. The province of Alberta has completed five studies since 1985 about the possibility of high-speed rail between Calgary and Edmonton. There is no question that corridor is well suited for high-speed trains. It would be the simplest and least costly to implement of any other potential corridor in Canada. However, no government has moved forward on past study recommendations. It came as a surprise that Premier Danielle Smith has announced a nine million dollar study to look at a comprehensive passenger rail plan for Alberta. Part of that plan would include the Calgary-Edmonton high-speed rail link. It is a provincial embarrassment that a comprehensive inter-city passenger rail system does not exist in Alberta. We hope the resulting plan recommendations will have positive, constructive ways to move the province of Alberta forward to implement a modern  inter-city passenger rail system. That plan would includ...

The mandate of High Speed Rail Canada (HSRC) is to educate Canadians on all previous and current high-speed rail studies in Canada. Their website has been updated to include all eight previous Alberta high-speed rail studies on the possibility of a passenger rail service from Calgary to Edmonton. The public is welcome to use and download all these studies. Please credit HRSC as the source. A history video by HSRC of the Alberta studies will be released soon on the HSRC Youtube channel. Here is the LINK to all the Alberta studies page.

  It seems unbelievable that Government of Alberta would support the Transpod, and their yet to be developed 1000 km/h technology, over high speed trains. Yet the governement has signed a memorandum of understanding  The province is not putting any taxpayers money into the project but will identify suitable test track for the project. The company has raised some money for the test track project. What is Transpod? Since their are no existing Transpod systems in the world and the technology has not been proven we can only speculate on this Jetsons style dream plan. According to their website the Transpod is: The TransPod vehicle is built like an airline jet fuselage, containing rows of seats inside. Passengers board from platforms at each station. Powered by electrically-driven magnetic propulsion, the vehicle departs, gently accelerates to full speed inside the TransPod tube infrastructure, and decelerates on approach to the final destination station.The TransPod tube system w...