Breathing Cities: A Living Model of People and Place

这个项目的愿景就在名字中：呼吸的城市。“新冠肺炎”虽然带来了更清洁的空气，但从长远来看对解决空气污染问题几乎无济于事。世界领导人现在有机会规划一个不同的、更清洁的未来了。弹弓模拟计划利用这个项目来帮助市议会不仅培养他们对交通涌入和人们返回工作岗位的适应能力，而且帮助他们找到可持续的方法，对在城市工作和生活的人产生积极影响。我们的使命是利用我们作为一个社会拥有的数据，并通过我们的模拟即服务平台最大限度地发挥其潜力，以鼓励更健康、更有活力的城市走出新冠肺炎。我们的主要目标是让市议会做好准备，应对疫情对我们返回工作岗位时交通和人流造成的影响。通过使用现有数据进行预测，然后反复实时更新这些预测，我们希望从多个环境和经济角度向议会通报疫情情况，从而帮助它们监测事态发展并灵活地调整策略，从而为议会提供支持。重点将是显著加快我们与利兹市议会的现有合作伙伴关系，以找到有关交通、交通(包括快递和递送)和人员的解决方案，特别是在新冠肺炎之后交通和市民将如何在城市中流动，目的是让议会查看所有可能的交通和人流情况，并制定相应的计划。例如，帮助他们实施清洁空气区战略[2]，该战略将于2020年中实施，可能会对当地业务产生进一步影响，特别是快递员和交付系统。我们真正独创的模拟即服务平台是在利兹大学经过七年的研发开发而成的：*它实时运行，允许企业和组织立即采取行动*它可以在几天而不是几个月内使用流程图就能产生结果*最重要的是，它使用了一种“无编码”方法，既加速了高端模拟的好处，也使其大众化，为大大小小的企业带来了好处。这种互动预测、多目标优化和假设分析的新方法可能会带来世界第一：真正的“数字孪生兄弟”。[https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/the-deadly-link-between-Covid-19-and-air-pollution/][0]2.[https://www.leeds.gov.uk/business/environmental-health-for-business/air-quality][1][0]：https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/the-deadly-link-between-covid-19-and-air-pollution/[1]：https://www.这里的leeds.gov.uk/business/environmental-health-for-business/air-quality--ADDITIONAL信息--一旦我们展示了一个城市的第一个数字双胞胎，集成了来自广泛来源的数据，该项目将把重点转移到：1)在亚马逊上的企业部署(通过我们的亚马逊云服务激活合作伙伴会员)2)用户采用率，目标是在20213年第2季度之前将1,000名用户吸引到该平台上)在英国和北美的其他城市部署在SaaS平台中的自动复制通过使该解决方案更广泛地可用，并且最初是零成本的，这些组织和企业将可以访问该平台，这些组织和企业迫切需要访问这些工具来帮助他们响应新冠肺炎疫情并从中恢复。该项目还有可能彻底改变数字双胞胎的市场格局。

The vision for this project is in the name: Breathing Cities. "_The Covid-19 lockdown has led to cleaner air but will do little to address the issue of air pollution in the long run_ \[and\] _world leaders now have a chance to plot a different, cleaner future_" \[1\]. Slingshot Simulations plans to use this project to help city councils to not only develop their resilience to the influx of traffic and people returning to work but help them find sustainable methods of positively impacting people working and living in cities. Our mission would be to use the data we have as a society and maximizing its potential through our Simulation-as-a-service platform to encourage healthier, breathing cities coming out of Covid-19\.Our main objective is to brace city councils for the impact on, and as a result of, the traffic and people flow as we return to work following the pandemic. By using existing data to forecast and then iteratively, in real-time, update those forecasts, we want to support councils by informing them of the Pandemic situation from multiple environmental and economic angles thus helping them monitor developments and adapt their strategies in an agile manner.The focus will be on working to significantly accelerate our existing partnership with Leeds City Council to find solutions surrounding, transport (including couriers and delivery) and people, specifically how transport and citizens will move around the city following the wake of Covid-19 with the aim for councils to view all possible "what-if" scenarios of traffic and people flows and plan accordingly. For example, helping them with their Clean Air Zone Strategy \[2\], which is due to be enforced from mid-2020 and could have a further impact on local business, particularly couriers and delivery systems.Our truly original Simulation-as-a-Service platform, has been developed over seven years of R&D at the University of Leeds:* It runs in real-time, allowing businesses and organisations to act immediately* It can produce results within days not months using just flowcharts* And most importantly it uses a "no-coding" approach that both accelerates and democratises the benefits of high-end simulation for businesses big and small.This fresh approach of interactive forecasting, multi-objective optimisations, and "what-if" analysis could lead to a world first: A real "Digital Twin".1. [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/the-deadly-link-between-Covid-19-and-air-pollution/][0]2. [https://www.leeds.gov.uk/business/environmental-health-for-business/air-quality][1][0]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/the-deadly-link-between-covid-19-and-air-pollution/[1]: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/business/environmental-health-for-business/air-quality--ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HERE--Once we have demonstrated the first Digital Twin of a city at scale integrating data from a wide range of sources the project will change focus towards:1) Enterprise deployment on AWS (through our AWS Activate partnership membership)2) User adoption, aiming to drive 1,000 users to the platform during by Q2 of 20213) Automated replication in other cities across the UK and North America deployed in the SaaS platformBy making the solution more widely available, and initially at zero cost, the platform will be accessible to those organisations and businesses who desperately need access to these tools to help them respond to and recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. This project also has the potential to completely revolutionise the Digital Twin market landscape.