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The VFM of hyperloop is low as it involves high costs to move relatively few people. With few exceptions maglev and hover train and the like have always run into this obstacle. There is a real problem of increasing capacity in public transport systems within constraints, but this is not the solution. Concorde filled a niche but the 747 liberated air travel. This is the same. A glamorous solution that benefits the few, but doesnβt fill the needs of the many.
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 upon reading the article it looks to me like someone (this van de Pas guy?) convinced her that this is a feasible (and relatively quickly deployable) replacement for private jets that would allow their users to switch w/out a loss of convenience. not sure that would actually work, and almost certainly would siphon off funds for hsr (this is purely conjecture and all the caveats)  @serendip1959 @jmaris But if you intend to use Hyperloop to reduce plane journeys, then you're comparing VFM of hyperloop with VFM of a plane not trains. |
@serendip1959 You're preaching to the choir π