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A Digital Twin for a World Heritage Destination
2025 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC)
Year (definitive publication)
2025
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
Sintra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of Portugal's most popular tourist destinations. However, as a historical urban center, it suffers from its success: overcrowding and traffic bottlenecks.
Digital Twins (DT) have proven instrumental in monitoring, predicting, and prescribing improvement actions to mitigate the effects of these phenomena.
We present an in-development DT system designed to manage traffic and overcrowding scenarios in this town, which can be applied to other analogous heritage sites. The DT overall planned architecture, principal components, primary data sources to feed the system, envisioned simulation techniques, human-machine interfaces, main functionalities and purposes, and an initial prototype for destination management organisations are presented.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., under ISTAR-Iscte projects UIDB/04466/2020, UIDP/04466/2020, and MONICROWD/2024.07624.IACDC (DOI: 10.54499/2024.07624.IACDC).
Keywords
digital twin,tourism,heritage,crowding,traffic
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
- Earth and related Environmental Sciences - Natural Sciences
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering - Engineering and Technology
- Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| UIDB/04466/2020 | Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology |
| MONICROWD/2024.07624.IACDC | Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology |
| UIDP/04466/2020 | Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology |
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