Research Article

The fifth mode of transportation: Hyperloop

Volume: 1 Number: 1 July 15, 2020
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The fifth mode of transportation: Hyperloop

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.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Transportation Engineering

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

July 15, 2020

Submission Date

June 30, 2020

Acceptance Date

July 6, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 1 Number: 1

APA
Armağan, K. (2020). The fifth mode of transportation: Hyperloop. Journal of Innovative Transportation, 1(1), 1105. https://izlik.org/JA58GJ93TZ

Journal of Innovative Transportation (JInnovTrans)
ISSN (Online): 2717-8889 | DOI Prefix: 10.53635/jit | Publisher: Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Türkiye
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