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Overview Founded in 2015, TransPod is designing the world’s leading hyperloop system to make ultra-high-speed
ground transportation a reality. TransPod’s system will move people faster, with dramatic reductions in
fossil fuel usage. Based on aerospace engineering innovations, TransPod’s 1000km/h passenger vehicle
system will bring about a new, convenient, reliable mode of transportation, to virtually shrink distances and
connect people, cities, and businesses.
Target markets
The TransPod hyperloop will serve both the passenger and cargo transportation markets, with a focus on
countries challenged by aging infrastructure, high-density populations, and a need for transportation
innovation.
Global expertise
TransPod Inc. has offices in Canada, France, and Italy, and works with a global partner network of industrial
leaders in the aeronautics, space, rail, and infrastructure industries. Collaborating with this expertise,
TransPod is re-inventing tube transportation from the ground up.
Key differentiators
TransPod takes a physics-first and engineering-first approach to our design. We’re not using pre-existing
concepts of “hyperloop”, and we’re not crowdsourcing or harvesting ideas and trying to make them fit with
each other. We’re developing every aspect of a new tube-transportation system, from design to systems
engineering, from the ground up, all in-house and with our partners. With a focus on first-in-the-world
designs and technological breakthroughs, all aspects of the vehicle, infrastructure, and passenger
experience are designed to work together seamlessly, with high reliability, safety, and operational
robustness.
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Industrial partners
REC is a French architecture firm bringing technical, creative and managerial expertise to develop global infrastructure projects. It co-designs the infrastructure, stations, and pod interiors with TransPod.
CanmetMATERIALS is the largest research centre in Canada for material science. It provides help on pod materials, infrastructure, and provides high-performance computing capabilities.
IKOS is a leading railway consulting firm with offices in France and Canada. IKOS not only co-develops the on-board power structure but also provides consulting and support.
Liebherr-Aerospace is one of the world’s leading system suppliers for the aerospace industry with 57 years of experience. It co-develops the air cabin and the liquid-cooling systems with TransPod.
MERMEC designs and develops vehicles and measuring systems for railway infrastructure. The company co-develops the signaling and communication systems with TransPod.
Blackshape Aircrafts develops and produces high-performance carbon fibre aircraft, for civil aviation and military. Blackshape is working with TransPod on the structure and the shell of the pods.
SITAEL is the largest privately-owned space company in Italy. SITAEL offers expertise on aerospace and vacuum environment, and provides large vacuum testing equipment.
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Funding
In November 2016, TransPod announced the closing of a seed round for $15 million USD from Angelo
Investments. We’re continuing to invest in research, product development, and global growth. We’ve
secured patents for our innovative designs, and are expanding our growing network of global industry
partners. Over the next few years, we’ll continue working with governments, partners, and investors to bring
the TransPod system to life.
Technology
TransPod’s new research and technologies are combined with concepts and designs from the aerospace
industry. Many subsystems, such as the vehicle structure, control systems, and vehicle dynamics, are very
similar to what we can find on an aircraft. Railway technologies are also being adapted, including
communication, signaling, and energy management. Much of the work we’re doing integrates these existing
technologies with our own proprietary designs to create this new high-speed transportation system.
Executive leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Sebastien founded TransPod in 2015 and brings more than
13 years of experience leading engineers at global
transportation manufacturers, including Bombardier, Safran
S.A., and Airbus Group. He holds a master’s degree in
aerospace engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO and Aix
Marseille University in France.
Co-founder & CTO
Ryan Janzen is a scientist and entrepreneur, featured on the
Discovery Channel, Wired magazine, and Through the
Wormhole. Janzen's innovations have created entirely new
fields of research, including veillance flux, extramissive
optics, swarm modulation, and the world's first aircraft PLC
research. His work has led to advances in acoustics,
aerospace electronics, mathematics, and vehicle propulsion.
Janzen is co-founder and CTO of TransPod, designing a next
generation of ultra-high-speed aerospace vehicles. Janzen is
the chief architect of the multi-billion-dollar future system:
transportation infrastructure, operations, aerodynamics,
propulsion, avionics, and the passenger experience.
Sébastien Gendron
Ryan Janzen
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The TransPod network – What is it?
TransPod is designing a new 5th mode of transportation, beyond ships, trains,
automobiles, and planes.
As envisioned by aerospace pioneer Robert Goddard, as well as SpaceX’s Elon Musk who
introduced the term “hyperloop”, TransPod is developing a cutting-edge novel design for a next-
generation transportation system to reach velocities faster than airline travel. This ground-based
mass transportation system is based on low-pressure tubes carrying TransPod vehicles for
reduced air resistance, and less friction. TransPod’s system is designed to give passengers and
goods a low-priced, frequent departure transportation service without the need for jet fuel, at
speeds exceeding 1000km/h.
Powered by environmentally sustainable solar/electric energy in a system that is unaffected by
weather conditions, TransPod’s system enables passenger and cargo travel that is faster than
airline travel, creating an attractive choice for consumers, a high-potential investment opportunity
for infrastructure investors, and a reliable mass transportation system.
Why do we need it?
Current modes of transport --- such as cars, trucks, trains and aircraft --- are slow, inefficient,
congested, fossil-fuel dependent, polluting, and vulnerable to weather conditions. TransPod’s
system provides an attractive choice for consumers in terms of speed, convenience, and price
(compared to airline tickets and high-speed rail tickets). It also achieves significant government
policy objectives: reducing highway congestion and maintenance, reducing carbon emissions,
being fully electric and fossil-fuel free, and increasing economic activity through rapid intercity
commerce.
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Benefits
Speed
The TransPod vehicle is designed for speeds exceeding 1000 km/h, with a maximum speed of
1200 km/h. Faster than a jet, and many times faster than high-speed rail (150-350 km/h), the
experience of sitting on the TransPod vehicle will feel like accelerating smoothly on a jet runway,
and then coasting at full speed inside the tube guideway. TransPod’s advanced control systems
allow a smooth ride, where passengers can avoid the turbulence and storms experienced on jet
airlines, since the tube environment provides shelter from outside weather. Instead of driving in a
car for six hours between cities more than 500 km apart (such as Toronto to Montreal), a
TransPod trip arrives in as little as 45 minutes, and less time for cities that are closer together.
Convenient passenger transportation
Airline passengers already suffer while paying high ticket prices. Rather than planning a trip week
in advance, being bumped from flights, experiencing turbulence, storms, flight cancellations,
delays, diversions, and lost luggage, TransPod’s system offers a European-style high-frequency
train experience, where passengers can simply show up at a station whenever it’s convenient,
buy a ticket, and wait a few minutes for the next TransPod vehicle to depart.
High-speed delivery of goods
E-commerce, businesses, and just-in-time industrial processes will benefit, from sameday
deliveries for industrial/commercial shipping, and urgent business parcel delivery (in certain
cases, same-hour). Besides manufacturing and business shippers, another key market is
agricultural and food product industries -- reducing spoilage caused by low-speed trucking.
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Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
TransPod’s fully-electric system is designed to be linked to the regional electrical grid. Rather
than burning fossil fuels on the vehicles, power from substations is delivered to the TransPod
vehicles inside the tube infrastructure. This takes advantage of high efficiency power plants (and
solar/wind as locally generated), rather than individual inefficient engines as in cars and airplanes.
Fossil-fuel free
TransPod’s system eliminates fuel waste of an airline jet ascending to altitude. Most of a jet’s fuel
is burned at the start of a flight; hence the high airline ticket prices. TransPod vehicles will run
nearly horizontally, thus avoiding this major inefficiency and operating cost of jets.
Mass transportation
TransPod will provide mass transportation to reduce highway congestion between major cities,
and to reduce economic losses due to traffic delays and the time wasted driving slowly at only
100 km/h.
Weather factors
Inside the protected tube environment, TransPod vehicles are unaffected by weather
conditions such as rain, snow, fog, turbulence, sand, and storms.
Infrastructure TransPod à deux tubes
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Additional Details
Capacity
TransPod designs for capacity and passenger demand on each transportation corridor. For
example, the initial system design for the Toronto - Montreal corridor has a capacity of 12 million
passengers per year, and is expandable to higher volumes. Freight vehicles can travel on the
same line as passenger vehicles, and this is adjusted according to the requirements of each line
operator. TransPod’s system is designed to be customizable (specific line configuration,
throughput, turnaround requirements, and dwell times), and extendable, by twinning the
infrastructure for more capacity, and purchasing different vehicle models as freight and passenger
demand increase.
Ticket prices
Due to TransPod’s efficient technology and significantly lower cost from MagLev systems, the
tickets are able to be much lower and more accessible to all users. Ticket prices will depend on
the route, but TransPod’s current projections are priced at a lower rate than air travel and freight,
while offering faster delivery times and environmental sustainability.
Vue frontale d’un véhicule TransPod
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