High speed rail in Georgia has a 14-million dollar boost from the federal government.

14.2 million federal dollars will fund a study on the environmental impacts of a high-speed rail line between Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The rail would use technology known as magnetic levity, or maglev, which moves rail car on a cushion of air.

The study will explore potential routes and station locations.

Georgia Department of Transportation officials say the line could take many trucks off Georgia roads and impact the movement of freight passing in and out of the Port of Savannah.

Georgia and Tennessee applied for the federal grant together.

The original idea was to connect Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chattanooga’s Lovell Field.

The line could also be extended to Nashville.