Take a look at the latest news related to digital twins and sustainable development goals from DT4SDG and around the world.
Chia-Yen is a 3rd-year student of the DT4SDG working on multimodal data for modelling traffic in smart cities. She secured the first prize in the IEEE ITSS student competition in Pedestrian Behaviour Competition using an innovative ensemble learning method that is lightweight and privacy-preserving.
Chia-Yen will be presenting her work at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC 2023.
nature - book review - 11 September 2023
The influential and ambitious United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were the brainchild of two unsung Colombian women: Paula Caballero and Patti Londoño. The two policymakers conceived the idea and persuaded the rest of the world to back it — and to let scientists design the goals free of political interference, as much as was practical. Nature’s Ehsan Masood reviews their recent memoir, along with that of Richard Jolly, whose long career as a development economist at the UN helped to inform the SDGs. Read more here.
Check the first draft version of a compendium called ‘Strong Sustainability by Design’ developed by the Planet Positive 2030 Initiative: Planet Positive 2030 (ieee.org). The document was launched on June 14th with a request for public input, insights, and comments. Find out more here.
nature - editorial - 22 August 2023
In a rapidly urbanizing world, what happens in cities matters — and sustainability success stories show what can be achieved when researchers and policymakers work together. Read the full article here.
The Guardian - 20 August 2023
Exclusive: Fears quiet-street measures that have been part of traffic planning since 1960s could be scrapped in culture war. Read more here.
Fujitsu Limited - Tokyo, April 19, 2023
Demonstration offers “digital rehearsal” of environmental and economic footprint to offer holistic overview of impact on the community. Read more here.
M. Jaber - Front. Comms. Net., 03 July 2023
The United Nations drafted an agenda for 2030 to achieve sustainable development with 17 well-defined goals which are an urgent call for action requiring collaboration and innovation across countries and organisations. The year 2023 marks the midpoint toward fulfilling the proposed agenda but the world is still behind in attaining any of the set goals. This article discusses the opportunities offered by the rise of the Internet of Things and advances in artificial intelligence in ushering these goals with tangible use cases that relate to health, energy, and cities. Moreover, the article exposes the challenges that emerge from applying these technologies in the realisation of sustainable development goals (SDG) with underlined risks related to bias, security, data privacy, and the multi-objective optimisation of often competing SDGs. Read full article here.
Tom Seymour - Smart Transport., 23 June 2023
Heriot-Watt University and the University of Glasgow are working on creating a “digital twin” to fully simulate the UK’s entire transport infrastructure to help shape future decarbonisation strategy. The Twinning for Decarbonising Project (Transit) was launched by Jesse Norman, Transport Technology and Decarbonisation Minister at the inaugural Connected Digital Twins Summit by Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place leadership, and the Digital Twin Hub. Read the full article here.