INTRODUCTION

Transportation is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to
another, it is the key element in the infrastructure providing essential services for
promoting development. The demand for transportation infrastructure and services
has been rising around 10 percent a year with the current infrastructure being unable
to meet the demands.

Existing modes of transportation in India include Road, Rail, Air and Water. Road
network in India accounts for 5,472,144 kilometres carrying maximum population of
India. Railways has a network of115000 km of track with 7500 railway stations. More
than 20 million passengers travel daily in Indian Railways and around 2.8 million tons
of freight is transported daily. India has become the third largest aviation market in
terms of domestic passenger traffic at 100 million in 2016. India has an extensive
network of inland waterways in the form of rivers, canals, backwaters and creeks. The
major disadvantages of all the existing modes of transportation in India are either they
are slow (Road and Water), very costly(Air) or combination of both(Rail).

Finding the means to move men and material over long distance quickly and cheaply
is a conundrum that technologists and police makers grapple with perpentually.

An approximate of 400 deaths occur on Indian Roads everyday with victims aged
between 20 – 25 years , about a 9 percent of emissions in India are from
transportation which is a 5th largest killer in India.

India being second largest populated country in the world and estimated to reach 1.4
billion people by 2022 requires a mode of transportation system which is faster,
cheaper and address all the disadvantages posed by the existing modes.

Hyperloop