Photos: Cutting Edge | Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

HTT architects Christos Kyratsous, left, Yayun Zhou and Chunhua Chiu look at a design for Hyperloop tubes over the Los Angeles River.

Bibop Gresta, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies’ operations chief, left, and CEO Dirk Ahlborn in front of a capsule model.

Hyperloops are tubes to zip people hundreds of miles an hour between cities. Above, an HTT model of a Hyperloop capsule and tubes.

Greg Henk, left, who’s managed transportation projects nationwide and now works for HTT chief Dirk Ahlborn, center, along with architect Craig Hodgetts.

Building a flexible workforce was the idea of HTT Chief Executive Dirk Ahlborn, 38, a German-born entrepreneur, who’s long advocated crowdsourced, online management.

Bibop Gresta, HTT’s operations chief, left, with Greg Henk of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Architect Craig Hodgetts, who teaches architecture at UCLA, led a group of students to design Hyperloop stations and transportation systems.

With renewable energy sources and the novel design, Hyperloops promise to be more resource-efficient and faster overall than car, plane or train. Above, a model of a HTT Hyperloop capsule.

JJ Sansaone, left, and Andrew La Mendola take measurements for a backdrop of a Hyperloop capsule model.

Within the first six months of the project launching online, more than 200 online applicants sought to help HTT.