Worldwide Lightlines
January 2010
Lightcraft technologies approached the Umeå Institute of Design to define how their technology could be used. Lightcraft technologies has been doing research on suborbital spaceships that could transport small groups of passengers at really fast speeds.
The final design is the user journey of a trip. If travelling to the other side of the world was only one hour away, the airport model would make us spend more time at the airport than actually flying. Our concept proposed using the subway network to check-in at the cities and bring the cockpit to the launching area. This way, the preparation for take off and the check-in times would be reduced and long distance travel would be more spontaneous.