Traveling from Venice to Milan in 15 minutes, or from Venice to Rome in 30. It sounds impossible—especially if you imagine doing it inside a magnetically levitating capsule that produces no pollution and consumes less energy than it generates. Yet this could become reality in just a few years. The project is called Hyper Transfer, a Made-in-Italy technology set to begin testing in the Veneto region.

The initiative began in March 2022 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Veneto Region, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railways), the University of Padua, Webuild, and Leonardo. And it’s in Veneto where the first experimental test track has now been built: approximately 10 kilometers between Padua and Venice.