How AI is transforming the planning and design of the cities of the future

Engineering firm Arup details how artificial intelligence is now involved in almost every stage of urban design, from digital twins to traffic management.

Arup describes how artificial intelligence now supports almost all stages of urban planning: digital twins of entire neighborhoods, dynamic traffic management, generative design of buildings and infrastructure, energy optimization.

The firm also highlights the current limitations: many smart city projects still stumble over the insufficient quality of the data available to lead to reliable models, a technical as well as an organizational obstacle.