ITU Digital Transformation Resource Hub Digital Twin

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

A perception-powered urban digital twin to support human-centered urban planning and sustainable city development – Elsevier

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

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