Skyway

A skyway is similar to a highway and a freeway, with airspace set aside for the general public to drive flying vehicles. It's also a hovering freeway and a futuristic freeway.

Signs and lane markers for the skyways float in the sky; these remain in the air by antigravity mechanisms. Local skyways connect to hyperlanes with access to major cities on other continents. These hyperlanes then connect to wormholes, which offers access to other worlds.

Floating skyway signs indicate exits, destinations, and even travel conditions for the skyway — including winds, weather and even ozone. A similar and smaller sign of the non-floating variety marked SKYWAY CONDITION — which are topped with three futuristic-looking antennas, where it is affixed to buildings, such as schools and theaters, give current travel conditions — such as "SKEWED ON", for example.

Air traffic controllers are employed to actively monitor the skyways to notify drivers of infractions of air traffic laws. All flying cars are equipped with transponders to help computers regulate the flow of traffic and for controllers to contact drivers to notify them of infractions. Other standard equipment for flying vehicles are eyewear that give live video feed behind the vehicle to the driver and a communications headset.

The equivalent of a traffic jam was if the skyway was "skewed", with traffic being unable to move in any direction — forward, backward, up or down. Speeds are around 80 miles per hour, with a speed limit of 90 mph, at an altitude just below a decending commercial airliner.