Exploiting Digital Twins and Metaverse Technologies for the Digital Transformation of City Transportation
摘要
As cities Digital Twins (DT) blend the digital, physical, and human worlds, they offer a precise and trustworthy reference. They also enable stakeholders to evaluate the effects of planned interventions prior to investments and implementations. METACITIES is an Excellence Hub of Southeastern Europe, represented by three innovation ecosystems in Cyprus, Greece, and Bulgaria. Each ecosystem is Quadruple Helix Model-based and involves partners representing scientific, industrial, civic, and public sectors. They aim to collaboratively define and implement common digital Research and Innovation strategies, policies, and joint projects-pilots, coordinated for the growth of the entire Southeast European region as well as the benefit of the people living there and the stakeholders in the regional innovation ecosystems. A key expected outcome of METACITIES is the development and adoption of an Open Digital Twin framework (ODTF) that facilitates the collaborative development of Digital Twins of complementary future city domains, focusing on use cases with high social impact such at Smart Mobility, Energy Efficient Buildings and Urban Planning, while conducting a socio-techno-economic requirements analysis. In this paper, the strategic objectives, methodology, the quadruple helix model of collaboration of the Excellence Hub and the way these are applied to the digital transformation of the City’s mobility sector are presented. Aspects to be addressed include monitoring of traffic volume, identification and tracking of emergency incidents, real-time information and notifications on parking availability, etc.