It's a good start. Hardt Hyperloop gets one step closer to a viable, credible project.

it's just another snake oil marketing if you ask me.

Initiaters are not some smartass suits from a washing-powder marketing school but graduates of the world-renowned Delft Technical University.

Moreover, they have actually come up with some technical innovations regarding track changes and tried them in a prototype.

All said, it is very likely that this project is going to fail because it seems very much underfunded.

Ultra-liberal Dutch government will not fund any commercial project. Thinking of Europe, Germany will not fund any such project with no industrial monopoly Siemens in it and France will not participate without its military-industrial complex getting a substantial "taste" of the action...

Definitely agree with Ari. It is likely fail due to lack of funding more than anything else.

Funding is the biggest problem in Europe for start-ups. Vernture-capitalists basically do not exist.

Europe just don't have the atmosphere for the start-ups.

the way it looks, hyperloop tubes will be mostly built overground. thus no tunnel construction...

Micheal it is only so for the time being. To see the future of hyperlooping and its opportunities for tunneling world read:

https://tunnelcontact.com/discussion/view/2209/spacex-hyperloop-competition-elom-musk-raises-the-bar-for-2020-and-it-is-great-news-for-the-tunneling-world

I would not call it "operational" unless it transports passengers or cargo. What is done is a testbed of a short tube.