City visualisations and incentives Citizen awareness is one of the main problems related to urban planning and retrofitting projects. This aspect has been widely highlighted by stakeholders in the survey. With regard to large urban projects, citizens normally do not have the requisite knowledge about the subject project. Citizens are informed by websites of the municipalities and institutions involved in the project. Other communication approaches used by the public authorities to increase the citizen awareness are information boards and informative sessions associated with public events. One of the key findings of the survey study illustrated that communications are one way and that citizens do not have any particular tools capable of producing meaningful engagement within the communication process. Another important aspect that emerged from the survey related to the visualisation of the urban model generated before the development phase. Customers and citizens required this kind of information, but are often only provided 2D or 3D static images without detailed information and interactive dynamic capabilities to evaluate the environmental impact, social and economic aspect and energy performance.
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Market analysis
The D1.3 - Report on Technology Market Analysis – presents a technology market analysis with the scope of quantifying and qualifying the needs and expectations of the stakeholders in the ecosystem around the realisation of the INDICATE tool. The study identified possible target groups. These target groups are specific groups of people or organisations within the target market at which the INDICATE results are aimed at. Since these target groups are possible customers of the final decision support tool developed by the project, their needs and expectations are investigated. The INDICATE tool could be used by City Architects/Planners, Urban Planners, Consultancy Firms, the Public and Business Community, Manufacturers of materials, Energy Efficiency Professional, ICT/RET system suppliers and all companies involved in activities of RTD on Energy Efficiency domain. The following table (Table 1-1) provide a summary of these target groups, highlighting their needs and how the INDICATE project proposes to satisfy them with its application and results.
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