NEW MOBILITY
On 22 January 2019 at 6.30 p.m., SADE made a leap into the future, signing a partnership agreement alongside EDF and Arcelor Mittal with Canadian start-up TransPod.
Partnering on a Hyperloop project
TransPod’s aim is to manufacture and sell a system to transport passengers or freight between major cities by moving levitating capsules along a low-pressure tube (to reduce aerodynamic friction) at speeds comparable to air travel.
The TransPod project
TransPod’s aim is to manufacture and sell a system to transport passengers or freight between major cities by moving levitating capsules along a low-pressure tube (to reduce aerodynamic friction) at speeds comparable to air travel.
On 22 January 2019 at 6.30 p.m., SADE made a leap into the future, signing a partnership agreement alongside EDF and Arcelor Mittal with Canadian start-up TransPod, creators of one of the most advanced hyperloop systems in the world. The project is to design a new test track in Droux (Limoges).
SADE is facing technical challenges to design and build the tubes and its foundation piles: it must take account of complex phenomena due to the low pressure in the tube, generation of one-off live loads by the movement of the capsule, and high braking forces that need to be absorbed by the foundations.
Due to the public health situation, the Droux project’s initial milestones have been postponed and the scheduled deadlines are now as follows: start of the roads & utilities worksite in March-April 2021, construction of the track from May-June and finalisation of the worksite by the end of the year.
