• A vactrain (or vacuum tube train) is a proposed design for very-high-speed rail transportation. It is a maglev (magnetic levitation) line using partly...
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  • 1960s proposal has a 3,100 miles (5,000 km)-long near-vacuum tube with vactrains, a theoretical type of maglev train, which could travel at speeds up to...
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    Longest train services Modelling Museums Platform screen doors Railway speed record Suicide Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) Vactrain Transport portal v t e...
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    United States Department of Commerce conducted feasibility studies on a vactrain system powered by ambient atmospheric pressure and "gravitational pendulum...
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    The hyperloop, in the form proposed by Musk, differs from traditional vactrains by relying on residual air pressure inside the tube to provide lift from...
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    2016 and became Tesla Energy. In 2013, he proposed a hyperloop high-speed vactrain transportation system. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial...
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    high-speed maglev system. Instead, overcoming drag takes the most energy. Vactrain technology has been proposed as a means to overcome this limitation. Despite...
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  • Bounce tube pneumatic travel (Proposed by Robert A. Heinlein in 1956) Vactrain also known as ET3 BiModal Glideway (Dual Mode Transportation System) travel...
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    Powered exoskeleton Rapid transit Road Space Supersonic Uncrewed vehicle Vactrain Topics Accessibility Bicycle transportation planning and engineering Cyclability...
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  • returns to Toronto, seeking investors for his newest invention, a high-speed vactrain. When one of Pendrick's employees is killed, Murdoch suspects that he may...
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    Longest train services Modelling Museums Platform screen doors Railway speed record Suicide Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) Vactrain Transport portal v t e...
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  • Powered exoskeleton Rapid transit Road Space Supersonic Uncrewed vehicle Vactrain Topics Accessibility Bicycle transportation planning and engineering Cyclability...
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    Longest train services Modelling Museums Platform screen doors Railway speed record Suicide Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) Vactrain Transport portal v t e...
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    Powered exoskeleton Rapid transit Road Space Supersonic Uncrewed vehicle Vactrain Topics Accessibility Bicycle transportation planning and engineering Cyclability...
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    Longest train services Modelling Museums Platform screen doors Railway speed record Suicide Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) Vactrain Transport portal v t e...
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    from 1975 to 1977 and 2001 to 2006. Robert M. Salter: advocate of the vactrain maglev train concept Paul Samuelson: economist, Nobel Prize in Economics...
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  • subshuttles utilize a magnetic levitation rail system, and operate inside vactrain tunnels and travel at hundreds of miles per hour. The tunnel network is...
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    Longest train services Modelling Museums Platform screen doors Railway speed record Suicide Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) Vactrain Transport portal v t e...
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  • proposed Swiss transportation system based on vacuum-train (also known as vactrain) technology. It was invented by Swiss engineer Rodolphe Nieth in 1974 and...
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    Part of rail transport Technologies Conventional Hovertrain Hyperloop/Vactrain Maglev High-speed trains High-speed railway line List of high-speed railway...
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    Part of rail transport Technologies Conventional Hovertrain Hyperloop/Vactrain Maglev High-speed trains High-speed railway line List of high-speed railway...
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  • designed to travel through a tube guideway which is similar to a hyperloop or vactrain system, with variations based on magnetic levitation rather than air bearings...
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    walkway Personal transporter Robotaxi Shweeb Slope car Trackless train Vactrain Locations Airport Bus bulb Bus garage Bus lane Bus stand Bus station Bus...
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  • a satellite to collect information. During the 1970s, he advocated the vactrain high-speed transit concept. He also published papers on energy storage...
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    Part of rail transport Technologies Conventional Hovertrain Hyperloop/Vactrain Maglev High-speed trains High-speed railway line List of high-speed railway...
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    Longest train services Modelling Museums Platform screen doors Railway speed record Suicide Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) Vactrain Transport portal v t e...
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  • Part of rail transport Technologies Conventional Hovertrain Hyperloop/Vactrain Maglev High-speed trains High-speed railway line List of high-speed railway...
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    fusion power devices, electric motors (e.g. for vehicle propulsion, as in vactrains or maglev trains), magnetic levitation devices, fault current limiters...
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    Part of rail transport Technologies Conventional Hovertrain Hyperloop/Vactrain Maglev High-speed trains High-speed railway line List of high-speed railway...
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