A competitive race has formed between supporters of each of the two transport systems, leaving it unclear if either the Virgin Hyperloop One tube system or the Texas Central Railway high-speed trains will win out.

North Texas planners are getting serious about deploying a technology known as Hyperloop that promises to whisk riders from Dallas to Fort Worth in only six minutes — traveling in a giant tube in a futuristic system that if successful could redefine inter-city transportation.

But those same Metroplex planners also are pursuing plans for building high-speed rail plans (similar to systems used in Europe and Asia) in the same corridors connecting Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas.