Systra has beaten 66 other teams in a two-day competition to design a station that could serve a planned Hyperloop service in Dubai.

The “Build Earth Live Hyperloop” prize involved competitors from 26 countries from a range of fields including transport engineering, architecture and universities.

Hyperloop is an industrial research project which is aimed at achieving transport speeds of 1,200 km/hr. The concept involves transporting passengers in capsules in reduced-pressure tubes using a magnetic field generated by induction motors.

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