DESSIGNING THE FUTURE CITIES USING A DIGITAL TWIN -VIRTUAL SHIZUOKA PROJECT-

Abstract

Recently in Japan, rapid population decline, low birthrate, and an aging population have caused social problems such as human resource shortages, cutting public transportation systems, lack of transportation for the elderly in underpopulated areas, and deterioration of infrastructures.

The severity of natural disasters has also been intensifying.

To respond to these social problems, Shizuoka prefecture has promoted the "Virtual Shizuoka Project" as a new type of social infrastructure. In this project, laser scanners collect the whole prefecture’s physical data, which will be point cloud data being the copy of the prefecture. It is able to be used in virtual space and provided as open data.

In this paper, we would like to introduce case studies that improved productivity and created new value by using point cloud data as a foundation data of the digital twin.