TAMK Campus Digital Twin contributes to experimentation of sustainable mobility solutions
About this good practice
Tampere City Digital Twin (TCDT) is a city initiative that aims to create a virtual model of the city of Tampere in Finland, covering aspects such as buildings, infrastructure and mobility. One of the main components of TCDT is a 3D model of the city, which is based on various data sources such as aerial imagery, lidar scans, maps and real time open data. The 3D model is updated regularly and can be accessed through a web-based platform that allows users to explore, visualize, and analyze the city from different perspectives.
Tampere University of Applied Sciences’ (TAMK) contribution to TCDT is to provide its expertise and knowledge on green city logistics. TAMK uses digital twin platform as a tool for testing and evaluating different scenarios and solutions for urban freight and people transport. TAMK incorporates key quadruple helix stakeholders, especially city authorities and private entities, in the process, thus promoting co-creation and dissemination of innovative and sustainable solutions for the city.
Connected to this local framework, TAMK Campus Digital Twin good practice utilizes student projects to investigate, develop and exploit the opportunities of digital twins. The approach creates a real-time, dynamic digital 3D model of campus area’s traffic and public transportation connections as part of TCDT. The process identifies and provides guidance for suitable commercial and open access tools for 3D modelling, digital twin creation and simulation purposes.
Resources needed
To set up, demonstrate and validate the Campus Digital Twin (3-year project) requires expert staff resources of approximately 63.000€. To run and continuously evolve the solution estimates to 10.000€/y. Software licenses up to 10.000€/y. Other costs (e.g. sensors, XR equipment) 3.000€/y.
Evidence of success
3D and XR digital traffic and mobility provides opportunities for efficient and flexible simulations facilitating sustainable urban planning. Projects ongoing: 3.
City digital twins can open doors for various ways to concretise 15-minute city, e.g., sharing economy, innovations and commercialized services supporting growth.
Citizens can be more effectively engaged in the urban mobility planning, thus making the sustainable mobility options more accessible and attractive. Citizens involved: 15.
Potential for learning or transfer
Experiences from quadruple helix collaboration can be scaled and shared in multiple ways:
• Using the digital twin to test and further develop solutions by which open, real-time IoT-data is integrated in the TCDT - simulations made in the model to control functions of the real world
• Enhancing decision-making processes - visualization and simulation of different scenarios.
• Improving sustainability of the city operations - monitoring and optimization of the resource consumption and emissions.
• Increasing citizen engagement - access and co-creation of services.
• Fostering competitiveness of the city - testing of new solutions and business models.
• Utilising low-cost but innovative student projects to experiment digital twins.
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