Planning Transit Networks and Land Use in Expanding Middle Eastern Mega Cities: Tackling Growth and Mobility Challenges

Middle Eastern mega cities are growing at unprecedented speed, with projects like NEOM and Riyadh Metro reshaping urban landscapes. Urban planners face challenges integrating transit networks with evolving land use, managing diverse spatial data, and keeping zoning maps up to date.

Join product experts Marta and Dorota for a live two-part webinar series and see how MicroStation simplifies planning workflows. From resolving spatial data mismatches to automating map updates and zoning tasks, learn practical techniques that save time, reduce errors, and support sustainable, transit-oriented urban growth. Deliver accurate, Smart City-ready plans that keep pace with rapid urban expansion.

Accurate transit network design and land use planning rely heavily on integrating spatial data from multiple sources, often with differing coordinate systems and formats.

This session dives into the technical challenges faced by urban planners in Middle Eastern cities when reconciling diverse datasets. It shows how MicroStation workflows help maintain data precision, consistency, and interoperability by highlighting essential methods to overcome spatial data mismatches, including best practices in georeferencing, layer management, and ensuring seamless interoperability between GIS and CAD platforms. Attendees will gain practical workflows to maintain data precision and consistency critical to informed decision-making in urban planning.

What you will learn: How to unify spatial data from diverse GIS and CAD sources using MicroStation's coordinate system management tools. How to align CAD and GIS datasets accurately with advanced georeferencing techniques. How to manage and organize multiple levels of data efficiently with MicroStation's comprehensive levels control. How to integrate common GIS formats (e.g., SHP, GeoTIFF) seamlessly into your workflow. How to automate quality control checks to detect and resolve spatial inconsistencies. How to leverage Google Map 2D and 3D data in your planning projects.