News Toyota's Woven City to welcome first residents this year

Located at the base of Mount Fuji, Woven City uses "digital twin" technology to provide real-time analysis and predictive modelling of various features. While self-driving technology and mobility solutions are a significant focus of the project, residents can also interact virtually with multiple aspects of the city. According to the chairman, work is also underway to create a virtual avatar of Toyoda that will "live" on campus. [...] The first phase of Woven City covers approximately 50,000 square meters. Construction on phase two, which will cover about 52,000 square meters, has started, and the ground levelling is expected to be completed by the end of this year. Absmeier said that the entire city will eventually cover about 708,000 square meters, though the total number of phases currently remains unknown.

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There are three roads on the ground, including one for pedestrians and another for automated mobility, and traffic lights can be equipped with various sensors to measure the flow of people and other traffic. The logistics streets, which were constructed by excavating a layer of lava 10 meters underground, are connected to all the buildings, and experiments with automated delivery robots will be conducted. Woven City will eventually expand to about 700,000 square meters and house some 2,000 people from inside and outside the Toyota group. Some 100 Toyota employees and others are expected to move into the city in the fall of this year.

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