Dutch team builds Europe’s first hyperloop track
A Dutch company based at TU Delft has built a section of hyperloop track in the first stage of a bid to connect two cities in the next four years.
Hardt was formed by members of the TU Delft team that was victorious at Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition in January of this year. The BAM-built track, which is hosted on the university campus, is 30m long and 3.2m in diameter, and the first hyperloop track to be constructed in Europe. As well as TU Delft, Hardt is working alongside US company Hyperloop One and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
“In terms of transportation, a new age has begun with self-driving vehicles, platooning trucks, and drones,” said Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, Melanie Schultz van Haegen, who opened the facility.
“In the Netherlands, we want to be the European test bed for these innovative and sustainable forms of transport and so build up more knowledge about them. The hyperloop is fast, innovative, silent and sustainable and so very interesting for the transportation needs of the future.”
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