Urban planning is focused on exploring built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities. Urban planning takes all aspects of the environment into consideration including plans for safety, aesthetics and common sense placement of everything from houses to factories, roads and transportation networks to retail locations and more.
Challenges & Trends
Today, urban planners are turning to the use of modeling and simulation technology in their planning, design, and development projects to help make their work more efficient. With the right tools in place it is possible to explore potential design solutions and evaluate alternatives rapidly and in more detail. Results of the planning and design process can be illustrated visually, eliminating the need for complex blueprints and charts. Instead the client or community can be presented with a digitally accurate and realistic representation of the proposed development. This helps improve their ability to make decisions and move plans forward.
The Solution
Presagis delivers cutting-edge modeling and simulation software products that are used by urban planners to design realistic virtual environments and models including buildings, roads and terrain. Presagis software also allows for animation of the environment providing the ability to add crowds and crowd movement, include road traffic and movement, and to program weather changes or time of day conditions so planners can see how these factors can affect their design plans.
A number of Presagis software products can be used by urban planners, stand-alone or part of an integrated development workflow, to develop visually realistic 3-D representations:
- 3-D modeling software : Create virtual terrain, model buildings, trace new roads and railways, or integrate any environmental factor
- Simulation software : Animate the virtual environment by introducing population or change parameters including time, speed of time, weather conditions, emergency management, traffic jams, road blocs, etc. Integrate these items into the scenario to produce a realist view of the design and leverage results for analysis and implementation of improvements.
- Visualization software : View the environment using different points of reference and walk- or fly-threws. Viewers will better understand the design when they can actually see it as it will be in real life.
