Urbanization is quickly migrating populations back to cities where they once thrived before suburbia’s growth beginning in the 1950s. In just 15 years, 60% percent of the world’s people will live in cities, a 10% increase.

As city populations grow, so will traffic jams, which already cost commuters around the world up to 100 hours in wasted time annually, according to an INRIX study.

In order to get above the noise and pollution of congested city life, Airbus plans to produce the first working prototype of a self-driving flying car by the end of next year.

“In as little as ten years, we could have products on the market that revolutionize urban travel for millions of people,” Rodin Lyasoff, project executive at Airbus’s A³ group in Silicon Valley, said in an article on the Airbus website.

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