Many have proposed Vactrain technology, which is a maglev train that travels through a vacuum tunnel with no air resistance. The vacuum allows the train to go as fast as possible, with enough gradual acceleration to not discomfort riders.
Although incredibly fast (New York to Hollywood in 45 minutes, or New York to London in one hour,) a project to create vacuum tunnels around the world and cost so much money, dozens of trillions of dollars, and it will probably never happen before some sort of space travel is widely used.
However, this is what is could look like:
The most important cities in the world are not necessarily the most populated.
It would not make sense to connect cities like Jakarta or Mumbai even though they are in the top 5 since these cities have developing economies.
A better way to tell what the most important cities for transportation is the Global Cities ranking.
These cities are more important to the global economy and ranked according to according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade.
Here are maps that have a system connecting the top 8 global cities:
Travel time would be extremely shorter than air travel, and would connect the global economy in a revolutionary way.
New York to London 1 hour
New York to Chicago 30 minutes
Chicago to Los Angeles 1 hour
Los Angeles to Tokyo 90 minutes
We have the technology to do this, but probably not enough financial capital.
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