Next Generation Logistics CargoTube: Carbon Neutral High Throughput Logistics By Low-pressure Tube Transportation
- CargoTube is an innovative approach for decarbonized, efficient, effective, and safe transport. Carbon neutral operation providing high-speed movement of goods enables a sustainable link between urban and economic regions, such as production facilities. Air resistance causes the vast majority of the energy consumption in high-speed transportation. The losses by air friction scale with the velocity cubed and are unavoidably lost by aero- and thermodynamic laws. The straightforward solution operates the transportation within a tube at 100-1000 fold reduced air pressure. Low-pressure tube transport employs existing technology with low infrastructure requirements for high-throughput cargo applications based on hyperloop technologies. CargoTube is quicker and less costly to deploy, but complementary to and compatible with emerging hyperloop standards and technologies.
| Author: | Thomas Schüning, Walter Neu, Lukas Eschment, James Napier, Thomas Nobel |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.841 |
| Parent Title (English): | Transportation Research Procedia, Conference Proceedings Transport Research Arena (TRA Lisbon 2022), 14.11.-17.11.2022, Lisboa (Portugal) |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2023 |
| Release Date: | 2025/02/28 |
| Tag: | CargoTube; Green Transport; Hyperloop; Low-pressure tube transport; Multimodal cross docking |
| Volume: | 72 |
| Pagenumber: | 8 |
| First Page: | 2944 |
| Last Page: | 2951 |
| Institute: | Fachbereich Technik |
| Research Focus Area: | Nachhaltige Technologien und Prozesse |