Florida Route Among 'Winners' in Hyperloop Rapid Transit Competition
With a proposed route from Miami to Orlando, Florida was among 10 winners in a global competition by a California startup aiming to bring technology pioneer Elon Musk’s Hyperloop rapid-transit concept to life, per Geek Wire.
Alice Bravo, director of the Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works, heads the team for the Miami-Orlando Hyperloop project in Florida. Other winners included proposed routes from Chicago to Pittsburgh, Cheyenne to Denver, and Dallas to Houston. Teams from Canada and Mexico, and Britain and India were also selected. The 10 Global Challenge winners will be added to Hyperloop One’s list of potential sites.

Hyperloop One is working with partners in Dubai, Russia, Finland, and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on projects that could result in near-supersonic, tube-based transit lines inspired by Musk’s four-year-old concept. The company already has built a prototype track in the Nevada desert.
“The winning teams will get our support and resources to move their projects toward commercial readiness,” Hyperloop One CEO Rob Lloyd said in a blog post about the contest results.
Hyperloop One is just one effort to commercialize tube transit. Another initiative involves Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which is working with partners in countries such as France, India, and South Korea to advance Hyperloop projects. Musk, who has a tunneling startup company, has been discussing building transit tunnels with White House officials. Musk’s Hyperloop list includes Los Angeles and an L.A.-to-San Francisco route, a Texas route, and a line that includes in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.