CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 July 2008
Company News
Autodesk Announces Salzburg, Austria, as First Pilot City of Its Digital Cities Initiative
Autodesk, Inc. announced it will be working with the city of Salzburg, Austria, as the first pilot city in Autodesk's new Digital Cities initiative. The announcement was made with the Mayor of Salzburg at the AGIT 2008 conference in Salzburg.
The Digital City initiative is Autodesk's technology designed to provide a collaborative environment for visualizing, analyzing and simulating the future impact of urban design and development at a city-wide scale.
Autodesk has chosen to work with Salzburg to help them integrate their city data into a highly detailed 3D model of their city. This combination of city data with realistic visualization and simulation tools can allow Salzburg to view and interact with the city landscape, as well as analyze the impact of future urban planning, tourism and economic development projects before they are built.
Scientific personnel from Salzburg University's Center of Geoinformation (Z_GIS) are involved with the implementation of Digital City for the city of Salzburg. "As a competence center for geoinformation, we are pleased to be able to contribute to one of the most ambitious innovation projects worldwide, and to be able to do this in our home town of Salzburg. Thanks to this project, students can benefit from gaining decisive knowledge advantages and participating companies in Salzburg can develop services upon this new platform. In this way, the Z_GIS will be strongly oriented to economic, scientific and administrative interfaces."
About Digital Cities Technology
A Digital City allows stakeholders from the public, city government, construction, and business communities to work together to understand how many different proposals could impact the urban environment by experiencing the future of the city before it becomes real.
The goal of this pilot program is for Salzburg to be able to bring together 3D models of above and below ground features in an open platform that supports secure integration of CAD, building information modeling (BIM), geospatial, civil engineering, and infrastructure data over a wide geographic area. By combining this data with realistic visualization, analysis and simulation tools, a Digital City can deliver an intuitive and compelling way to understand the impact of plans and proposals from any point in time and from any point of view.
For more information about Digital Cities, visit http://www.autodesk.com/digitalcities.
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