The Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA) at the University of Melbourne has been selected by Land Use Victoria, the Victorian Government's key agency for land administration, to design and develop Victoria's first digital twin project at the landmark urban renewal project, Fishermans Bend.
A digital twin gives a highly accurate digital representation of the real world. The Victorian Digital Twin project will allow 4D modelling of the design and condition of physical infrastructure in real world locations both above and below ground, including legal boundaries, to enable better decision making about how to manage current and future infrastructure and planning.
Director of CSDILA Professor Abbas Rajabifard said: "The Fisherman Bend Digital Twin will be a collaborative project across government, research and industry, which will allow us to collect, manage and visualise complex digital information about cities and infrastructures. Using geospatial innovations and capabilities, we will enhance Victoria's liveability and Melbourne's goals as a smart and sustainable city."
First initiated by the Office of Strategic Land Assessment and Information (SLAI) within the Victorian Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) in 2018, the project will enable authorities addressing unresolved challenges of urban renewal, city planning and digital modernisation of land registers.
Director of SLAI and the Chair of Victorian Government Digital Twin Pilot project Melissa Harris said: "We are building the most innovative technologies in this project to provide better services to the community."
As Australia's largest urban renewal project, Fishermans Bend is the perfect location to showcase the importance of this urban planning technology as this inner city precinct is transformed and grows over the next 30 years. In time, intelligent, innovative digital systems will be built either independently or collectively, to coordinate the management of smart, sustainable and liveable cities, suburbs and regional centres.
The Fishermans Bend Digital Twin project adopts FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and enables the spatially enabled information to be searched, discovered, aggregated and visualised seamlessly, irrespective of system, model, data content, server or application.
By leveraging CSDILA's capabilities and technical resources, the Fishermans Bend project will establish and promote a more responsible approach to urban renewal and precinct planning activities and will act as a live testbed to maximise sustainable outcomes for all. It is one step closer to the realisation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Australia.
Fishermans Bend will soon be home to the University of Melbourne's new campus for engineering and design. CSDILA's work is one example of the many research initiatives the University of Melbourne will deliver. The University is committed to working with government and industry to deliver research applications that make significant contributions to liveability and economic uplift in the community.
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For more information about Fishermans Bend and the University of Melbourne:
https://ourcampus.unimelb.edu.au/fishermans-bend
