Digital Twin – more resources
Digital twin can be a game changer for sustainable urban planning. This technology allows cities not just to create virtual models, but to run simulations of new policies or infrastructure projects and preview their potential impacts before making decisions in the real world. This page highlights the most recent literature and information on how cities, countries and industries worldwide are harnessing digital twin.
Publications

2024
- Co-creation Processes and Urban Digital Twins in Sustainable and Smart Urban District Development – Case Kera District in Espoo, Finland – European Commission
- Digital twins for managing bridge climate change adaptation – European Commission
- A Review of Digital Twin Technologies for Enhanced Sustainability in the Construction Industry – MDPI
- Digital Twins for the Built Environment – National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
- Digital twins: When and why to use one – McKinsey
- Foundational Research Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins – National Academies Press
- Tech Report: Digital Twins – Interamerican Development Bank
- Guidance for the Integration of Digital Twins in Data Spaces – Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation
2023
2022
- Digital Twin Cities: Framework and Global Practices – WEF & CAICT
- Resolving Key Post Merger IT Integration Challenges with a Digital Twin – Forward Networks
- Use a Digital Twin For Impeccable Cyber Command Readiness Inspections – Forward Networks
- An Information Management Framework for Environmental Digital Twins (IMFe) – NERC Open Research Archive
- The Digital Twin of Everything– BCG&walt.id
- 2022 Digital Twin Global Survey Report – ALTAIR
- Drivers for Digital Twin Adoption in the Construction Industry: ASystematic Literature Review – Elsevier
- Digital Twin Cities: Framework and Global Practices – WEF and CAICT
- Digital Twins: Adding Intelligence to the Real World – Capgemini Research Institute
- Enhancing Innovation in Telecom with Digital Twins – Harvard Business
- The 2022 Digital Twin Report – Siemens
- State of Digital Twin 2022 – PTC
- Digital Twin Framework for Enabling Serial Construction – Frontiers
2021
- Is digital twin technology supporting safety management? A bibliometricand systematic review – MDPI
- Digital Twin models in industrial operations: State‐of‐the‐art and future research directions – Wiley
- Archetypes of Digital Twins – Springer
- Sustainability requirements of digital twin-based systems: a metasystematic literature review – MDPI
- Digital twin: Origin to future – MDPI
- Change2Twin project – Change2Twin