Pittsburgh is over seven hours by car away from Chicago (467 miles). That's an all-day trip, which will cost you $26 - $51 just in gasoline. If you need to make that trip, would you pay about $93 . . to be there in 75 minutes?
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) sponsored a study to answer questions like that, to find out if it would be worthwhile to build a hyperloop system to connect these cities.
The study found that over 30 years a hyperloop route would result in the following:
- 1.9 billion autos shifted to hyperloop passengers
- 2.4 million tons of reduced CO2 emissions (over $126 million in emissions savings)
- 450 million commercial truck vehicle hours traveled will be eliminated
- $300 billion in overall economic benefits (nearly $19 billion of that in direct transportation benefits
The conclusion of this study? A hyperloop route between these cities will be successful. Ohio officials want to see it happen. They're a little closer to their vision now.
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