UrbanTwin
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Project team:
Prof. Dr. David Atienza Alonso, EPFL
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
Center for Intelligent Systems, CIS
Center for Climate Impact and Action, CLIMACT
Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, CRIOS
Scientific Computing and Uncertainty Quantification, CSQI
Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory, DESL
Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, EML
Embedded Systems Laboratory, ESL
Laboratory of Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems, HERUS
Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering, IPESE
Parallel System Architecture Laboratory, PARSA
Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions, PL-LCH
Systems Control And Multiagent Optimization Research, SYCAMORE
Structural Xploration Lab, SXL
Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory, WIRE
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ
Digital Circuits and Systems Group
Forschungsstelle Energienetze, FEN
Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory, SPCL
System Security Group
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, EMPA
Dynamical Processes
Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewässerschutz, EAWAG
Department Urban Water Management
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL
Non-academic partners
Services industriels (SiL) – Ville de Lausanne
Funding: co-funding initiative by the ETH Board
Duration: 2023 – 2025
UrbanTwin is developing and validating a holistic tool to support decision-makers in achieving goals such as the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050 and the vision of climate-adaptive “sponge cities” in Switzerland. This tool will be based on a detailed model of critical urban infrastructures, such as energy, clean and waste water, buildings, mobility and their inter-dependencies while considering underlying socio-economic and environmental factors.
For interested readers further information is provided on the UrbanTwin webpage.