November Blog Post on the Progress within the Consortium
Transitioning towards Resilient Multimodal Corridors using Digital Twinning
With the darker and wetter months slowly making their way to us, it is hard to imagine the summers during which drought might play its devastating role. But even though Europe seems to have more problems with too much water instead of too little water, we know for a fact that the undoable dry times will come as well. This keeps us alert and convinced that the building of the Digital Twin Tool is a necessity and should not be postponed. Luckily, this will not be the case! With Mohsen Bastani and Tommy Tao in the daily lead, the projects starts to shape itself more and more.
A few weeks ago Tommy gave an elaborate presentation on the steps taken during his research. It goes too far to include all the slides here, but the bigger outlines of his first year show the following – sometimes consecutive – ingredients; first there was the study with and on the stakeholders, which then resulted in the analysis of the requirements of the Digital Twin. This then leads to the variety of data (on infrastructure, on weather & water, on vessels & navigation, on cargo flows and lastly on regulations and safety management). A thorough analysis on these data and the particular importance of those to the different stakeholders, then leads to the first careful design of the Architecture of the Digital Twin.
On Tuesday 19 November, our colleague Mohsen will give his presentation (both hybrid and online) on the increased resilience of multimodal corridors, which the digital twin should ideally contribute to.
Then there was also the presentation of both Anne-Ruth Scheijgrond and Sebastian Piest on the Risk and Resilience Festival at the University Twente last week. During this one day full program, the various aspects of all what is risky and could/should be resilient is discussed. Especially for stakeholders in the field, this Festival is highly recommended to attend! November 2025 will be the next edition.
Lastly, herewith an explanation of the visual header of this blogpost. This is what our newest digital colleague ChatGPT thought what the office of Mohsen should look like.
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