North Texas planners are getting serious about deploying a technology known as Hyperloopthat promises to whisk riders from Dallas to Fort Worth in only six minutes — traveling in a giant tube in a futuristic system that, if successful, could redefine intercity transportation. But those same Metroplex planners also are pursuing plans for building high-speed rail plans (similar to systems used in Europe and Asia) in the same corridors connecting Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas

The feasibility and environmental study for the high-speed route from Columbus, Ohio, to Chicago is another step toward making the interstate route a reality. (TNS) — Feasibility and environmental impact studies will be done on Virgin Hyperloop One's proposed route connecting Columbus, Chicago and Pittsburgh. The federally required environmental impact study is to be finished by July 2019. Engineering firm WSP USA will collect data while reviewing existing conditions along th

Autonomous 16-passenger vehicles would zip back and forth at speeds exceeding 100 mph in tunnels between the Loop and O'Hare International Airport under a high-speed transit proposal being negotiated between Mayor Rahm Emanuel's City Hall and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's The Boring Co., city and company officials have confirmed. Emanuel's administration has selected Musk's company from four competing bids to provide high-speed transportation between downtown and

One of the studies that the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission announced this week will look at the environmental impact of a proposed hyperloop route through Columbus. "We're very confident that what the (environmental) study will wind up showing is the environmental impacts of hyperloop will be much less than other modes of transportation, like rail," said Hyperloop One's Dan Katz, head of North American projects. Of course, it's his job to say that, but here are his rea