Dubai: hyperloop, high-speed mass transportation system for passengers and delivery, is likely to be launched first in India or Saudi Arabia before in the UAE, said CEO of Emirati Multinational Logistics Company, DP World, Sultan Ahmed son of Sulayem Sunday.
Speaking in the side of the Dubai Expo 2020, an six-month event that began on October 1, Sulayem said the high-speed transportation system would come true in many parts of the world in the end of this decade.
“I will see it in India at first, or in Saudi Arabia at this time.
Our hope is that when we reach the economy scale and you have a long and popular route, maybe for the speed of the plane that you will pay with the price of a truck,” said Sulayem when Asked about the time scale for virgin hyperloop.
The system is currently being developed by several companies, including Virgin Hyperloop, where Dubai-based port operators dp the world holds majority shares.
Hyperloop is described as a closed tube or a tube system with low air pressure where POD can travel substantially freely from air or friction resistance.
The company tested human journey at Hyperloop Pod for the first time in November last year.
“Not decades, many years,” said Sulayem to CNN in an interview on the Expo 2020 website, where the company showed off a full-scale pod hyperloop.
The previous world said that hyperloop could shrink the inventory time scale dramatically, reducing finished dramatically, reduced inventory of goods and cutting the necessary warehouse space and costs 25 percent.
In February 2018, Chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, Richard Branson announced the hyperloop system plan between Pune and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra.
The plan was jammed because of the Coronavirus outbreak.