 Hello everyone and welcome to the 10 o'clock breakout session of the open simulator community conference 2014 Has a reminder to our in-world and web audiences You can view the full conference schedule on our website at conference dot open simulator org And you can post your questions in local chat on the uStream chat or tweet your comments using the hashtag oscc14 This hour we are happy to introduce Krister Lindström who will be presenting for dial Dialogue and sentra and open sim for real-time planning in four Swedish cities Krister Lindström is the founder of the Institute for Sustainable Transportation in Sweden co-founder of the International Institute of Sustainable Transportation USA The General Transportation Fund USA and Centra Incorporated USA and for dialogue AB Sweden Krister was earlier the main project manager for Uppsala PRT study financing simulation visualization and Implementation is currently doing 4d simulation and financing analysis for ATN Light rail and other modes of transportation for cities in the US and Sweden Welcome Krister Lindström Thank you so much I'm really happy to be here and I've been listening to a few of presentations earlier. It's been very interesting I have to say and it's do you guys are doing a wonderful job at this conference Okay, so let's go on with it My name is Krister Lindström and I work primarily with city development using the open sim based Technology we have added technology called etc. And we're selling it mainly here in Sweden now under the brand for dialogue So what we call it is city development using 4d models So What is the idea behind this? Well, it is to have an updated quality model a 4d model of a city for development and it changed concerning the urban landscape Transportation energy use etc And we are using some what we call in-situ technology It's basically open sim and on top of that the series of functions and processes to create a virtual city In a in a way that is believable for all stakeholders I might add also, it's okay if anybody has a question doing this presentation to ask away. I it's I don't mind being interrupted So what is the benefits in in in this kind of technology in urban planning as you well know There's a lot of 3d models out there for different kinds of projects and I think all of you More or less have seen different kind of movies and 3d and and and Animations or or just pictures or different kind of development going on near you where you where you live and This is fine. There's nothing wrong with it. However It's very difficult for people at the early stage to really understand what this is all about It's also pretty expensive to do those models and the main problem doing 3d models Is you make them once and then you throw them out the window and never use them again So what we do is that we make real-time Visualization of volumes and concepts as early stages at much earlier than most developers and cities do and This means that all stakeholders be aware of each other's intentions instantly and at an early stage So even if it's just an idea or possibly or maybe developing a land Piece of land somewhere you can actually make a mark there that with a simple volume or simple box or whatever that there is an intention there and This also simplifies coordination between engineers and architects Today, there's a lot of people involved in the process from the early idea to develop land until the very end of the development when you go into facilities management and there's a lot of Mistakes and and problems in that process and it can take 10 to 20 years from ID to actually build something and start managing it It's important to have a constant flow over time of information Since we're using open sim we get for free more or less Simulation of shadows light sources and day and night and this is something that is usually you have to add extra Consultants and people involved in those processes, but this is kind of given with this Already at the early early stage just with a simple box of volume You can early on see how many stories can I go up it before I start to have a shadow impact on the close neighbors, for example We also added traffic management and simulation for traffic with physics and sound You will see an example of that later on For example, we had done it very early in this when we started this company for HN or PRT systems And we recently did it for a city of Uppsala using for for light rail and also one thing that is growing quite fast is built-in surveys and voting technology So we can put in alternatives into the model Alternately a B or C in real time so people can actually go in and see the different options And this is very interesting in in in early stage where you want to early on see What is it? What is possible for this side here and the different kind of buildings or even different kinds of transportation systems? It can be pretty simple things How do we limit transportation and car traffic and on on a busy street or the other way around? How can we increase it and there can be different kind of options? So what is it what we do? Well? We Coordinate all the documents and drawings from all stakeholders. So that's where we start we make a Model of the city and we take all the data we can get and put it into the model As we've been doing that we stand start to actual project management and All the changes and updates and insertions of different kind of IDs and concepts into the model We make sure that those changes get everybody involved get messages and we distribute those measures Messages and any follow-up to the stakeholders We of course to training and supporting Users on ongoing basis that there are very different levels of understanding But I had most of the people understand the technology But a lot of them actually need some help especially with simple things like navigation And of course we are constantly developing new tools and processes to increase quality improved modeling speed And this is crucial for us as the first projects we did early on took a long time And even if the result was pretty good It took way too long to make a business out of it So I'm going to give you four city examples and the first example is the city of Sertetelya Sertetelya is a community or a town Approximately half an hour south of Stockholm, Sweden it has about hundred thousand inhabitants and They are one of the nine core regions around Stockholm that has been decided politically To to be emphasis on their their development Transportation into a more much more suburban green area and actually city core And what you see in this picture in front of you is one of the key parts of the city It's kind of a place where God that was kind of forgotten place It's an old girl school at the top of a hill called the Orion Hill This was a key part of the city that they really need to get developed So on the left side you see a white building That has been drawn by an architect and when we started this project. We were mainly talking only to the developer As this project grew we got more and more interest from the city and now we have a lot of different Buildings and several projects ongoing in the same model When we did this we did this very much together with students and University of Javelin north of Stockholm We have a set of students. There are seven students that have specialized in city development and urban planning When we did that we started we're taking photos And and how to to work this and It was myself you see photo to the left myself with three of the students and we took photos We did a survey of the entire area used maps It made a lot of notes and then we all went back home and started to do the action modeling in The lower right to see a photo. It's actually Cecilia and Johanna Who were invited? We were actually invited by the city to do a presentation a couple of months later in front of 10,000 people who were having a big party in the middle of town And the city decided to raise a tent quite a big tent Where we put in Oculus Rift to put in screens to put in projectors over three different types of presentations live Movie and through Oculus Rift live To show the work we done it was it was so many people wanting to see this and participate in the development of the city We had to make a long queue actually it was pretty interesting to see the interest and the city was a very very happy with this We got over 500 people participating and commenting on the development of the city using our models It was a great three days we had there Okay, so Another project is in the city of Uppsala. This is actually the first place where we started doing modeling professionally and After a couple of years we discussed with the city the possibility of using the model to put in a light rail So this study was very different from sir to tell you in this case It was all about how could we put in that light rail with the new stations and new rail a couple of options What you see here is actually one of the typical examples of this study It the rail is not supposed to go live left and right It's actually two options and the politicians wanted to know what options do we have and what impact does those options have in the model So we did model light rail going both left and right in this corner of the city It was interesting in many ways and this was actually used to make more In-depth study of the actual cost of the system and thanks to this They were able to one of the other consultants to pinpoint a lot of trouble and problem areas They haven't anticipated before and it all ended up about them one and a half month ago into an extent extended study to the city with the financial analysis recommendations for where to put in the track options for lighting and the risk zones where people might get killed or hurt if you didn't take Some precaution regarding safety. This was a very interesting project This was also by the way done mostly by students and myself another much Simpler example, but still very interesting is was converting a street in very close to Stockholm only 10 minutes out of the Stockholm city Core from being a very busy Problematic road it's going straight through the most central core of the city where you had a lot of cars and buses and The street really needed some kind of rejuvenation and there was a lot of discussions at city hall how to do this So we were invited to do a virtual for this study of the street and what we did We put in a new tiles on the street a new pavement A cup of new flowers and a lot of different options in how to see this and how it could look like This will probably be extended this project next year and we're looking forward to that with a larger model Okay, and then We have the most recent project And this is by far the most extensive project. We're having right now. It's still ongoing. It's also been extended with the second phase This is the the 15 different developers that needed to coordinate all the the projects and the new construction in the city The total investment just for this area is close to one billion dollars. There's a quite a big responsibility we have here And our job is to continuously update the model with new ideas from the architects new concepts We are about to change the roads and how they could be there We're about to change how the public transportation should be We expect next year to start to add solar and other modes of sustainable energy into the area, etc We also recently got the second order as I said for the second phase at the station area We're going to have a completely new transportation hub With the high speed rail station and designed by quite a famous architect. Her name is zaha hadid And she's based in london so What about The companies it's for dialogue and citra and the citra to begin with is actually the technology company that citra ink is based in california and It was the result of the technology we developed together with university california arvine, of course crystal opus and We have done that and still doing technology development, of course For dialogue is based in sweden is and is based on the technology. We don't do any technology development at all but what we do we use the technology And push it as far as we can to use it for collaboration and for developers and cities interested in how to develop the city core But we were established in september 2013 today. We have about three time full time employees And we're using a lot of students in our work We have ongoing project both in sweden. USA. Most of them are in sweden, but those are the proof project in the united states It's led mostly by me and johan here in sweden and by mr. Ron swanson in the us in santa cruz We're happy to say we were interviewed by maria korolov Almost two years ago and she asked me How much revenue we expect to see I said about 250,000 and I'm happy to say that actually what we reached And we expect to double that every year from 2015 to 2017 And I see no reason to doubt that right now. It's it's quite an expanding business and we're very happy about it We're also looking into different kind of parking programs for modeling of cities around the world because we think this technology Has a not only a very nice potential a bit at all So it could be something that a lot of people can be involved with and actually make quite a lot of money out in different places in the world um It's just very brief the technology overview most of you people are probably pretty versed and Very knowledgeable in this, but I still just want to go through it So we use open source for all basic applications like open sim for example We have additional code for city development and planning It's of course server based with the with the viewer client We never ever charge for software. It's a very very strict policy. We have we will never ever charge for software It's based on windows and mac and of course can be used with locals rift Our revenue model is based on the access of the models the training and support So it's actually developers cities architects, etc. That are paying us to do this We have recently developed are on the way to develop two extra viewers one You know about I think was mentioned by krista yesterday an idea I got a couple of months ago the onlook viewer And this is something we hoped it should be used by a lot of people in the future And I hope is going to be Be developed and ready pretty soon And we also have a simplified webgeal enabled browser viewer for small simulations That is not entirely ready yet, but we hope to have that available in the near future also As with open sim of course full immersion technology simulation visualization service and more Real-time simulation sound light movement and communication just like open sim And we're very happy to have this Ability to of scale from go from 10th from an inch up to several square miles The biggest model we have today is a couple of square miles. I don't know exactly the measurement space pretty big So Why are we doing all this? Well? there is an pretty strong sense of urgency in what why we do this and why we involved in this because We think that today world is in strong need of To use our resources in a much better way We need really to take better care of both ourselves and Most of the things around us how we live how we move around And how we use energy land water, etc This is really important And if we can also observe that the total world population is actually slowly stabilizing Um, so and people are moving more and more into urban areas and and they're more and more becoming middle class um, even if you go to smaller villages in middle of africa or or um, some places that were quite, uh Unreachable in south america three decades ago. You will find computers tv internet connections and all it's pretty It's a big change we're seeing here And um, the technology of communication is down through computers phones and tablets are ready available And they're using it and of course for for communication above all um The current tools for planning and participation in any urban development process They're all they're all those tools today with very few exceptions They're made for us from forest sprawling world with endless resources They're not made for today's challenges and today's reality And and we do know that the way we live have to change and that means also the tools really need to change That's really important So we do this because we believe that working with open and transparent technology Young motivated students and experienced developers is a powerful way to address the needs of today and in the future We strongly believe that's only through shared power and democracy processes. The society can develop into sustainable place for all That's the only way can do And we can get this going. We have a lot of things you people to solve all over the world I just want to have a final note Um You people behind open sim and the entire open source community. You're just plain amazing You know, there's so much on selfish works that has been done And the work in citra the technology we developed on top of it and the sales and and the Communication process that we have the developers and cities for from for dialogue We would never exist And we're not able to do what we do today. We're extremely thankful and we will do all our power to give back to this community So um with this I would like to say thank you and open up for questions. Thank you Thank you, krister. Uh, I do have one question. Uh, you said you have some youtube videos Who's your president? Oh, yeah, thank you. Oh, yeah. Good. Good reminder. So This this is a lot of talk about what is done, but I think it's much better if you see Um, so the the the link is I don't know how to type this. Can I type it into the chat window? Maybe um, so if if if you search for in citra videos At youtube you will find a channel Where you can see this I see a couple of questions who are the students So right now the students that are involved in this is there are several universities It's university of upsala in north of stock on University of javla in in even further north And those two universities are either linked to city development an architecture or environmental issues We have kth in stock home From the old society of development and urban urban innovation Faculty of urban innovation. We also have the gaming university of upsala that's located with an outlet in the island of gotland in in sweden In the u.s. We have the city Um, sorry the university of san josei san josei state university Uh, in the past we also had some some connections, of course with uci university california arvine and christa Uh, we have today just about to start a project with university california santa cruz And we expect also in the near future to be involved with the project university of illinois and southern illinois With a couple architectural and city development And also transportation development students We expect to have way more and many more universities and different kind of faculties around the world to be involved also pretty soon Okay, excellent. Are There any more questions? Please send us some questions through the local chat and twitter. Are you streamed? Okay, I don't really have much more. So if there is and not any more questions. I I think we can round this up Okay Thank you christa lindstrom for a terrific presentation As a reminder to our audience, you're welcome. It was I really enjoyed it You can see what's coming up on the conference schedule at conference dot open simulator dot org In this room, the next session will be does open sim have the critical master survive And again, thank you christa lindstrom for an excellent presentation. We really appreciate it enjoyed it We'll be back shortly in the next session. You're welcome