Digital twins present an opportunity to improve the way users envision, design, build, operate, and manage almost any asset in the built and natural environment.

We’ll unpack how digital twins are many and varied, but most importantly identify the attributes of the digital twins that most matter to you. WSP has been working with a range of state agencies nationally and internationally to consider, develop and deploy digital twins.

Large geo-spatial digital twins incorporating elevation, geology, zoning, cadastre and utility information enhance planning and design through large scale simulation of hypothetical transport links including path planning and path option evaluation. Origin-Destination can be used to identify areas of greatest needs and the likely userbase.

While building on-the-fly design optimisation, can provide solutions tailored to satisfy a variety of criteria (e.g. carbon content, speed of construction, etc).

Once built historical maintenance and utilisation Digital Twin data predicts the condition of network assets to optimise a typically multiple year planned maintenance programme, maximising level of service or network value, and preparing for future network demands.

Digital Twins will play a key role in enabling realtime traffic management and optimisation as well as short and long term planning in construction and operation of  our transport networks.  WSP has been exploring how digital twins could provide far-reaching awareness and analysis of incidents, congestion, delays used to improve roadway safety, traffic efficiency and sustainability of our networks.