TWIN CITY2023-10-03T15:42:22+03:00
Climate-aware risk and resilience assessment of urban areas under multiple environmental stressors via-tiered digital city twinning

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TwinCity aims to leverage existing tools and services (e.g., climate models, modelling of extreme events and their impacts, EU services, etc.), and develop novel technologies (Layered-Block Models, City Digital Twins) to deliver an integrated socioeconomic resilience assessment platform, addressing multi-hazard risk understanding, better preparedness, faster, adapted and efficient response, and sustainable reconstruction of urban areas. Taking advantage of the unique opportunity offered by the COVID-19 quarantine to calibrate for the effect of business shutdown and recovery, TwinCity offers a robust digital twin of an urban area that accounts for local socioeconomic and business ecosystems to run end-to-end simulations of multiple “what-if” disruption scenarios. The final goal is to offer an open-source basis upon which performance, risk and resilience can be assessed by stake-holders, to be tested with a large-scale pilot study of an island Greek town subject to earthquake and weather/climate hazards.

Project Funding

Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation
2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty Members and Researchers
N. 02515

 Collaborators

National Technical University of Athens
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Resilience Guard GmbH
RED, Risk Engineering + Development SpA

 Time Period

Feb 2022 – July 2025

Relevant Publications

TwinCity Members

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