2024-12-19T21:16:14-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/85391612/ucla-architecture-and-urban-design-partners-with-hyperloop-to-study-tube-transit-system Sponsor 2013-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 >2013-11-04T22:18:31-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/m1/m1jug91q0nshwqlu.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <em>This post is brought to you by <a href="http://www.aud.ucla.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UCLA Architecture and Urban Design</a>:</em></p> <p> <strong>JumpStartFund-backed Hyperloop will conduct research with UCLA SUPRASTUDIO</strong></p> <p> UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) has announced it will partner with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc., which is backed by JumpStartFund, for its 2014&ndash;15 master of architecture II program, known as SUPRASTUDIO.&nbsp;</p> <p> Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is a newly created company that aims to bring to life entrepreneur Elon Musk's <a href="http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hyperloop concept</a>: a high-speed tube transit system that could whisk passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 30 minutes. Engineers Marco Villa, former director of missions operations at SpaceX, and Patricia Galloway, the first female president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, will spearhead the development of Hyperloop. The project was created through <a href="https://www.jumpstartfund.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JumpStartFund</a>, a crowd-powered online incubator led by CEO Dirk Ahlborn and chief operating officer Paul Coleman, a UCLA p...</p>