Getting started
To help you get started with Urban Strategy, we have prepared a series of tutorials that cover the core concepts and workflows of the platform.
These tutorials cover how to create, manage, and analyze scenarios in Urban Strategy, enabling to evaluate the impacts of policy measures without requiring any programming skills or model configuration.
Before continuing with the tutorials, its recommended to read the the introduction to Urban Strategy first.
About Urban Strategy
Urban Strategy is a predictive digital twin platform for cities and regions. It supports interactive, multidisciplinary “what-if” scenario planning, enabling faster decision-making, stronger stakeholder alignment, and more effective responses to societal challenges.
Cities are complex systems where policy decisions often create effects across multiple domains. Choices about housing, parking, mobility, or street design can influence how people travel, how safe streets are, how much noise residents experience, and how clean the air is. These impacts are interconnected and difficult to assess through intuition alone.
With Urban Strategy, city planners, residents, and policymakers can explore the consequences of different policy choices across housing, mobility, air quality, and noise. This helps identify effective policies and mitigate unwanted side effects before they arise.
Tutorial overview
To get the most out of Urban Strategy, we recommend completing the tutorials in the order presented below. Each tutorial builds on the knowledge gained in previous sections, helping you progress from initial access and platform navigation to scenario development and stakeholder engagement.
| Tutorial | Contents | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Account | Urban Strategy is restricted to authorised users. This tutorial explains how to create, access, and manage your account. | 5 min |
| 2: The Portal | Urban Strategy environments are accessed through a web portal. This tutorial introduces the available portals and explains how to navigate them effectively. | 5 min |
| 3: The Webinterface | The Webinterface is the most used workspace for creating, managing, and analyzing scenarios. This tutorial provides a guided tour of its main features, tools, and controls. | 20 min |
| 4: Creating scenarios | Learn how to implement policy measures, configure scenarios, and explore their impacts across mobility, air quality and noise indicators. | 20 min |