PLATEAU Municipal Exchange Meets in Sakai as Model Rollout Reaches 380 Cities
The exchange has moved from teaching municipalities how to build 3D urban models to addressing why so many built models go unused, which is now the stated bottleneck in the national program.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism held the fourth PLATEAU municipal exchange in Sakai, Osaka, from June 3 to 5, 2026, expanding the program from two days to three. An official reported 60 new municipalities and five private projects selected for 2026, with about 380 cities slated for 3D urban model development. Five municipalities presented use cases spanning embankment regulation, disaster response and fire training.
The fourth PLATEAU municipal exchange ran three days in Sakai instead of the previous two, a change organizers tied to moving past classroom-style training into discussion and hands-on tool sessions. Municipal staff from Osaka Prefecture's Sakai, Susami in Wakayama, Maizuru in Kyoto, Matsue in Shimane and Fujisawa in Kanagawa presented work. Sakai, which finished citywide model development in fiscal 2024, described systems for embankment regulation work, ground displacement comparison, autonomous bus simulation, pedestrian space planning and, from fiscal 2026, a fire department driving simulator for emergency response training.
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