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Autodesk Announces Salzburg, Austria, as First Pilot City of Its Digital Cities Initiative
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Autodesk, Inc.
today announced it will be working with the city of
Salzburg, Austria, as the first pilot city in Autodesk's new Digital Cities
initiative. The announcement was made with the Mayor of Salzburg at the
AGIT 2008 conference in Salzburg.
The Digital City initiative is Autodesk's unique technology designed to
provide a collaborative environment for visualizing, analyzing and
simulating the future impact of urban design and development at a city-wide
scale. Autodesk has chosen to work with Salzburg, one of the great cultural
and historic centers of Europe, to help them integrate their city data into
a highly detailed 3D model of their city. This combination of city data
with realistic visualization and simulation tools can allow Salzburg to
view and interact with the city landscape, as well as analyze the impact of
future urban planning, tourism and economic development projects before
they are built.
"I am very pleased to announce the launch of this pilot project which
holds considerable significance for modern urban administration. With
Autodesk as a leader in design innovation and the University of Salzburg
drawing on its many years of experience in the geoinformation area, we have
two internationally acknowledged partners joining forces to realize this
future project. The digital city model will help cities like ours better
understand the impact of proposed urban projects," said Dr. Heinz Schaden,
Mayor of the City of Salzburg. "This type of pilot program will help us
better understand how we can create an attractive and sustainable future
for Salzburg and its people."
Scientific personnel from Salzburg University's Center of
Geoinformation (Z_GIS) are involved with the implementation of Digital City
for the city of Salzburg. "As a competence center for geoinformation, we
are pleased to be able to contribute to one of the most ambitious
innovation projects worldwide, and to be able to do this in our home town
of Salzburg. Thanks to this project, students can benefit from gaining
decisive knowledge advantages and participating companies in Salzburg can
develop services upon this new platform. In this way, the Z_GIS will be
strongly oriented to economic, scientific and administrative interfaces."
"Salzburg is one of the most progressive, well known cities in the
world and so they are a natural choice to participate as our first pilot
city. Our Digital City technology can help the city and community of
Salzburg communicate, collaborate, and deliver projects in a more effective
-- and sustainable -- way," said Lisa Campbell, vice president, Autodesk
Geospatial. "We are proud to work with them and our longstanding partner,
the University of Salzburg, to create a business tool that will help
Salzburg plan and operate sustainable development essential for tomorrow's
high-performance cities and economies."
About Digital Cities Technology
A Digital City allows stakeholders from the public, city government,
construction, and business communities to work together to understand how
many different proposals could impact the urban environment by experiencing
the future of the city before it becomes real.
The goal of this pilot program is for Salzburg to be able to bring
together 3D models of above and below ground features in an open platform
that supports secure and robust integration of CAD, building information
modeling (BIM), geospatial, civil engineering, and infrastructure data over
a wide geographic area. By combining this data with realistic
visualization, analysis and simulation tools, a Digital City can deliver an
intuitive and compelling way to understand the impact of plans and
proposals from any point in time and from any point of view.
For more information about Digital Cities, visit
http://www.autodesk.com/digitalcities.
About Z_GIS
The Center of Geoinformation is the largest scientific institute for
geoinformation in Austria and has been set up as a competence center at the
University of Salzburg. The most important fields of activity for the Z_GIS
are in the areas of research and development, the expansion of
international relations, the organization of symposia and professional
training and education. The primary task of the Center consists of
providing geoinformation support for a complete range of applications, in
close cooperation with the economy and public administration. The work of
the Z_GIS team extends far beyond the boundaries of university activities
and helps significantly to both present the University of Salzburg as a
marketable and competitive institution and to create synergies, thereby
helping to strengthen the city's location as a center for science and
research. Further information can be found at http://www.uni-salzburg.at.
About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc. is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the
manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment
markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk has
developed the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art digital prototyping
solutions to help customers experience their ideas before they are real.
Fortune 1000 companies rely on Autodesk for the tools to visualize,
simulate and analyze real-world performance early in the design process to
save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation. For additional
information about Autodesk, visit http://www.autodesk.com.
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