Crowd Modeling and Construction Design
The Walt Disney Company
The Challenge
Where should the roller coasters go? What should the room temperature be inside the Tower of Terror? How do you optimize crowd movements through a theme park? The folks at Walt Disney Imagineering, the team in charge of creating Disney theme parks, asked if we could help them reduce construction costs by 3% at their California Adventure park and others.
Our Insight
Knowing that Disney collected and cataloged all their park data assets, we wanted to make the best use of their existing data.
Our Approach
We decided to transform the way Disney looked at their theme parks. We took them from a series of CAD drawings to a scalable set of geospatial data that renders in 2 and 3-D.
Categories
- Data
- Geodatabase
- Responsive Design
Integral GIS worked with Walt Disney Theme Parks, to optimize their crowd movements and reduce construction costs by utilizing GIS.
The challenge was how to optimize crowd movements through a theme park.
We turned CAD drawings to a scalable set of geospatial data that renders in 2 and 3-D, allowing Disney to manage projects and foresee conflicts in space and time.
The Results
Our applications allowed them to visualize crowd movements using Monte Carlo simulations, as well as do hydraulic simulations for roller coasters. With a new geospatial map in hand, Disney was able to foresee conflicts in space and time between contractors, so as not to overlap and overbook areas between the various plumbers, electricians, and engineers.Explore our related projects
