Route high-speed Hyperloop could link Moscow and Sochi. Investors say that the cost of the project will be cheaper than the construction of the railway Adler — Krasnaya Polyana
The Summa group is ready to implement the project bullet train Hyperloop to transport passengers from Moscow to Sochi and St. Petersburg. This was stated by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the "Amount" Ziyavudin Magomedov, reports TASS.
According to the businessman, the Summa group is interested in realization of both freight and passenger transport using trains Hyperloop in Russia.
"From the point of view of the laws of physics from the planes is no different. I think a promising route Moscow — Saint Petersburg and Moscow — Sochi", — Magomedov told reporters at the Eastern economic forum.
Freight traffic is scheduled to begin in 2021-2023. "Passenger projects on time will be a little delayed, it is rather 2024-2026 years," — said Magomedov.
The Hyperloop coming to Russia
Hyperloop — a project on high speed train that will travel in the vacuum tube at a speed of from 480 to 1220 km/h due to the absence of rails friction and air resistance. Expected distance between San Francisco and Los Angeles (about 600 km) this composition will be overcome in 30 minutes.
The project was developed in 2013 by the founder of Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity Elon Musk, whose fortune Forbes estimates at U.S. $10.7 billion In may 2016. the company Hyperloop Technologies has conducted the first successful test of the train in Nevada. The prototype managed over 1.1 seconds to reach a speed of 187 km/h.
One of the investors Hyperloop is a Russian VC Fund Caspian Partners (CVC) co-owner of Summa group Ziyavudin Magomedov.
According to Magomedov, the ability to move loads in the vacuum tube with a speed of 1000 km/h will change the market and will allow Russia to become a transit corridor between Asia and Europe. "This story will change the role and participation of seaports in cargo transportation. And I will kill cargo and air freight at least, " he told Forbes.
Hyperloop test site near Los Angeles with a length of 6 km must be constructed by 2017. "The project includes $12 million per kilometer. It is much cheaper railway Adler — Krasnaya Polyana", — said Magomedov.
In June of 2016. at the St. Petersburg international economic forum the Minister of transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov announced that the transport Ministry will create with the representatives of the Hyperloop Technologies working group for the construction of a highway in the Amur region for the transport of goods.
The costs of the Amur Hyperloop could reach $318-425 million According to Sokolov, investors consider the construction of a 70-km highway is 30% cheaper than construction of a similar railway line in 30 to 40 billion rubles.
The Ministry hopes that the project will be implemented with government support and become part of the transport corridor "Primorye-2", combining the Chinese province of Jilin to the port of Slavyanka in the South of Primorsky Krai. Traffic volume is expected to reach 10 million tons of cargo per year.
"Our long-term goal in Russia is the implementation of the new silk road project — highway truck, enabling you to move goods from China to Europe during the day," said the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company-operator of the Hyperloop project One shervin Pishevar.
In addition, high-speed vacuum train project Elon musk in the future can link Moscow airports. A Memorandum on cooperation in the framework of SPIEF-2016 was signed by Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Ziyavudin Magomedov is the founder and Hyperloop Technologies shervin Pishevar.
Support for the Hyperloop project in Russia has already promised President Vladimir Putin.
High-speed trains do not hurry in Sochi
To build a high-speed railway between Moscow and Adler was planned in preparation for the XXII Olympic winter games in Sochi.
In may of 2011. Vladimir Putin promised that the JSC "Russian Railways" (RZD) implements this project in 2014. "As a result of a road from Moscow to Adler will take about 14 hours. Now it takes more days," he said.
In addition, the Olympics had to be extended, the throughput of other Railways on the South of the country, including railroad tracks are laid in areas of Krasnodar — Adler and Volgograd — Tikhoretsk, a total of more than 1 thousand km of new lines.
Referred to the construction of high-speed railway line in Sochi in connection with preparation for the world football Championship 2018. Deputy head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak estimated the construction of the four special branches (Moscow-Sochi, Moscow-Petersburg, Moscow-Ekaterinburg, Moscow-Samara) at 5.5 trillion rubles.
As a result, the railway project has not been implemented for the 2014 Olympics, will not appear high-speed railway route from the capital to Adler and to the 2018 world Cup.