The future of transportation promises to be both fast and sleek. That’s because Danish starchitect Bjarke Ingels has just teamed with Hyperloop to unveil a vision of how the world’s fastest autonomous transportation system will appear. The partnership with Ingels came at an exciting time, not only due to his expertise in design and architecture but because news followed that Hyperloop had struck a deal with the United Arab Emirates to complete plans for the company’s first commercial Hyperloop transportation system, running from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. The journey, which is roughly 99 miles long, would traditionally take upwards of two hours by car. Hyperloop, on the other hand, is promising the public that the same trip will take a total of 12 minutes in its six-person pods.

Hyperloop and Bjarke’s joint vision entails a design that would work with existing urban infrastructure to propel pods of passengers as fast as 680 m.p.h. This type of technology, however, didn’t occur overnight. Since January, Hyperloop engineers have been experimenting with various ways to safely roll out their exciting product. During that time, they’ve been able to harness the power of electric propulsion, enabling transportation pods to rapidly operate within near-frictionless vacuum tubes, which can quickly move passengers while leaving only a minimal carbon footprint.

Hyperloop’s partnership with a visionary such as Bjarke Ingels and with the UAE are both major steps in the right direction for the ambitious mode of transportation, as well as for the company’s goal of welcoming its first passenger-ready system by 2020.