Forchheim shows how Digital Twins make Cities smarter and faster
The City of Forchheim uses digital twins to make urban planning processes more efficient and transparent. With support from eyefactive GmbH, the municipality employs interactive touchscreen solutions that provide new insights and participation opportunities for both citizens and planners. This project demonstrates how smaller cities can benefit from digitalization and new forms of information access. Digital twins enable Forchheim to base land-use planning and city development on data, focusing on transport, climate, and urban green spaces.
In Forchheim, the digital twin serves as a core tool to modernize municipal planning and increase transparency. By digitizing and integrating diverse city data - ranging from transport flows to environmental information and development plans - the city creates an interactive digital twin that allows planners and citizens alike to access and understand complex urban dynamics.
Forchheim exemplifies how small municipalities, with comparatively limited resources, can harness the advantages of digital twins. The technology helps accelerate land-use planning, enables early insights into development measures, and significantly improves citizen participation.
The project is implemented in cooperation with eyefactive from Hamburg, which provides an innovative multi-touch software platform. This platform powers large interactive touchscreens used in Forchheim to visualize complex data intuitively and promote user interaction. Planning decisions become not only more data-driven but also more understandable and accessible to non-experts.
Extensive preparatory work such as data collection, integration, and establishing technical standards laid the foundation for this successful implementation. The city can now provide data-driven perspectives on traffic management, climate effects, and green infrastructure, thus improving the quality and speed of decision-making.
A comprehensive study accompanies the project, offering Forchheim practical guidance from goal setting to technical deployment of the digital twin. This positions Forchheim as a pioneer in modern digital urban development that combines efficiency with citizen engagement.
The digital twin has significantly accelerated and made our planning processes more transparent. The interactive visualizations help increase citizen understanding and engagement.
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