Diesel Train
Trip duration
6h
Top speed
150km/h
Ticket price
$115*
Power source
Diesel
Dirty and slow: this mode of transport is not sustainable for modern society.
1000km/h+. Fossil Fuel Free.
The TransPod vehicle is built like an airline jet fuselage, containing rows of seats inside. Passengers board from platforms at each station. Powered by electrically-driven magnetic propulsion, the vehicle departs, gently accelerates to full speed inside the TransPod tube infrastructure, and decelerates on approach to the final destination station.
The TransPod tube system will carry passenger and cargo vehicles on the same route at the same time.
Faster than airline travel, the TransPod tube system is a fully-electric mass transportation system, to reduce carbon emissions, and provide an alternative to highway congestion.
TransPod differentiates itself from other hyperloop systems by its low infrastructure and maintenance costs.
As infrastructure cost is a key decision factor in transport, the unique IP developed by TransPod brings the infrastructure cost down to the same as current high-speed transportation systems. Costs savings are achievable through advanced vehicle technology paired with an optimized tube infrastructure system.
Access cost study6h
150km/h
$115*
Diesel
Dirty and slow: this mode of transport is not sustainable for modern society.
1h 12m
840km/h
$280*
Jet fuel
Aircraft jet fuel emissions are a leading contributor to global warming.
45m
1200km/h
$80
Electricity
TransPod's hyperloop eliminates the fossil fuel requirements and carbon emissions of jet travel.
*Prices are based on a same-day booking one way trip between Toronto and Montreal
TransPod has employed a “physics-first” and "engineering-first” strategy.
Early on, TransPod decided to throw out all assumptions inherent in the conceptual proposals for “hyperloop” advertised in the popular media, and instead, returned to fundamental physics and engineering, aerodynamics, electromagnetics, theory and computation. The result is a next-generation integrated design of an optimised vehicle and matching infrastructure, holistically re-designed from the ground up.
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