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The growing trend of utilising the digital twin to improve urban solutions is evident across the world.
Rennes Metropole in France has developed a digital 3-D model that covers its entire territory, and the
city is using it to improve urban development, from simulating sunshine, to noise modeling, to tree
shadow impacts on buildings. Helsinki has also tested the city’s first digital twin in an effort to mitigate
the risks of climate change and improve energy efficiency. Through its digital twin, Helsinki has also
developed a creative virtual tour of the city to support tourism, which is called Virtual Helsinki. The
city is recreated in high-quality 3-D that enables users to visit the city and all of its tourist attractions
at any time of the year. Recently, the Government of Andhra Pradesh, in India, decided to invest USD
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6.5 billion to develop a new state capital, Amaravati, from the ground up, along with a digital twin of
the city. This ambitious project aims to utilise the digital twin to monitor the construction process
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in real-time; carry out climate change-related simulations, zoning, environmental and traffic analysis;
and create a digital twin user ID scheme that will serve as a single portal for government information,
applications and notifications.

Figure 5: Snapshot of Amaravati's digital twin (Source)

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