Chicago. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT | HyperloopTT) signed official agreements with the Northeast Ohio Coordination Agency – an environmental transportation and planning agency – and the Illinois Department of Transportation to begin the feasibility study for the first interstate Hyperloop train in the United States. The supersonic train (a magnetic proofing capsule inside a low-pressure tube) will connect Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and Cleveland, the administrative capital of Ohio. It will travel over 500 km in 28 minutes and at the speed of sound at 1,200 km per hour. HyperloopTT, a Los Angeles based company that is building the ‘super train’ of the future has a piece of Italy inside it: the company was founded by the Italian Bibop G. Gresta and the German Dirk Ahlborn. The startup is 100% controlled by Jumpstarter, a subsidiary of Digital Magics: the most important “Made in Italy” digital startup incubator active throughout Italy founded by Bibop G. Gresta among others. (9Colonne)
