Project title: Digital Urban European Twins for smarter decision making (DUET)
H2020 topic: H2020-DT-GOVERNANCE-12-2019-2020
Grant Agreement No: 870697
Duration: 11/2019 – 10/2022
Total budget: 4 million €
Consortium: 15 partners / 6 countries
Website: https://www.digitalurbantwins.com/
DUET is an Innovation project designed to leverage the advanced capabilities of cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) to evolve the traditional public policy making cycle using large open data sources. The aim is to help public sector decision-making become more democratic and effective, both in the short and long term, through the development and use of Digital Twins for policy impact exploration and experimentation in entire cities and regions. These digital replicas of a cities
system will
- enhance day-to-day city management by helping city managers react quickly to real-time events through rapid experimentation of different decision impacts, and
- ensure longer term policy decisions are more effective and trusted by enabling city managers from different units, to explore and discuss with citizens and businesses city issues in a visual, easy-to-digest way via a common view.
Thanks to the 3D interface public administrations will, for the first time, more easily harness the collective intelligence of ALL policy stakeholders to tackle complex, systemic policy problems that require innovative thinking from multi-sectors to develop
transformative solutions.
Developed and tested in cities and Regions at different points in their digital transformation journeys – Flanders Region, Belgium, the City of Athens, Greece and City of Pilsen, Czech Republic – DUET will create the concept of Policy-Ready-
Data-as-a-Service and ensure all cities across Europe will be able to create their own their own Digital Twins that address ethical considerations around data use whilst also complying with Europe’s stringent privacy and security regulations.
» The UWB is responsible for the traffic and noise modelling by implementing the Traffic Modeller and for
integrating the solution into the Digital Twin concept within the Pilsen pilot. «