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Project PLATEAU | The Initiative of Digital Twin in Japan

• Extend the Japanese localized version of the standard specification (PLATEAU standard) based on OGC CityGML2.0 and expand the target objects to realize more sophisticated digital twin construction.
• Demonstrate data creation of undefined objects and extend PLATEAU standard specifications based on this
• Improvement and dissemination of surveying manuals for efficient maintenance of 3D urban models
• Study of standard specifications for urban planning GIS to ensure compatibility between 3D urban models and urban planning GIS
• Establish technologies for efficient and low-cost maintenance of the 3D city model LOD2, thereby encouraging local governments to expand data maintenance.
• Development of LOD2 automatic generation tool using AI etc. ‧OSS
• Establish a method for developing and updating 3D city models using various data sources such as crowdsourcing data, BIM models, and various ledger data held by local governments.

• Promote social implementation of use cases in various fields in the public and private sectors by demonstrating use case development of 3D city models utilizing advanced technologies, creating best practices, and promoting their horizontal deployment.
• Development of use cases for solving social issues / Development of use cases for creating private sector services
• disaster prevention & crime prevention / environment & energy / urban planning & community development / regional revitalization / tourism & contents / mobility & robotics

• Promote social implementation of 3D city models by supporting the development and utilization of 3D city models by local governments and the use of open data.
• Support the development and utilization of 3D city models by local governments (Support project for the construction of a digital infrastructure for urban spatial information)
• Arrangement of legal issues to promote the use of open data, etc.
• To create an environment where various players in the public and private sectors can easily access and utilize data, thereby enhancing the capability of 3D urban models and creating open innovation.
• PLATEAU VIEW modification to add new functions such as CMS
• Development of SDKs and other tools that can be used with Unity and other game engines
• Enhancement of technical tutorials, hackathons, etc.

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Transport ministry reviews safety at JAL after spate of incidents

Japan's transport ministry carried out an inspection at a Japan Airlines Co. office at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Friday following a series of incidents involving the company's aircraft, including one the previous day in which two jets touched wings while taxiing, officials said.

Four officials of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism entered the office, located next to an aircraft maintenance facility, to conduct an extraordinary audit involving hearings to assess the airline's safety procedures and processes.

The ministry will instruct JAL to rectify any problems if current arrangements are found to be lacking, they said.

"We take the (series of incidents at JAL) seriously and are making all-out efforts to recover trust in air safety," transport minister Tetsuo Saito told a press conference.

A spokesperson for JAL echoed the minister, saying the airline is taking the audit seriously and vowing to "rebuild trust" under the ministry's guidance.

On Thursday, a JAL aircraft that was preparing for departure touched wings with another of the company's planes that was taxiing to a gate. The tips of both planes' wings were damaged.

The incident followed another on May 10 at Fukuoka airport in southwestern Japan, where a pilot of a JAL aircraft failed to properly repeat the instruction of an air traffic controller and moved beyond a stop line leading to a runway without the control tower's clearance.

A JAL aircraft entered the wrong runway at a U.S. airport in November, and another crossed a stop line in February, also in the United States.

The ministry said the Fukuoka airport case will be addressed at a panel formed to discuss a fatal collision between a JAL passenger aircraft and a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda in January as it considers ways to prevent a repeat of the accident.

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