Go-Tube Roots

Like any good tree Go-Tube has roots in other projects.

Hyperloop was announced by Elon Musk in August of 2013 and stimulated much interest in this area. His work is continued by Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Hyperloop Technologies. SpaceX has announced a pod building competition to stimulate and support development.

ET3 and Daryl Oster have championed an Evacuated Tube Transport method and obtained a patent in 1999.

A solar powered glass transport tube, Tubeway, was proposed by Michael Thalhammer

Earlier work and patents by Robert Goddard, Robert M. Salter of RAND and others, see references to the VacTrain in wikipedia.

The Go-Tube is a three dimensional truss, as is the IsoTruss. It is inspired by and based on work by Buckminster Fuller including the space frame and the Fullerene structure.