Researchers at the capital’s top university could be able to experiment with futuristic transport pods designed to fire passengers long distances at high speeds if planning permission for a test track is granted.
The University of Edinburgh’s HYPED Hyperloop team hopes to have the 100 metre rail at the King’s Buildings operational by June in a bid to cement the city as a hub for the technology.
The innovation, attributed to SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk, involves electrically-propelled pods travelling through a near-vacuum tube at speeds that could cut the journey time between Edinburgh and London to less than an hour.
