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Urban Digital Twins
for urban development
of the future

“Connected Urban Twins – Urban Data Platforms and Digital Twins for integrated urban development” (CUT) was launched in 2021. During the five-year period of the project, the three partner cities Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich are working together to further develop Digital Twins for cities and municipalities.

The project

What are Urban Digital Twins? We, the CUT project team, view the concept as a modular system whose building blocks can be assembled in new and different combinations for dealing with each individual issue and urban planning challenge. Read more about Urban Digital Twins.

The modular system

New: CUT Project Report

The CUT project report brings together the results of five years of intercity collaboration – ranging from strategic foundations to concrete applications. It serves both as a final documentation and as an inspiration for the future of digital urban development. The report includes illustrative use cases, interviews, and a practical toolbox designed to support cities and municipalities on their way towards developing their own Urban Data Platforms and Digital Twins.

Here you can find the CUT Project Report

DIN SPEC 91607 is now available in English

Together with over 40 experts from local authorities, associations, politics, science, and business, the Connected Urban Twins (CUT) team has spent two years developing a standard for urban digital twins: DIN SPEC 91607 “Digital Twins for Cities and Municipalities.” An English version is now available – an important step in ensuring that the standard is recognized, understood, and relevant to cities and municipalities internationally. DIN SPEC 91607 describes requirements for urban digital twins and is intended for use in German and European municipalities. It is aimed at researchers, IT experts, professional and technical operators of digital twins and municipal data platforms, as well as those working in specialist fields.

The document is available as a free download here
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Our vision

As part of In the Connected Urban Twins (CUT) project, we are jointly developing Urban Digital Twins for use in integrated urban development. Urban Digital Twins produce digital representations of our cities that can be used to play out ‘What-if’ scenarios for cities that are sustainable and improve the quality of life.

Our vision

Knowledge transfer

We understand the transfer of knowledge and information regarding Digital Urban Twins as one of our central project tasks. We share our project expertise and solutions on the following pages (German sites).

Have a look at our transfer activities

Solutions and use cases

DIPAS navigator: Digital citizen participation in Hamburg

The DIPAS navigator makes all of Hamburg’s public participation processes that have been and are being carried out with the Digital Participation System (DIPAS) visible on a central website. DIPAS navigator provides key figures and statistics at a city-wide level and at the same time allows users to delve into individual public participation processes for spatial planning procedures.

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DIPAS_stories: Telling stories with maps

DIPAS_stories brings together digital citizen participation and storytelling: With DIPAS_stories, specialized maps such as noise maps, digital development plans or 3D city models can be supplemented with texts, images and videos to tell map-based stories.

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Specialist portal for the city center – The development of city centers at a glance

The specialist portal for the city center is a digital web application with which specific specialist data relevant to urban development can be displayed, analyzed and used for exchange with various stakeholders.

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