This is an image of how I imagine the future of transportation. Skyscrapers connected by a flying public transit system. Buildings will be vast enough to house their own stations to support easy commutes for staff and consumers.

This is my conceptual design of the vehicle which will transport passengers from tower to tower. Each vehicle can carry a maximum of 6.

This is how I imagine my transport working above the clouds. Buildings will either be initially designed to incorporate or adapted to create platforms for passengers to embark and alight.

I have chosen magnetic levitation technology to power my transport. Put simply, this is using two of the same magnetic points to create a repulsive force. I believe that in 100 years time, scientists and engineers will have figured out how to harness and control this technology. Transport will no longer need guidance rails. There could be some sort of emitting device which creates electro-magnetic waves on which vehicles can travel, as if like flying.

The scenario I envisage happening in the future is how people will travel, not from city to city but from building to building. When skyscrapers are hundreds of storeys tall, a meeting at a neighbouring tower will be a trek! The fastest elevators at the moment run at 20 metres per second, to make this journey quicker I will imagine ways to traverse these buildings using futuristic transport and technology.

To create a scenario and for inspiration, we were asked to watch sci-fi films. A common theme which runs through these movies is the war between human versus intelligent machines. The Matrix also challenges the idea of what reality is and imagines the possibility of our lives being unconsciously controlled inside a computer system. Many ideas of the future are dystopian and depict over populated cities with sky high mega structures such as those seen in Bladerunner.