A 3D model of Kazan to be created by the end of 2024

The digital twin allows to make decisions in planning and in the current economic operation

A test 3D model of one of the residential areas of Kazan was presented to the Mayor of the city Ilsur Metshin – the information system helps in planning the construction of residential buildings and social facilities, monitoring the implementation of urban programs and making management decisions. The Mayor instructed to implement this project by the end of 2024.

Deputy Head of the Executive Committee of Kazan Radik Shafigullin reminded that since 2019 a digital model of the city is being created in the capital of the republic of Tatarstan - a comprehensive municipal geoinformation system. Now the amount of data accumulated in it allows us to move on to the next stage – the creation of a 3D model of the city. This is an exact copy of Kazan with buildings, infrastructure facilities and utilities.

Sergey Gevorkov, a representative of the HelgiLab company, who cooperates with the administrations of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Kaluga, shared the details about the work of the 3D model. A 3D model of the Art City residential complex was created as an example. For this purpose, aerial, satellite and ground surveys were used, cartographic data and information about various facilities were correlated. As a result, an exact copy of the territory was created.

Data is also loaded from the Integrated Municipal Geoinformation System, which already contains information on land plots, territorial and functional zoning and specially protected zones. “Based on this, we can get not only graphical information, but also compare semantic data in real time,”- Sergey Gevorkov said.

As a result, you can quickly get completely different information: from the area of the asphalt pavement to the condition of the playground in a particular yard. The model allows to estimate the location of a new object on a certain territory. It allows to calculate the required amount of financial costs for a particular job: facade repair and roadbed replacement. Thus, the 3D model helps to make management decisions, including in urban planning and planning of territory development.

Following the example of Moscow, the data of the 3D model is updated globally every six months, and if necessary, it is possible to make local updates to some specific territory. This will allow monitoring the implementation of important city and republican programs.

Following the meeting, Ilsur Metshin instructed to present the first results by June 2024, and to complete the development and implementation of the project by the end of next year.

The meeting was attended by the first Deputy head of Kazan Denis Kalinkin, Vice Mayor Evgenia Lodvigova, head of the Executive Committee Rustem Gafarov, Chief of Staff of the Executive Committee of the city Bulat Aleyev and heads of administrations of districts of the city.

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A 3D model of Kazan to be created by the end of 2024