The phrase "a rapid path to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a quick or efficient way to achieve a goal or reach a destination.
Example: "The new software provides a rapid path to increased productivity for our team."
Alternatives: "a quick route to" or "an expedited way to".
If the US president is to make saving the planet his legacy, he needs to beat a rapid path to President Xi's door.
"As part of Lenovo, Motorola Mobility will have a rapid path to achieving our goal of reaching the next 100 million people with the mobile Internet.
That's a first for NSF's most prestigious fellowship program, which is on a rapid path to triple in size as part of the Obama Administration's pledge to increase the number of domestic students entering the scientific workforce.
We hypothesize that screening small-molecule libraries highly enriched for FDA-approved drugs will provide a more rapid path to clinical application.
The age of the digital startup has certainly afforded companies a more rapid path to international success, though the list of companies cited does, perhaps unintentionally point to some of the difficulties dealing with local regulations.
Iterative processing enables a far more rapid path to achieving the level of purities needed for high performance computing.
In my view, the surest and most rapid path to a renewable and sustainable economy is to accommodate mass political demands for greater wealth but also work hard to accelerate the development of more effective, efficient, and less polluting technologies.
But the developing world has reached the end of its rapid path to rising G.D.P. and per capita income.
Furthermore, since Grails is built on Groovy, an agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine (http://groovy.codehaus.org/), it provided us with a rapid path from prototype to production.
Meanwhile, a recent ruling by a New Jersey state court in favor of gay marriage there continues to put that state on a rapid path toward full marriage rights.
