ITU Digital Transformation Resource Hub Smart sustainable cities

2025

Financing the Energy Transition: Meeting a Rapidly Evolving Electricity Demand – WEF

2024

The digital energy transition – Eight strategic areas where oil and gas companies are transforming – IBM & SAP
Empowering Urban Energy Transitions – International Energy Agency
Digital Sprinters: The Road to Sustainability Digital Technology as a Key Enabler for Climate Action – Deloitte
Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report, 2024 – International Energy Agency
The Role of Carbon Credits in Scaling Up Innovative Clean Energy Technologies – International Energy Agency
Advancing Clean Technology Manufacturing – International Energy Agency
A Global Review of Patent Data for Smart Grid Technologies – International Energy Agency
Six Lessons from Energy’s Top Performers: Value Creation in Energy 2024 – Boston Consulting Group
Powering the future through reinvention – Accenture
2024 power and utilities industry outlook – Deloitte
Energy transition: The road to scale – Deloitte
Success factors for a low-carbon future in the power sector – Deloitte
Building Resilient and Responsible Critical Minerals Supply Chains for the Clean Energy Transition – Asian Development Bank
Reshaping affordability: interventions for inclusive and livable cities – WEF
Accelerating the green transition: the role of digital infrastructures in decarbonising energy and mobility sectors – European Commission

2025

Development of an integrated model for environmentally and economically sustainable and smart cities – Elsevier

2024

World Smart Cities Outlook 2024 – UN-Habitat
Implementing a Life-Cycle Approach to Infrastructure: A Policy Roadmap for Cities – WEF
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024 – United Nations
Utilizing Artificial neural networks (ANN) to regulate Smart cities for sustainable Urban Development and Safeguarding Citizen rights – Nature
City 4.0: Urban Planning and Development in the Age of Digital Transformation – MDPI
Digitalizing the heart of every construction site: lookahead planning – Roland Berger
RIBA Artificial Intelligence Report 2024 – The Royal Institute of British Architects
A big data association rule mining based approach for energy building behaviour analysis in an IoT environment – Nature
Smart energy management in residential buildings: the impact of knowledge and behavior – Nature
How smart city building improved corporate performance: empirical evidence of China’s a-share listed companies – Nature
Riding the Wave of Digital Transformation: Insights from Japan’s Journey – World Bank Group
Deep learning solutions for smart city challenges in urban development – Nature
2024 Trend Report for Planners – American Planning Association
Emerging trends in infrastructure 2024 – KPMG
2024 engineering and construction industry outlook – Deloitte
The Four Strategic Realms of City Innovation – Boston Consulting Group
Exploring the Different Financing Models for Digital Public Infrastructure and Why They Matter – Asian Development Bank
The State of European Smart Cities: Exploring and showcasing models, solutions, and financing for European replication to achieve climate neutrality – European Commission
AI solution shows truck drivers where to park – Fraunhofer

2025

A Contemporary Survey on Multisource Information Fusion for Smart Sustainable Cities: Emerging Trends and Persistent Challenges – Elsevier
Securing Urban Landscape: Cybersecurity Mechanisms for Resilient Smart Cities – IEEE

2024

Street Smart: Putting the citizen at the center of smart city initiatives – Capgemini
From digital cities to smart homes: how does smart older adults care affect the life satisfaction of older adults?—Evidence from CLASS 2020 – Nature
Synergy Solutions for Climate and SDG Action: Bridging the Ambition Gap for the Future We Want – United Nations
Transforming the aviation industry – Roland Berger
Transition pathway for the EU mobility industrial ecosystem – European Commission
A vehicular network based intelligent transport system for smart cities using machine learning algorithms – Nature
The analysis of pedestrian flow in the smart city by improved DWA with robot assistance – Nature
Accelerating the Shift to Sustainable Transport – Boston Consulting Group
Urban Mobility Technology Survey 2024 – Verra Mobility
Global Report – Transformative Technologies in Transportation – World Bank Group
Advancing Industry Collaboration in Vehicle Software – Asian Development Bank
Digital Decade 2024: eGovernment Benchmark – European Commission
AI for Public Good: EU-U.S. Research Alliance in AI for the Public Good – European Commission
European Commission eGovernment Benchmark 2024 insight report – Advancing Pillars in Digital Public Service Delivery – Capgemini, Sogeti, IDC and Politecnico di Milano
AI, Data Governance and Privacy – OECD
A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world – COSLA & Scottish Government
Assessing progress towards smart governance in Saudi Arabia – Nature
Modernizing Latvia’s Public Employment Service through Digitalization – OECD
Leveraging Lessons Learned from India’s Unified Payments Interface for Digital Transformation in Asia and the Pacific – Asian Development Bank
Blockchain-enabled transparent traffic enforcement for sustainable road safety in cities – Frontiers
Automated vehicles: intelligent decision-making, trajectory planning, and chassis execution – Frontiers