The fifth mode of transportation: Hyperloop

Year 2020, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1105 - , 15.07.2020

Kemal Armağan

Abstract

Hyperloop has proposed as a mode of passenger
and freight transportation. The concept was about a vactrain that provides
very-high-speed rail transportation which was invented two centuries ago.  This old high-speed transportation idea in
evacuated tubes has become popular again. Ellon Musk has proposed Hyperloop as
a system that reduces the travel time between Los Angeles to San Francisco
cities (563 km/350 miles) down to 35 minutes with a very high speed in 2012. To
improve the idea an open-source design of the Hyperloop pod has released by the
Tesla and Space X teams and some competitions held. Many ideas have come out at
those competition in 2015 to 2019. Elon Musk himself described hyperloop as
"a cross between a Concorde, a railgun, and an air hockey table"
within the time in those competitions. For the competitions a trial test track
of a 1-mile tube adjacent have built in Los Angeles city by Space X and the
experimental work for trying to ensure the capabilities of the fifth mode of
transportation. With recent innovations, Hyperloop can be described as a
sustainable, self-powered, high speed, safe and a promising transportation mode
for future, but its deficiencies will have to lead some changes and
improvements for Hyperloop in future.

Keywords

hyperloop, vactrain, fast transportation

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