---
title: "Hyperloop One Optimistic Over Helsinki-Stockholm Track"
description: "Hyperloop One is launching feasibility checks for a transportation network that could get you from Helsinki to Stockholm in 30 minutes."
date: "2016-07-09"
modified: "2016-07-10"
authors:
  - name: "Jelor Gallego"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jelor-gallego"
url: "https://futurism.com/hyperloop-one-optimistic-over-helsinki-stockholm-track"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Hyperloop"
  - "Mass Transit"
tags:
  - "finland"
  - "hyperloop"
  - "hyperloop one"
  - "sweden"
---

# Hyperloop One Optimistic Over Helsinki-Stockholm Track

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## European Advances

While Hyperloop technology is still hitting dead ends in the United States, it seems to have [far better chances in Europe](<https://futurism.com/0-to-400-mph-in-only-2-seconds-super-high-speed-hyperloop-is-heading-to-russia>). In fact, they're starting feasibility checks as we speak.

An accounting firm has just made public pre-feasibility studies that give an optimistic picture of a [Hyperloop One implementation linking Helsinki and Stockholm.](<https://hyperloop-one.com/blog/FS-Links-Hyperloop-One-Baltic-Sweden-Finland-Aland-Islands>)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvjqv3Z2g9c

[The report ](<https://www.dropbox.com/s/h1vp1wvo7z1zudi/FSLinks%20Report.pdf?dl=0>)determined the expected capital cost of the project, which totaled 19 billion euros. That includes tube, track, civil engineering, vehicles, allowances for risk, overhead, and project delivery costs. A large share of that cost, 3 billion euros, is earmarked to build one of the world’s longest marine tunnels through the Aland archipelago.

This project entails constructing a Hyperloop system from the Finnish capital of Helsinki to the coastal city of Torku. On the Swedish side, a Hyperloop from Stockholm to a station in the municipality of Norrtalje woulc be constructed. Both could then be linked by a station in the middle of the ocean, in the Aland Islands.

![hyperloopone](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hyperloopone-1200x672.png>)

## Helsinki to Stockholm in 30 Mins

But the benefits of such a system certainly do entice. Using [Hyperloop technology](<https://hyperloop-one.com/what-is-hyperloop>), passengers (or cargo) could get from Helsinki to Stockholm in less than 30 minutes, compared with 3.5 hours via the airport, or overnight by a ferry. Trips to Helsinki and Stockholm’s airports from city centers would be slashed to less than 10 minutes.

The end result would be a Baltic Super Region, provided that a system to connect Estonia could also be implemented. An entire region of some 5 million people would become a metro network, lifting property values and productivity along the route.

Annual revenue and operating profit for the entire 500-km system is projected at 1 billion euros and 814 million euros, respectively, based on forecasts of 42.7 million passenger trips a year at an average ticket price of 25 euros. And this figure would not include the economic prosperity induced by such as system.

Hyperloop One is aiming to demonstrate a full-scale, high-speed test of its track, vehicle, and controlled-environment tube as soon as late 2016 or early 2017.