Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc.: That's the name of the company that will try to make Elon Musk's far-out vision for a super-high-speed transportation system to life.

Marco Villa, who until recently was the director of mission operations for SpaceX, and Patricia Galloway, formerly the president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, are leading the charge to realize this dream. As PopMech reported last month, these two signed on to head a Hyperloop group on the site JumpStartFund that would try to form a corporation and tap the wisdom of the crowd to work on a real version of the concept.

In the past month, they've not only created the company and settled on the name, but also brought in a few key partnerships. JumpStartFund announced today that ANSYS, GloCal Network Corporation, and the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's graduate program SUPRASTUDIO had all signed up to help out Hyperloop Transportation Technologies in their particular area of expertise. ANSYS, an engineering simulation software company, will model the feasibility of the project and of the Hyperloop company's evolving design. GloCal will help with the advanced materials science. And UCLA's architecture department will look into urban planning for potential Hyperloop stations—where they'll go, and how cities can build around them.

Those interested in joining the Hyperloop group still can sign up at JumpStartFund. Villa has told PopMech that he hopes to release an updated version of the overall design, with input from the crowd, early next year.

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