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Australia has the second busiest domestic air route in the world. Over 54 thousand flights flyfrom Melbourne to Sydney each year, in part because we’re limited to driving or flying. Butwhat if there was another way to move around the continent.A competition led by Space X in Los Angeles is challenging University students from aroundthe globe to build a new type of rail system- a pod that travels in a vacuum at almost thespeed of sound. Melbourne’s Zac McClelland co captained a team that designed a prototypefor the system.Driverless cars are an inevitable part of our future but with intelligent vehicles we need anupdated transport system. Professor Marjid Sarvi is heading up a project to ensure that ourintersections, pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles will communicate with each other, ensuringsafety and efficiency on our highways and urban centres.Featured guests:Zac McClelland, Team Captain, VicHyperDr Majid Sarvi, Director of AIMES (https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/industry/transport/aimes)