Bus Rapid Transit

Bus Rapid Transit exhibit is a cloud and data-base driven platfrom which allows remote participation, database augmentation and high-end complex visualization. Visitors build 3D physical scale models out of LEGO bricks and a series of projectors mounted directly above the models project digital information onto the physical model. When acting as an urban observatory, the exhibit illustrates urban flows, like vehicular and pedestrian traffic, energy consumption in buildings, wind, aggregate sunlight, shadows cast on buildings, as well as geo-located social media. Visitors interact with the tool by moving bricks to alter urban design and/or land uses the urban flow implications of those changes are calculated via simulation. Those implications, like pedestrian flows, can then be visualized, projected back on the model, and summarized in another display.