Hyperloop

Startup HyperloopTT has teamed up with MAD Architects to imagine what Hyperloop infrastructure could look like, putting forward a design that turns tube-tops into green walkways and pylons into urban farming centers.

​​Virgin Hyperloop One has expanded its relationship with Saudi Arabia, with the two announcing plans to develop a new test track in the country’s west. The facility would become the world’s longest hyperloop tube as the gulf nation eyes a wider rollout of the futuristic transport system.​

SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod competition continues to bring out the very best in student engineering teams from all around the world. The reigning champions from the Technical University of Munich have returned this year to fend off their challengers, setting a new speed record in the process. ​

HyperloopTT has just welcomed its first full-scale passenger capsule to its first test facility in France, with the CEO indicating that the commercial customers could hop aboard as early as 2022.​

Billed as the first such study in the US, the results of a feasibility study into Missouri Hyperloop are now in and outline some of the potential benefits stemming from a proposed route along the existing I-70 highway. ​​

​​Exactly five years after its founding, startup HyperloopTT is keen to show off the progress that it has made by revealing its very first full-scale passenger pod. The sleek and futuristic capsule will apparently be ready to roll in a commercial sense sometime in 2019.

Spain is set to receive a shiny new facility for the development of next-gen transport, with Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop One reaching an agreement with local authorities to open a research center in the region of Andalusia, in the country's south.

The latest chapter in ​​SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod competition was played out over the weekend. The third instalment of the event placed an emphasis on speed, with teams edging ever closer to the supersonic targets of the Hyperloop system.

​The people-moving potential of a Hyperloop rightly generates a lot of the buzz, we are talking about fizzing people through low-vacuum tubes at around the speed of sound. But what about its capacity to moves goods with new levels of efficiency?

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) has announced plans for a commercial Hyperloop system for the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi. All things going to plan, it will be ready just in time for Expo 2020, a festival of human ingenuity to be hosted by nearby Dubai.​

​Startup Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has been quite busy signing deals to explore the potential of high-speed transport routes all around the world. It is now welcoming the tubes that will make up its first test track in Toulouse, France.

​Virgin Hyperloop One has welcomed the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to a test facility in the Mojave Desert, showing off a specially branded passenger pod as the county looks to accelerate its efforts to get the futuristic transport system up and running.