SUDPLAN

The project aims to create a platform to observe future climate and impacts on urban environments in 3D. This project allows a visualization by the different actors and thus a start of prevention and action. The tool is based on the history of climatic events and their impacts on urban planning, on climatic and physical predictions such as atmospheric emissions, rainfall, runoff, etc., as well as on the impact of climate change. Unlike other tools, this one uses forecasts not at the global level but at the European and city scales. This makes it possible to capture microclimates for example.

The main advantage of this tool is that it allows the town planner not to waste time meeting each of the forecasting bodies: hydrology, air, etc. In addition, it allows to group together all the parameters. The system was field tested in four pilot trials in Stockholm in Sweden, Wuppertal in Germany, Linz in Austria and over a 150-km2 area around the city of Prague in the Czech Republic. (http://sudplan.eu/about-sudplan/pilot-applications/sudplan-pilot-applications-1.11738)”Applications included mitigating storm-water flooding, reducing sewer-system overflows, detecting and improving air quality and assessing how air pollution is affecting the quality of life of urban and suburban residents.”