Digital Twin as a Common Good

(DT aCoGo)

Basic Pilot Info:

Involved Cities:
‘s-Hertogenbosch and Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Tampere (Finland)

Duration: May 1st, 2025 - August 31st, 2026 (16 Months)

Domains: 

  • Predictive traffic management/sustainable mobility planning

  • Data-services related to weather, climate and extreme weather events

Motivation:

Urban Challenges are inherently complex and multidisciplinary. This calls for more holistic and integral  approaches to assess policy and stakeholder value trade-offs.

  • Digital Twinning helps to get a grip on the cross-domain complexity involved, creating Common Operational Pictures and thus enabling multi-stakeholder engagement on different levels. It also addresses the shortage in resources (human capital as well as materials). 

  • Urban Data Space: To this end public and private (open) data from a variety of sources need to be shared in Urban Data Spaces to feed domain specific Models but also enabling Model2Model interoperability. It should facilitate Digital Twins in:

  • Cross-domain data and DT-models sharing in order to make cross domain (policy) trade-offs 

  • Deliver insight in cross-scale (district, city, region) impacts 

  • Deliver fit for purpose visualization for multistakeholder collaboration and/or participation (2D,3D, 4D, IX) 

  • Facilitate short as well as long term decision making (from events to city monitoring dashboards)

Use Case Description:

Focus and main goal : deployment of the Open Urban Platform as a full Urban Data Space for the Digital Twin Pipeline and to make digital twinning replicable and scalable cross European cities by using ‘Recipe- templates ’. 

  • The Twin enables stakeholders to develop scenarios for heat stress mitigation, flood management improvement and mobility impact, in at least three moments in time (current, short future, long future), enabling  better joint decision making for reduction of  CO₂ emissions and citizen disruptions. 

  • The use case will test several models  (climate, mobility, water and BIM) and combine them for  Model2 Model calculations, using international open standards and api’s, allowing different stakeholders to visualize design and mitigation scenarios in a self-chosen fit-for-purpose manner (2D, 3D, 4D, IX).

  • The Urban Data Space enables public and private data from a variety of sources to be shared, including interoperability between existing trust frameworks and model interoperability

Added Value:

 Curated Recipe-template

- DT a-CoGO will trial the recipe-template on replicability, human-machine readability and useability within DDS4SSCC blueprint building blocks.

  • Recipe- Cookbook 

  • Practical playbook to develop and deploy Recipe’s