The future of

travel
Hyperloop

• Silvia Olarasu
• Robert Tofan
• Beniamin Radu
 What’s Hyperloop ?
• Hyperloop is a proposed system
of transport that would see
containers travel at high speeds
through a tube that has been
pumped into a near-vacuum.
• The futurisc system transport is
the idea of the engineer, founder
of PayPal, Tesla Motors and
SpaceX, Elon Musk.
 How does it work ?
• In Musk’s words, a hyperloop is a system to “build a tube over or under the ground that
contains a special environment.”
• The special environment is created by the tunnels where the most of the air is removed.
They are not complete vacuums, but much less air means reduced friction and less energy
is required to reach a higher speed. The musk’s design saw the hyperloop pods held above
the ground by a layer of air, similar to how the puck of an air hockey table floats across its
surface.
Hyperloop has four key features:
1. The passenger capsules aren't propelled by air pressure like in
vaccuum tubes, but by two electromagnetic motors. It is aimed to
travel at a top speed of 1,200 kilometers per hour.
2. The tube tracks do have a vaccuum, but not completely
free of air. Instead, they have low pressure air inside of
them. The hyperloop will feature a compressor fan in the
front of the capsule. The compressor fan can redirect air to
the back of the capsule, but mostly air will be sent to the
air bearings.
3. Air bearings are ski like
paddles that levitate the
capsules above the
surface of the tube to
reduce friction.
• The tube track is designed to be immune to weather and earthquakes.
They are also designed to be self-powering and unobsrtuctive. The
pillars that rise the tube above the ground have a small foot-print that
can sway in the case of an earthquake. Each of the tube sections can
move around flexibly of the train ships because there isn't a constant
track that capsules rely on. And solar panels on the top the track supply
power to the periodic motors.
Some estimations
• San Francisco to Los Angeles
(559 km) in just 50 min. In this
time is included the trip to
transport , the waiting for
transport and the actual
transport.
• Comparing to a car (6-8 hrs),
aircraft (aprox. 5 hrs) and a
train (3 hrs) it is more efficient.
• The price of a ticket for this trip
should be around 30 $.
Thank you !