Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of a designed underground station infrastructure for vacuum tube high-speed trains for the planned mega transport hub in Poland. The potential of integrating the infrastructure of the station building with sealed low-pressure tubes system is analyzed. The Solidarity Transport Hub Poland is a planned mega hub to be located in Baranów Municipality, Poland, which is comprised of an airport, an airport city, a road, and railway infrastructure. It is to be integrated with the first route of vactrains in Poland. The aim of this paper is to design a hyperloop station building adequate for the advanced technology of low-pressure high-speed trains. Designing a hyperloop station is not trivial, due to technological aspects which have not been hitherto present in airport or railway planning and design, such as low-pressure zones or airlocks which determine possible passenger paths and evacuation roads. Both the mega airport and Polish hyperloop are in the planning stage, therefore, in this paper, available models and designs of the hyperloop station building and infrastructure are used in order to formulate recommendations for further development and identify critical issues related to the safety and reduction of passenger transit time. The main contribution of this paper is a model of the hyperloop station building which respects the principles of spatial planning and safety standards.
Highlights
This paper studies a concept of a hyperloop station in terms of effective station building and facilities with low-pressure tubes where high-speed trains go
This paper studies the planned mega transport hub, the Solidarity Transport Hub Poland, as a potential location of a hyperloop station
The analysis of the main assumptions of the Solidarity TransportHub Poland (STH) project proves that this location is in line with worldwide trends in hyperloop route planning as well as with the Polish national strategy for advanced transportation systems
Summary
This paper studies a concept of a hyperloop station in terms of effective station building and facilities with low-pressure tubes where high-speed trains go. The revolutionary feature of the hyperloop technology is the ultra-high speed of travel through the tube, thanks to the reduced air resistance; low-pressure tubes are used for moving passengers and goods placed safely in the pods or capsules. Automation is beneficial for safety management, since it excludes the possibility of human errors [14], it makes the system complex, what causes the increase of memory and computation power needs [17,18] This fifth mode of transportation can be a game changer in cargo delivery (freight hyperloop), as it may enable logistics companies to build a competitive advantage, due to the revolution in handling the supply chain where the delivery of goods will be performed at a speed that is characteristic of air transport and at costs that are comparable to road transport [19,20,21,22,23].
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