The Future of Transportation
HYPERLOOP
FROM LOS ANGELES TO SAN FRANCISCO
337.51 miles, 12 hours by train, 6 hours by car, 1 .5 hours by airplane. People are spending so much time to travel between LA and SF every day. In the future, there will be a new transportation system that could shuttle passengers between LA and SF in 30 minutes.
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It’s the Hyperloop.
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Part of the
High speed
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transporta-
of Hyperloop.
tion tunnel.
WHAT IS THE HYPERLOOP The Hyperloop is a conceptual high speed transportation system originally put forward by entrepreneur Elon Musk, incorporating reduced pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.
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HOW THE HYPERLO WORKS
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HOW THE HYPERLOOP WORKS
as a continuous strip. Linear induction, used on maglev trains and the Toei Oedo Line in Tokyo’s subway, has no moving parts and low
intermodal container. The capsule should weigh about 68,000 pounds and could theoretically accelerate from zero to 750mph in less than a minute.
may need to be deployed as it comes to a stop.
volumes of air away from
the nose. Without it, the
pod would be pushing all
the air in front of it. like
a syringe, or you’d have
tube-to-pod-area ratio.
speed allowable given a
Kantrowitz limit—the top
bigger tube. Respect the
maintenance costs.
induction motors spaced along the tube or installed
hold a standard 40-foot
size-sleds. Landing gear
makes the hyperloop
possible, transferring huge
to spend big bucks on a
river” propelled by linear
feet long, big enough to
the bottom of lunch-tray-
of the capsule is what
speeds along a “magnetic
capsule will be about 70
cushion of air pumped from
pressor fan on the front
PROPULSION The Hyperloop capsule
The capsule will ride on a
PAYLOAD
AIR BEARINGS
COMPRESSOR
Mounting a giant com-
Hyperloop Tech’s cargo
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a desiccant.
injected into the tube as
little nitrogen may be
pressure at sea level. A
or one-thousandth the air
air pressure at about 100
pumps will keep internal
significantly. Valves and
near-vacuum to reduce drag
Capsules will travel in a
VACUUM TUBE
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WHERE THE HYPERLOOP IS GOING TO GO
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San Diego
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Sacramento
Portland
Denver
Huston
Dallas
Amarillo
Minneapolis
The US national routes in the near future.
Seattle
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Chicago
New York
Boston
Greensboro
Washington
Philadelphia
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Atlanta
St. Louis
Detroit
THE US NATIONAL ROUTES
EUROPEAN ROUTES
That was roughly sized out in the 2013
European routes have
alpha-level design document was from
been put forward. In
the Greater Los Angeles Area to the
January 2016, a Paris
San Francisco Bay Area. That concep-
to Amsterdam notional
tual system as outlined would begin
route was proposed by Delft
around Sylmar, just south of the Tejon
Hyperloop. A Warsaw
Pass, approximately follow Interstate
University of Technology
5 to the north, and arrive at a station
team is evaluating
nearHayward on the east side of San
potential routes from
Francisco Bay. Several proposed branches
Cracow to Gdansk
were also shown in the design document,
across Poland proposed
including Sacramento, Anaheim, San
by Hyper Poland.
Diego, and Las Vegas.
MARS According to Musk, Hyperloop would be useful on Mars as no tubes would be needed. This is because Mars’ atmosphere is about 1% the density of the Earth’s. For the hyperloop concept to work on Earth, low-pressure tubes are required to reduce air resistance. However, if it were to be built on Mars, the lower air resistance would allow a hyperloop to be created with no tube, only a track.
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GR 601 / Type System Project 3 / Chapbook Instructor / David Hake Eddie Lin / 04112912
HYPERLOOP : The future of transportation
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