London ( CNN ) -- A designer has come up with a unique and futuristic solution for speeding up rail travel : he does n't want to change the engines , or the tracks -- he wants to get rid of the stations . Determined to take rail transport into the 21st century , Paul Priestman , director of British design group Priestmangoode , is the man behind the `` Moving Platforms '' concept , which he believes could potentially revolutionize the rail industry . His scheme would see travelers served by a carousel of trams and high-speed trains that would take passengers from their homes to their destinations without them ever having to use a bus , car or taxi . `` The idea with Moving Platforms is that ... if you were going on holiday or on business for instance , you could get onto a tram on your street and then seamlessly travel from that onto the high-speed line and then get off at your destination in another city , then onto a tram and then end up at your destination without ever having gone in your car or perhaps got on a bus , '' says Priestman . `` It 's totally integrated into a sort of larger transport system , '' he adds . The idea is to have a city-wide network of trams that travel in a loop and connect with a high-speed rail service . Read more : How green is HSR ? But instead of passengers having to get off the tram at a rail station and wait for the next HSR service to arrive , the moving tram would `` dock '' with a moving train , allowing passengers to cross between tram and train without either vehicle ever stopping . `` The trams speed up and the high-speed train slows down and they join , so they dock at high speed , '' explains Priestman . `` They stay docked for the same amount of time that it would stop at a station , '' he adds . `` There are big doors , there are wide doors , they 're all the same level so you can seamlessly go between the two vehicles quite peacefully ; there 's no hurry . `` Then , when everyone 's done that , the doors shut and then the trains separate and the tram then goes back into the city or town and picks up more passengers and drops off passengers . '' Instead of using paper tickets to pass through a barrier , passengers would used an RFID ( radio-frequency identification ) system to transfer from tram to train . Similar systems that let passengers scan pre-paid smartcards are already used on many public transport networks . While Priestman admits that it will be some time before his vision could be implemented , he says the time has come to rethink how we travel . `` This idea is a far-future thought but would n't it be brilliant to just re-evaluate and just re-think the whole process ? '' he says .
`` Moving Platforms '' is an integrated tram-to-train concept . Passengers would cross between tram and train without either vehicle stopping . It 's the work of British designer Paul Priestman .