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.
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Publications
2025
2024
- Digital twins: Capturing value from renewable hydrogen megaprojects – McKinsey
- Digital twin opportunities with leveraging graph neural networks on real network data – ITU Journal
- 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
- Where physical and digital meet: Digital twin for resilient infrastructure – Deloitte
- A Review of Digital Twin Technologies for Enhanced Sustainability in the Construction Industry – MDPI
- Connected Digital Twins for the Public Good – BSI
- Digital twins: The next frontier of factory optimization – McKinsey
- Digital Twins for the Built Environment – National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
- Digital twins: When and why to use one – McKinsey
- EY Tech Trend 04: Digital twins: Creating intelligent industries – EY
- Revolutionizing visualization: Modernizing supply chains with digital twin visualization – IBM
- The resurgence of manufacturing Reindustrialization strategies in Europe and the US – Capgemini
- Digital Twin: Architectures, Networks, and Applications – Springer
- Foundational Research Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins – National Academies Press
- Digital twins for health: a scoping review – IBM
- Tech Report: Digital Twins – Interamerican Development Bank
- Guidance for the Integration of Digital Twins in Data Spaces – Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation