SCRI Research Seminar on Facility-based accessibility: A new research agenda by integrating facility choice behaviors into the evaluation of place-based accessibility

Research Institute / Research Centre Seminar

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Date

20 Sep 2024
Organiser

Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute
Time

10:00 - 11:00
Venue

ZN607

Speaker

Professor Bi Yu CHEN

Summary

The idea of a Digital Twin has become ever popular as a way of using computation to improve real systems in a variety of domains. The notion that we can build more than one model of the same thing has taken off dramatically as computer power has increased exponentially to the point where what were once very complex large-scale models often taking hours or even days to run are now possible to implement in a matter of seconds. In this sense, we can run digital models over and over again varying their structure in such a way that we can explore the solution space of the real system using the analogy of the twin. We will outline what we now mean by a digital twin, showing how we can use different kinds of models to increase our understanding of our real systema and enabling us to invent new forms for their future. We will develop these ideas primarily in the context of city planning but extending our twins to different scales, to different models of the same real system but from different vantage points and coupling twins together to develop more comprehensive modelling. We will illustrate examples for London as well as our digital twin for British cities and we will conclude with some speculations on the fact that our future world will be composed of multiple twins, multiple models of the same thing, that are rapidly becoming the norm (Batty, 2024)

Keynote Speaker

Professor Bi Yu CHEN

State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China

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Prof. Bi Yu CHEN is a full Professor at State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China. His major research interests span Urban Informatics, GIS for Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transport Geography, Behavior Geography and Spatiotemporal Big Data Analytics. He is the author of more than 70 articles in the leading SCI/SSCI journals of Geography, GIS and Transportation fields, such as Annals of AAG, JTG, IJGIS and TR Part A-E. He is an Associate Editor of several leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Travel Behaviour and Society, and Transportmetrica B. He also serve as the chairman for ISPRS working group on Geocompuation and Geosimulation.

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