Hyperloop Transportation System

 Hyperloop is a new mode of transport other than our conventional transport system( water, rail, road & air) that seeks to change the pattern by being both fast and inexpensive for people and goods. Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation that propels a capsule-like vehicle through a near-vacuum tube at more than airline speed. The pods would accelerate to cruising speed gradually using a linear electric motor and glide above their track using passive magnetic levitation or air bearings. Hyperloop consists of a low pressure tube with capsules that are transported at both low and high speeds throughout the length of the tube. The capsules are supported on a cushion of air, featuring pressurized air and aerodynamic lift. Passengers may enter and exit Hyperloop at stations located either at the ends of the tube, or branches along the tube length. It quickly becomes apparent just how dramatically the Hyperloop could change transportation, road congestion and minimize the carbon footprint globally. With the Hyperloop, extremely fast, inexpensive intercity travel would be widely accessible. If both people and goods can move more quickly and comparatively cheaply, rapid growth is a logical outcome. 

Working principle of Hyperloop System

Hyperloop is a completely new mode of fastest transportation. Hyperloop is firstly proposed by Elon musk and a team of engineer from Tesla Motors and the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation in August 2013. The concept of hyperloop includes travelling people from one place to another place in a capsule which is propelling at a very high speed. We can also called hyperloop as a solar powered transportation system and it is an alternative of high speed train. Basically hyperloop is magnetically levitated train which runs inside a long tube or pipe. It consists of low pressure tube with capsule that is transported at both low and high speeds. It is driven by linear induction motor and compressor. It includes 28 passenger pods.

• Companies like Hyperloop ONE, Transpod, Hardt, Hyper Poland are the main companies working on the idea.

• Virgin Hyperloop has successfully completed the world's first passenger test of hyperloop technology, a new form of high-speed transportation. The test was conducted Sunday in a desert outside of Las Vegas, where the company built a 500-meter vacuum tube as a test track.

• Hyperloop is currently working towards 670 mph (1080 kph) passenger pods, capable of zipping us from Los Angeles to downtown Las Vegas in under 30 minutes. Rocket Travel (think SpaceX's Starship) promises to deliver you almost anywhere on the planet in under an hour.

• Hyperloop, the futuristic and still theoretical transportation system has been designated a “public infrastructure project” by the state of Maharashtra. This would make India the first country ever to get the fully functional Hyperloop train.