3D Experience City is planned to be utilized in the development of the digital city model 'Virtual Ren'.

Dassault Systèmes announced that the city of Rennes, located in northwestern France, is adopting 3DEXPERIENCity. Through the development of digitally-based urban planning, the city of Rennes will optimize future projects, products, and services for its citizens.

The City of Rennes plans to utilize Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE City to develop 'Virtual Rennes,' a digital city model capable of effectively collecting and analyzing new data constantly generated from various data sources through system modeling. Through an accurate and reliable virtual city, officials, residents, business owners, developers, and service providers in Rennes will be able to visualize, simulate, and virtually experience the city's overall development, enabling them to collaborate more effectively in finding sustainable solutions to address emerging social problems.

Rennes, a major city in the Brittany region of France with a population of about 450,000, is the second fastest-growing city in France. Renovating and planning buildings, public service networks, urban transportation systems, and other social infrastructure in densely populated areas that are growing and evolving in complexity day by day is not an easy project.

Mayor Emmanuel Coué explained, “Rennes is a city with a rich and diverse heritage that has attracted over 65,000 students, in addition to families, professionals, and businesses. It requires long-term planning and decision-making to meet the needs of existing citizens as well as those who will move into the city in the future,” adding, “Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE CITY helps us collaborate closely with key stakeholders for the sustainable innovation of the city.”

Olivier Ribbé, Vice President of High-Tech Industries at Dassault Systèmes, stated, “Smart city initiatives offer the potential to predict and plan livable and resilient cities, but this is only achievable when countless amounts of data are successfully analyzed.” He added, “The 3DEXPERIENCE City solution enables urban planning and management to be intuitively connected to life. Through this, stakeholders in the city of Rennes can connect and interact across social, economic, political, and academic boundaries, and further experience and understand the possibilities and choices available to improve their quality of life.”

Meanwhile, in December 2014, Dassault Systèmes began developing 'Virtual Singapore,' a virtual city platform, in partnership with the National Research Foundation of Singapore as part of Singapore's smart nation policy, and is currently working on the project with the goal of completing it next year, in 2018. Singapore plans to build a knowledge-based economy that can improve the lives of citizens, create new jobs, and provide opportunities to enter new industries by utilizing various functions such as virtualization, simulation, and collaboration through the introduction of Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE City.