Tube-Based Transportation Technology

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• - Includes a description and technical papers covering a linear synchronous motor based capsule pipeline.
  
• - Describes a Russian proposal for a tube transit system.
  
• - A scoping paper by Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Covers linear electric propulsion, drag and stability.
  
• - Contains news, history, conferences, and research groups.
  
• - Contains a definition, history, views, and sources. Covers aspects of tube transportation, pneumatic tube systems, telegram conveying, and pneumatic despatch.
  
• - A proposal for a passenger magnetic levitation based railway. Includes analysis of design requirements, network components, and implementation.
  
• - Describes suspended passenger pneumatic capsule pipeline proposal, with diagrams.
  
• - Contains an idea for a pneumatic tube based personal transport system.
  
• - Society for those interested in capsule, pneumatic, and slurry pipelines. Contains a member directory, publications, and news.
  
• - A proposal for a system to move pallet-load general freight at high speed between cities. Includes a summary, history, outline design, and consideration of economics, energy, safety, and maintenance.
  
• - A review of the subject by Lawrence Vance and Milton K. Mills, United States Federal Highway Administration.
  
• - An introduction to many of the large diameter schemes under development.
  
• - Attempts to answer the question, what became of a 1960s scheme to transport solid goods by pipeline, and why?
  
• - Describes synchronous linear motor based system for moving lightweight freight, with movie of prototype in operation.
  
• - Based at University of Missouri-Columbia. Includes an introduction to the subject, project history, technology and test program information, and FAQs.
  
• - A company seeking to commercialize Coal Log Pipeline technology. Contains a business plan and history, and technical background to capsule pipelines, including those for biomass and mine waste.
  
• - Contains call for papers and background.
  
• - ISUFT2002, a conference hosted by Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Contains an introduction, and conference and exhibition details.
  
• - Describes a system for conveyance of goods through pipelines in Bochum, Germany. Includes an introduction, background, and news.
  
• - Describes feasibility study by Texas Transportation Institute, for subterranean freight pipeline system using pallet carrying vehicles.
  
• - Contains description of Pneumatic Capsule Pipelines, simulation, and cost comparison.
  
• - Describes system using magnetically levitated freight capsules which operate in underground tunnels, with company information.
  
• - Describes ET3, a project developing an evacuated tube system. Includes a summary of the technology and application, list of benefits, FAQ, and patent and licensing information.