The flying train AeroSlider

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Airlines aren’t the worst polluters in the world, but planes do account for an incredible 2.5% of the world’s carbon emissions. So by any measure, flying is a privilege—the exact sort of 21st-century excess that we need to reassess. Which is why the strategic design consultancy Manyone is thinking about radical alternatives to flight. The studio’s solution? A giant train that loops around half the world like a mega subway system.

The system is an elevated train called the AeroSlider, and it’s the work of strategic design consultancy Manyone.

Rather than resting on tracks, the train floats through a series of magnetized loops 65 feet in the air, Fast Company reports. Those loops propel the train forward, like a rail gun, at speeds upwards of 804 kilometers per hour (500 miles per hour), which is about the average cruising speed of a plane.

Manyone laid out a route for the AeroSlider that would extend from Africa to Europe to Asia. But right now, that route — and everything else about the AeroSlider — is just a concept.