A Concept of Integration of a Vactrain Underground Station with the Solidarity Transport Hub Poland

Abstract

This paper provides an analysis of a designed underground station infrastructure for vacuum tube high-speed trains for the planned mega transport hub in Poland. The potential of integrating the infrastructure of the station building with sealed low-pressure tubes system is analyzed. The Solidarity Transport Hub Poland is a planned mega hub to be located in Baranów Municipality, Poland, which is comprised of an airport, an airport city, a road, and railway infrastructure. It is to be integrated with the first route of vactrains in Poland. The aim of this paper is to design a hyperloop station building adequate for the advanced technology of low-pressure high-speed trains. Designing a hyperloop station is not trivial, due to technological aspects which have not been hitherto present in airport or railway planning and design, such as low-pressure zones or airlocks which determine possible passenger paths and evacuation roads. Both the mega airport and Polish hyperloop are in the planning stage, therefore, in this paper, available models and designs of the hyperloop station building and infrastructure are used in order to formulate recommendations for further development and identify critical issues related to the safety and reduction of passenger transit time. The main contribution of this paper is a model of the hyperloop station building which respects the principles of spatial planning and safety standards.

Comparative Analysis of Long-Distance Transportation with the Example of Sea and Rail Transport

“…The port's land area is 3248 ha, and the port quays specialized for several functions are 23,700 m long. The largest seagoing ships that can sail on the Baltic Sea can be accommodated in the newest part of the Port of Gdansk, called the Northern Port [11].…”

Key Points of the Management System for the Safety of Passengers Travelling with Low-Pressure Trains

“…the electromagnetic levitation (Soni et al, 2019;Pradhan and Katyayan, 2018;Abdelrahman et al, 2018;Tudor and Paolone, 2019;Lafoz et al, 2020), the dynamics of the HL capsules and low-pressure tubes (Rajendran and Harper, 2020;Niu et al, 2020a;Nowacki et al, 2019;Belova and Vulf, 2016) the HL infrastructure and their resistance to natural catastrophes (Ahmadi et al, 2020;Alexander and Kashani, 2018;Taylor et al, 2016;Heaton, 2017) environmental aspects of the HL technology including energy consumption and utilization of renewable energy sources (Janić, 2020;Nowacki et al, 2019;Sayeed et al, 2018Sayeed et al, -2018Lafoz et al, 2020;Roswall et al, 2018;Rajendran and Harper, 2020) as well as costs and benefits associated with operational, economic, social, and environmental performance of the HL (Janić, 2020;Almujibah et al, 2020;van Goeverden et al, 2018;Rajendran and Harper, 2020). As the deployment of the HL technology gets more and more real, the design of hyperloop station and passenger safety management issues need systematical exploration, however existing studies on these subjects are scarce (Dudnikov, 2019;Taylor et al, 2016;Covell, 2017;Stryhunivska et al, 2020;van Goeverden et al, 2018;Rajendran and Harper, 2020). This work aims at filling in this gap by studying critical safety issues and propounding a way of dealing with one of them, i.e.…”

The Hyperloop System and Stakeholders: A Review and Future Directions

“…Concrete pylons are expected to support the tube system with a height depending on the configuration of the guideway [53,107]. Three types of guideway infrastructures are under study: elevated, on ground, and underground [8,9,11,13,16,22,66,87,107]. The elevated guideway is expected to be the safer, as there is no need for crossing control systems at roadway intersections [107] and the land footprint is smaller for pylons compared to a railway track [44,107].…”

“…The elevated guideway is expected to be the safer, as there is no need for crossing control systems at roadway intersections [107] and the land footprint is smaller for pylons compared to a railway track [44,107]. Leveraging the surface on top of the tubes, solar panels could be installed [8][9][10][11][12][13][17][18][19][20][21]25,44,53,66,87,88,106] depending on local conditions, thus contributing to the local electric grid.…”

“…Two options for locating the airlocks are researched: placing the airlock chambers in the station hall or in the low-pressure zone [87]. In terms of safety, operation time, and minimum required area for (dis)embarking, the first concept is the most viable [113].…”