Hyperloop Hotel' Could Be the Future of Luxury Travel

The proposed Hyperloop Hotel would use shipping containers turned into hotel rooms to

carry guests between more than a dozen U.S. cities via a Hyperloop transit system. Credit: Brandan Siebrecht/Radical Innovation Award A new design concept that aims to combine the luxury of a hotel room with a high-speed rail system could make traveling between U.S. cities faster and far more comfortable. The mobile "Hyperloop Hotel" idea was recently announced as the student winner of the 2017 Radical Innovation Award, a competition for new ideas in hospitality. The Hyperloop Hotel is the vision of Brandan Siebrecht, a graduate architecture student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Though the Hyperloop — a transportation system in which passenger-filled pods are accelerated through low-pressure tubes to their destination — is still in the development phases by several companies, Siebrecht thinks it is the next big innovation in transportation. In fact, he was inspired by the startup Hyperloop One, which recently began construction of a full-scale test track, known as the DevLoop, in the Nevada desert. [In Photos: Building the Superfast 'Hyperloop One' Transit System of the Future]