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Pau · France · Europe

Pau Urban Digital Twin

Pau Béarn Pyrénées uses a connected urban model to bring geospatial, engineering, and design information together. Bentley documents planning, traffic scenarios, utilities, and public consultation. This listing links to the vendor’s implementation case study; a currently accessible public interactive viewer has not been verified.

Existing SCD Pau project illustration.
Existing SCD Pau project illustration.

Project identity & implementation

Implementation type
Unverified Twin Claim
Project description
Municipal digital twin
Responsible organization
Communauté d’Agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées
Providers
Bentley Systems
Lifecycle
Operational
Public access
Project Website / Case Study Only
Launch / deployment
Not confirmed
Coverage
31 municipalities across the agglomeration.

Use cases

Traffic scenarios, project visualization, stormwater and event planning.

Physical-system connection

No sensor or operational-data connection to the physical system is established by the retained evidence. Geometry, registers, modeled estimates or spatial layers alone do not establish that connection.

Decision workflow

See the documented use cases. A planning or visualization use case alone does not establish a maintained operational data workflow.

Classification basis

The source describes a twin or initiative, but the retained evidence does not establish a maintained sensor or operational-data connection. This classification describes evidence sufficiency, not proof that the project lacks such a connection.

Documented capabilities

Interactive 3D VisualizationGIS and Spatial DataBuildings and InfrastructureUrban PlanningSimulation and Scenario AnalysisTransportation and MobilityWater SystemsPublic Participation
Technologies
iTwin, iTwin Capture, OpenCities Planner
Data types
3D buildings, Spatial data
Data update / live data
Live sensor integration is not established by the retained evidence.

Results & limitations

Bentley reports annual video-production savings exceeding EUR 200,000 and 95% lower information-access costs; these are vendor-reported claims.

No public viewer endpoint verified. Vendor descriptions do not establish which data is publicly available today.

Evidence & links

Project Video

City of Pau - Transforming Cities | Bentley + BBC StoryWorks

Publisher: Bentley Systems, Inc. · Published

Project presentation

Produced for Bentley by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, this film introduces Pau’s urban digital twin and its intended role in planning, traffic management, economic development and resilience. It provides developer-sponsored project context rather than independent validation of the system’s current data connections or all reported operational benefits.

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Documentation link
Verified reachable · 2026-10-09Endpoint reachable. This checks link health, not complete 3D rendering.
Viewer link
No viewer URL recorded
Last detailed research
2026-10-08

Endpoint checks verify link health. They do not certify that every 3D layer, simulation, or data feed works. Public access and lifecycle are assessed separately.

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