Hyperloop Is Likely To Be Rolled Out In

India Or Saudi Arabia Before The UAE,

Says Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem

CEO of Emirati MNC DP World, Sultan Ahmed bin

Sulayem, on Sunday said that the hyperloop is likely to
be rolled out in India or Saudi Arabia before the UAE.
Sulayem made the remarks on the sidelines of Dubai Expo
2020, a six-month-long event that started on October 1 and he
said high-speed transportation will become a reality in many
countries around the world by the end of this decade and if the
hyperloop comes to India, it will be highly beneficial for the
country.
Sulayem said that at first he will see in India then he will see it
in Saudi Arabia. He hopes that once we achieve economies of
scale and you have long routes and it is popular, for the speed
of an aeroplane you will pay the price of a truck, Sulayem said
when asked about the timeline for the Virgin Hyperloop.
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A system similar to the Hyperloop will be developed by several
companies, including Virgin Hyperloop, whose majority partner
is Dubai port operator DP World.

 
Hyperloops are described as a sealed tube or system of tubes
having low air pressure along which an object can travel
without significant air resistance.
Earlier this year, Hyperloop One tested shipping humans
onboard a hyperloop pod for the first time.
A full-scale Hyperloop pod is on display at Expo 2020, where
the company is displaying a full-scale Hyperloop pod. Sulayem
also told CNN in an interview that it’s not decades, it’s years.
DP World earlier claimed that Hyperloop could shrink inventory
movement timescales dramatically. The company predicts that
finished goods inventory will reduce by as much as 25%, as
well as warehouse space requirements and costs.
Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One and
contractor to the project, announced plans for a hyperloop
system between Pune and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra in
February 2018. These plans have since been put on hold
because of the Coronavirus outbreak in the state.
The state Urban Development Department granted the
Hyperloop project the status of a ‘Public Infrastructure Project’
in November 2018. Thus, the project is eligible for the Swiss
Challenge Method for awarding the work.
According to reports, the state may decide not to proceed with
the proposed Pune-Mumbai Hyperloop, an ultra-modern
transport system that has the potential to reduce travel time
between the two cities to 25 minutes from 2.5-3 hours.
Anit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan, expressed
reservations on Friday about the project because it was in its
experimental stage and had never been “implemented
anywhere in the world”.
In an article for The Indian Express, the author explains the
mystery behind the capsule technology, the plans for its
implementation in Maharashtra, and the gap between idea and
reality.
How does Hyperloop technology work?

The co-founder of Tesla Inc and several other corporations,

Elon Musk, unveiled his vision of a new transportation system
in July 2012, which he called the ‘Hyperloop’. Musk’s vision was
of a transport system that would never crash and which would
be immune to the effects of the weather. Similarly, it would be
three or four times faster than a bullet train, with a maximum
speed that would be twice that of an aircraft.
Musk detailed what the technology might look like a year later,
revealing that it could be passenger-friendly pods travelling
through long tubes at 760 mph (1,220 km/h) powered entirely
by solar energy.
This system could reduce travel time between Los Angeles and
San Francisco to 30 minutes (currently, it takes three hours in
high-speed trains to travel between those two cities).
According to Musk,
There is a possibility that Hyperloop could be the right solution
for city pairs located more than 1,500 km apart, with high
traffic.
Magnetic levitation allows the pods, which carry passengers, to
move at high speeds. Due to the near-vacuum conditions inside
the tubes, the pod experiences less resistance as it travels
through the tube, causing the speed to increase even more.
Founded by Musk, the open-source initiative was made
available to companies and individuals with the appropriate
resources.
Of all the numerous companies that were created to develop
the idea, Hyperloop One emerged as one of the most
prominent. A major investment in Hyperloop One came in 2017
from billionaire Richard Branson, and it was rebranded as
Virgin Hyperloop One.
Pune-Mumbai Hyperloop was envisioned in what way?
A Magnetic Maharashtra Convergence event was organized by
the state government of Maharashtra headed by Devendra
Fadnavis in February 2018. Virgin Hyperloop One chairman
Richard Branson attended and the Hyperloop company
announced that Branson will develop hyperloop transport in
Maharashtra between central Pune and the Navi Mumbai
airport.

A project for the development of the Pune Metropolitan Region

Development Authority (PMRDA) was assigned later. After the
announcement that the project would be implemented in two
phases, the PMRDA took responsibility for implementing the
project.
In the first phase, a test track will be constructed along an
11.4-kilometre corridor from Gahunje to Ozarde, and if that
turns out to be successful, a final 117.5-kilometre track will be
built in the second phase. The service is expected to connect
1.5 crore people from the two cities by allowing 15 crore
passenger trips per year, once it has been operational.
Furthermore, the service is expected to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by up to 86,000 tonnes over 30 years.
How’s the project between Pune and Mumbai coming
along?
The PMRDA had earlier this month submitted a proposal to the
Maharashtra Infrastructure Development Enabling Authority
(MIDEA) seeking to contract out a portion of Hyperloop’s
project work to private companies. According to the agency, it
intends to award a contract based on the Swiss Challenge
Method by announcing DP World FZE and Hyperloop
Technologies Inc as to the ‘original project proposers’ while
inviting other stakeholders to resubmit better proposals.
November 2018 marked the first anniversary of the hyperloop
project’s designation as a ‘Public Infrastructure Project’ by the
state’s Urban Development Department. Thus, the project is
eligible for the Swiss Challenge Method for awarding the work.
From January 2019 to February 2019, PMRDA gathered public
opinions and suggestions about the project.
The chief PMRDA official, however, stated on Saturday that
nothing had yet been finalized. A few months ago, we asked
Virgin Hyperloop One for clarifications regarding some issues
we were facing, but have not heard back from them. DP World
FZE and Hyperloop Technologies Inc were announced
conditionally as Original Project Proponents however the
announcement is still not final. We have yet to finalize all of the
processes we need to complete before an announcement can
be made about a DPR.”
Are there any other cities looking into Hyperloops?
Currently, nine companies are developing the technology, and
many of them have announced plans to build test tracks and
intercity transportation systems in various parts of the world.
Many companies are seeking to develop Hyperloop technology,
such as Virgin Hyperloop One, Hyperloop Transportation
Technologies, and TransPod. There is an Indian firm, called
DGWHyperloop India, which has entered the market as well.

Many companies have announced several routes over the last

few years, with the largest being the hyperloop link between
Pune and Mumbai, one connecting Los Angeles with San
Francisco, another connecting Abu Dhabi with Al Ain, and
another between Amravati and Vijayawada. A track or railroad
that connects some of Missouri’s largest cities such as St.
Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia as well as several Canadian
routes including Toronto-Montreal, Toronto-Windsor, and
Calgary-Edmonton.  
Despite this slow progress, all of these programs are still going
ahead.
What is the future of the Pune-Mumbai hyperloop?
During his appearance in Pune at the Transportation for
Tomorrow Conference, Pawar said, “There is no Hyperloop
project anywhere in the world.” The project should at the very
least be implemented somewhere for at least ten kilometres.
Our next move will be to consider implementing it in the state
when it is successful.”