Victoria’s $37.4 million investment in a digital twin has paid off, and last week the statewide model went live.
After the initial phase of development was finished by the CSIRO and the Department of Environment, Land, Water, and Planning, the Digital Twin Victoria Platform was released.
The platform offers capabilities to measure items, explore locations as a virtual pedestrian, see changes over time, such as tree shadows, save data, share views, and compare datasets using CSIRO Data61’s TerriaJS framework.
I’m particularly hopeful that the platform will help develop a whole new community of digital twin users who will learn how to plan, model, interact, and share like never before – you don’t need to be a geospatial specialist.
The same goal is being pursued by other governments.
NSW decided to expand the Western Parklands digital twin statewide after a 2020 proof-of-concept was unveiled, and in December 2021, it committed $40 million to the project.
NSW makes advantage of Data61 as well.
Following the release of a prototype the previous year, Queensland announced in February 2022 that it would create a digital twin for the Sunshine Coast, Brisband, and Gold Coast. KPMG would develop the business case.
