Transport Innovation Quotes

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

Railroads ... are positively the greatest blessing that the ages have wrought out for us. They give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel.

Local transit agencies have developed apps to let you know when the next bus is coming, but there are so many more applications that can be done.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

I see incredible opportunities for transportation to benefit from rapidly advancing automation, connectivity, and information technologies.

Dubai makes perfect sense for Hyperloop One because this is the 21st century's global transport hub, and its leaders understand that Hyperloop One is ushering in the next era of transportation.

Singapore is likely to be the world's first market for self-driving cars. Commercial services around self-driving vehicles will likely be in Singapore before they are anywhere else in the world.

We're very focused on building the hyperloop. And the hyperloop is exactly something we've described as an actual tube with levitation propulsion and a vacuum that essentially vents around sky inside the tube flying at 200,000 feet. That, to us, is the hyperloop, and we're the only company building that.

Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird.

Our vision is to, one day, connect all of Europe with our Hyperloop One system, networking the entire continent.

A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

We can't simply dismiss the idea that autonomous vehicles are going to be a big part of our transportation system.

When we talk about 'smart transportation,' it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.

Everything that's transported over ground, whether it's people or parcels, will be impacted by autonomous vehicle technology.

Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'

In the U.S. and abroad, there's incredible positivity towards Hyperloop. People are excited about it, and it's really begun to capture people's imaginations.

There will be new businesses that will digitally enable the planning and consumption of passenger and goods movement to be more efficient, enjoyable, productive, safer, cleaner, and cheaper. That could mean everything from maintaining vehicle fleets to remote monitoring.

The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband.