The team tasked with designing the first underground railway under the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing city knew it would be a delicate task, fraught with infrastructural peril. Tunneling several stories under Brisbane’s teeming metropolis, constructing expansive subterranean stations— what could go wrong? At the outset with service beginning in 2023, nobody knew that the effort would involve an ingenious application of a GIS, In Australia’s Fastest-Growing City, a Digital Twin Guides Rail Expansion creating a detailed and up-to-date 3D model of the project and the Queensland capital city above it, and an immersive digital twin that brings the project to life. A Rapidly Growing Queensland The Queensland government conceived the Cross River Rail project as a way to alleviate population pressures. By 2036, the South East Queensland metro area is projected to add another 1.5 million residents (a number that by itself would 170 An aerial image of downtown Brisbane, Australia, shows the site of the new Roma Street subway station.
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