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Urban Digital Twins as an instrument for demand driven, cross-domain cooperation and evidence-based policymaking.

Digital Twins originated as a term and discipline in the manufacturing industry as a simulation tool for testing industrial designs two decades ago. A Digital City Twin or a Digital Urban Twin emerged more recently as an instrument to manage complex processes in a city. The concept of a Digital Twin of the city is in full swing in 2021. Notable examples in Asia, North America and Europe such as Singapore, Toronto, Helsinki, Rotterdam and Vienna mainly focus on an infrastructure and supply-oriented approach by realising BIM (Building Information Models), whether or not in combination with IoT sensor data. This research wants to start from a demand-based 'use case-oriented approach', in which the questions and possibilities of a Digital Urban Twin are examined to be able to simulate cross-policy policy questions in the city as input for policy decisions and communication / co-creation to the citizens.

Date:1 Jun 2021 →  Today
Keywords:Evidence based policy making, Smart Cities, Local Digital Twins, Data management, Digital Urban Twins, Data Visualisation, Digital City Twins, Urban Digital Twins
Disciplines:Smart cities, Public administration, Data visualisation and imaging, Geospatial information systems
Project type:PhD project