At first glance, I&#x27;d say that there isn&#x27;t much freight that people would pay much of a premium to chop 30 minutes or so off the e2e time.<p>But I guess the concept would be that there&#x27;s no long-term premium -- that cost&#x2F;mile is lower than air freight, after the initial (I&#x27;m sure insanely expensive) costs to build the track.  If the cost&#x2F;mile was competitive with rail but the e2e time was competitive with air, I expect you could find a lot of demand for it.  That&#x27;s a big if, of course.<p>Longer term, in terms of freight, if the system basically worked and you could build your practices around it, you&#x27;d expect to see people delivering goods that don&#x27;t necessarily have much &quot;freshness&quot; requirement per se in the name of the great god of Shortening Supply Chains, which might even be worth paying a premium for -- but only if there&#x27;s an extant hyperloop network that you can plan your business around.<p>If the hyperloop is physically basically sound (that is: it works more or less as described) but either the up-front costs are so huge or the operating costs are higher than expected that you have to long-term pay a premium over air, I&#x27;d expect it would have some success as a people-mover, even if the first freight route ended up being unprofitable.