Foster + Partners envisions a network for cargo There are many concerns about using hyperloop technology to move people?securing the politically fraught right-of-ways, successfully depressurizing the tubes over long distances, or addressing the fact that passengers moving at 700 mph will likely get sick. However, if cities are only using the hyperloop to move cargo, many of those concerns evaporate.
That?s why using this potentially game-changing method of moving freight is such a big idea?and one that has now been visualized by Foster + Partners for Virgin Hyperloop One and DP World, which operates 78 major ports and terminals all over the world.

?As hyperloop looks to reinvent urban transport and logistics, the city of the future is closer than we think,? Norman Foster told Dezeen. ?It is important we develop an integrated sustainable vision of infrastructure that will enable us to evolve and adapt our existing cities, and design new ones that will be in harmony with nature and our precious planet.? The partnership makes sense due to Foster?s relationship with Virgin Galactic designing its Spaceport America (which is complete, yet mostly just a tourist attraction). Last year, Virgin bought a stake in Hyperloop One, one of several companies developing the technology.

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Foster?s concept includes adding new hyperloop infrastructure to every major port, which would replace current trucking and rail connections to quickly ...