Traveling quickly and comfortably seems like a dream. However, in China they already prepare a flying train capable of traveling thousands of kilometers in an hour, so it is very similar to the famous Hyperloop of Elon Musk.
A state agency China has announced that it will begin research to create the world's fastest train, even faster than commercial aircraft. This is a really interesting project that could change forever the way we mobilize.
In China, they will create the world's fastest train
The future of passenger transport is not on the planes, but rather a faster, more comfortable and, above all, ecological alternative, such as Elon Musk's famous Hyperloop, which has so far shown discrete results.
In China they take things very seriously, and the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) announced that they are working in the early stages of what will be a flying train capable of reaching speeds of up to 4000 km / h.
The train named T Flight will be moved thanks to a magnetic lift system. The plans are quite ambitious, as they not only want one city, but also countries and even continents. Also, it will be ecological and those who are in charge of the project promise to have high levels of security, with tickets available to ordinary people.
The T Flight will be able to capture solar energy thanks to panels located on the roof of the tubes where the train moves, in addition to having an autonomous driving system through the use of artificial intelligence.
The trains would be composed of several capsules, each for 16 passengers, in addition to the luggage. In the trips could be capsules united to each other or could also be sent individually according to the needs of the moment, with 3 minutes of difference between one and another.
The project is currently in the design phase, but it is expected that by 2020 it will start building a first version of T Flight, which would link cities with medium distances, reaching speeds of between 595 and 997 km / h and transporting more than 8 million passengers per year.
As early as 2027, a faster T Flight would be in operation, capable of crossing China to 1930 km / h, in what would be the second phase, and then to create networks that travel countries and continents in few hours and record speeds of up to 4000 km / h.
The CASIC has a large number of resources to make this supersonic flying train a reality and hopes to work in cooperation with companies from several countries to export its model globally.
China could get the first supersonic train capable of surpassing the speed of sound before Elon Musk can implement its Hyperloop in the United States. In this way, the Asian country would consolidate itself as a global leader in the fast and efficient transportation of passengers.