Transport authority plans to utilise 'digital twin' to track city's mobility

CUMTA to define specific zone to pilot initiative that will map travel patterns, aid planning

- C SHIVAKUMAR @Chennai

THE Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA) is planning to create a digital picture of how Chennai travels by using 'digital twins' of Chennaiites, which will be generated using real-time anonymised data of smartphone users.

The data, shared by telecom providers, will be used to recreate mobility patterns in the city - where trips begin and end at the zonal level (eg. ward, neighbourhood, corridor), time of day (peak vs non-peak), day of the week (weekday vs weekend), trip duration, distance, etc.