Feb/Mar 2016 Lite Mapping Challenge: Personal Rapid Transit

[JustinSlick]

Okay, I'm going to get started a little bit earlier this time instead of just posting a WIP the day before the challenge ends .

Non-essential backstory: Questions of practicality aside, the Space Elevator™ is one of my absolute favorite concepts in sci-fi. I'm not a "serious writer", but do consider it a hobby, and over the years I've written a number of little vignettes about characters and events in and around a space elevator complex. Because between the orbital station and everything happening around the base I just think there would be sooo much going on at a place like that.

I've always imagined it as an artificial off-shore platform with a planned city/development in the near vicinity. This is going to sound cheesy, but my mental reference point is Walt Disney's original EPCOT plan, because it's such an archetypal "world of tomorrow" kind of vision.

Relevant to the challenge: When I saw the theme, my first idea was to map out the transit sysfor my space elevator city. Since people don't drive boring old cars in the world of tomorrow, I imagine they'd be using some kind of personal rapid transit system.

But realistically, I think there would also be some kind of light-medium capacity commuter rail, and also a high-speed regional rail (since this is The Future, let's call it a Hyperloop ).

So that's the plan, gonna try to map out three types of rail near a really long vertical rail. Can't really call this a wip yet, but I did scribble in my notebook a little bit.



I'm honestly sitting here laughing at the bottom right sketch, because I have no idea why there's a 1930s suspension bridge leading to my looks-like-an-office-building space elevator