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Hyperloop One, the Glossary

Hyperloop One, known as Virgin Hyperloop until November 2022, was an American transportation technology company that worked to commercialize high-speed travel utilizing the Hyperloop concept which was a variant of the vacuum train.^[1]

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AECOM

AECOM (formerly AECOM Technology Corporation; stylised AΞCOM) is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm.

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Air bearing

Air bearings (also known as aerostatic or aerodynamic bearings) are bearings that use a thin film of pressurized gas to provide a low friction load-bearing interface between surfaces.

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Airlock

An airlock is a room or compartment which permits passage between environments of differing atmospheric pressure or composition, while minimizing the changing of pressure or composition between the differing environments.

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Arrivo

Arrivo Corporation was a startup company in Los Angeles, California, that developed maglev rail. Hyperloop One and Arrivo are Hyperloop and technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles.

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Arts and Industries Building

The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections.

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Arup Group

Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London that provides design, engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

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Bjarke Ingels Group

Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is a Copenhagen, New York City, London, Barcelona, Shenzhen, Oslo and Los Angeles-based group of architects and designers operating within the fields of architecture, product and landscape design, engineering and planning.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere

In Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide is a trace gas that plays an integral part in the greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, photosynthesis and oceanic carbon cycle.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming, as well as the county seat of Laramie County, with 65,132 residents, per the 2020 census.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Counterclaim

In a court of law, a party's claim is a counterclaim if one party asserts claims in response to the claims of another.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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David O. Sacks

David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) is a South African-American entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Deutsche Bahn

The Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government.

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DP World

DP World is an Emirati multinational logistics company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI. Hyperloop One and Elon Musk are Hyperloop.

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Emily White (businesswoman)

Emily C. White is an American technology executive and president of Anthos Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm focused on consumer-oriented companies.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Formation 8

Formation 8 was an American venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Joe Lonsdale, Jim Kim, and Brian Koo.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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GE Ventures

GE Ventures (founded in 2013) is the venture capital subsidiary of General Electric.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Hyperloop One and General Electric are transportation companies of the United States.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Government of Maharashtra

The Government of Maharashtra is the executive governing authority of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Government of Punjab, India

The Government of Punjab, also known as the State Government of Punjab or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Punjab and its 23 districts.

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Grant County, West Virginia

Grant County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.

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Helsinki–Tallinn Tunnel

The Helsinki–Tallinn Tunnel (also known as FinEst or Talsinki tunnel) is a proposed undersea tunnel that would span the Gulf of Finland and connect the Finnish and Estonian capitals by train.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Hyperloop

Hyperloop is a proposed high-speed transportation system for both passengers and freight.

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Hyperloop pod competition

The Hyperloop Pod Competition was an annual competition sponsored by SpaceX from 2015 to 2019 in which a number of student and non-student teams participated to design—and for some teams, build—a subscale prototype transport vehicle in order to demonstrate technical feasibility of various aspects of the Hyperloop concept. Hyperloop One and Hyperloop pod competition are Hyperloop.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.

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Iranian Americans

Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are citizens or nationals of the United States who are of Iranian ancestry.

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Jim Justice

James Conley Justice II (born April 27, 1951) is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 36th governor of West Virginia since 2017.

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Jim Messina (political staffer)

Jim Messina (born October 29, 1969) is an American political adviser who was the White House deputy chief of staff for operations under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011 and served as the campaign manager for Obama's successful 2012 re-election campaign.

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K. Vijayraghavan

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Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is an American venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, focused on early-stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, financial services, agriculture, healthcare and clean technology sectors.

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Laredo, Texas

Laredo is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and seat of Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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Linear motor

A linear motor is an electric motor that has had its stator and rotor "unrolled", thus, instead of producing a torque (rotation), it produces a linear force along its length.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Marshall University

Marshall University is a public research university in Huntington, West Virginia.

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Memorandum of understanding

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Missouri Hyperloop

The Missouri Hyperloop is a proposed high-speed transportation route in the U.S. state of Missouri. Hyperloop One and Missouri Hyperloop are Hyperloop.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Mount Storm, West Virginia

Mount Storm is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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North Las Vegas, Nevada

North Las Vegas is a suburban city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, in the Las Vegas Valley.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Ottawa

Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.

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Peter Diamandis

Peter H. Diamandis (born May 20, 1961) is an American marketer, engineer, physician, and entrepreneur.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

The Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) is the chief advisor to the Government of India on matters related to scientific policy.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.

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The Roads and Transport Authority (هيئة الطرق والمواصلات), commonly known as RTA, is the major independent government roads & transportation authority in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts is a part of Washington University in St. Louis.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight

The Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight (WARR) (Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Raketentechnik und Raumfahrt) is a scientific workgroup situated at Technical University of Munich, composed mainly of its students.

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Sherpa Capital

Sherpa Capital is an American venture capital firm established in March 2013 by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford. Hyperloop One and Sherpa Capital are Hyperloop.

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Shervin Pishevar

Shervin Kordary Pishevar (شروین پیشه ور; born March 24, 1974) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, super angel investor, and philanthropist.

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SNCF

The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (abbreviated as SNCF; "National Company of the French Railways") is France's national state-owned railway company.

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Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem (Arabic: ‏ ‏سلطان أحمد بن سليم, born 1955) is an Emirati businessman.

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SYSTRA

SYSTRA is a multinational engineering and consulting group in the mobility sector, whose fields of activity include rail and public transport.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Transportation engineering

Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods transport.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop_One

Also known as @HyperloopOne, Brogan Bambrogan, Hyperloop Technolgies, Hyperloop Technologies, Virgin Hyperloop, Virgin Hyperloop One, XP-1.

, Marshall University, Memorandum of understanding, Mexico City, Miami, Missouri Hyperloop, Montreal, Mount Storm, West Virginia, Mumbai, North Las Vegas, Nevada, Ohio, Orlando, Florida, Ottawa, Peter Diamandis, Pittsburgh, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Privately held company, Public transport, Pueblo, Colorado, Pune, Richard Branson, Roads and Transport Authority (Dubai), Robert H. Goddard, Russia, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, San Francisco, Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight, Sherpa Capital, Shervin Pishevar, SNCF, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, SYSTRA, The Times of India, Toronto, Transportation engineering, Tucker County, West Virginia, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vactrain, Virgin Group, Washington University in St. Louis, West Virginia, West Virginia Community and Technical College System, West Virginia University, Ziyavudin Magomedov.

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American companies disestablished in 2023

Hyperloop

Transport companies disestablished in 2023

Transport companies established in 2014

Transportation companies based in California

Transportation companies of the United States

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