Head of the Department of Architecture of the SUSU Institute of Architecture and Construction Salavat Shabiev and Professor at the same department Viktor Koliasnikov, jointly with their colleague from Moscow Vladimir Spiridonov have developed a concept of a “smart urban planning”. The result has been published in the Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering of the collected papers by the Springer publishing house.
The main idea is that when planning settlements, their digital twins should be simultaneously created, and the urban analysis for that might be performed by artificial intelligence. At the same time, a settlement may not necessarily be regarded separately: it could also be part of the clusters in an urban agglomeration. In addition, it can be considered within the context of the social and economic life of its region.
Smart technologies based on big data analysis and the use of artificial intelligence are being developed all around the world today. Programmers and instrumentation engineers propose the ideas for smart street traffic control lights, recreation facilities, or devices for electric energy consumption control, based on the popular technology of the Internet of Things (IoT).
However, for the integrated implementation of the developments by “techies”, a methodology is required.
Together with his colleagues, the Head of the SUSU Department of Architecture Salavat Shabiev have developed such methodological principles based on the economic needs of regions and the sustainable development principles declared by the United Nations.
The principles aim at restoring the balance between the complexity and autonomy of the system, controllability and self-determination, structuredness and amorphousness, as well as achieve consistency and accomplishment of goals when working in a real time mode.
“How does it work?” Professor Salavat Shabiev explains. “For example, the balance between structuredness and amorphousness helps perform the zoning of territories in the system under planning, identify its subsystems and stable links between them, single out the most important objects of capital construction, and form the frameworks of spatial development. The issue of aesthetics is just as important in planning, as well as the succession in the development of the urban architectural creativity.”
The research by the Ural scientists and their colleagues also determines the mechanism of implementing the cyberphysical system of urban planning, city-wise information platform, digital twin and the system of urban planning self-monitoring.
Digital twins of cities, unlike the common general layouts, will allow to take the real situation into account (for the moment of beginning of construction of this or that object), to act dynamically, sift through the possible variants and generate forecasts using artificial intelligence.
Last year, Professor Salavat Shabiev was awarded the title of an Honorary Figure of Higher Education of the Russian Federation for his achievements in the scientific and teaching activities, training of qualified specialists and many years of dedicated work.