Smart sustainable cities – more resources
Including topics on smart energy, smart buildings and urban planning, smart mobility and transportation, and other key aspects of SSC.
Publications

Smart energy
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
- Building Resilient and Responsible Critical Minerals Supply Chains for the Clean Energy Transition – Asian Development Bank
2023
- Sustainable and smart mobility strategy – European Parliament
- Infrastructure technologies: Challenges and solutions for smart mobility in urban areas – McKinsey & Company
- Smart Mobility Framework – City of Alexandria, USA
- Energy Technology Perspectives – International Energy Agency (IEA)
- IMD Smart City Index Report 2023 – International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
- Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2023 – WEF and Accenture
- Digitalisation: An enabler for the clean energy transition – European policy centre
- Securing the Energy Transition – WEF & Accenture
- Energy Security and Smart Meters – smart meters
- A blockchain based lightweight peer‑to‑peer energy trading framework for secured high throughput micro‑transactions – Nature
- Photovoltaics Report – Fraunhofer
- Smart energy: Mapping your path to net zero – Buro Happold
2022
- Towards net-zero: Interoperability of technologies to transform the energy system – OECD
- Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2022 – WEF and Accenture
- Target True Zero: Unlocking Sustainable Battery and Hydrogen-Powered Flight – WEF, University of Cambridge and Aviation Impact Accelerator
- Costs, Energy & Going Green: A guide for small businesses – smart meters
- Smart energy – an energy system for the 21st century – Midlands Engine partners
- 2023 power and utilities industry outlook – Deloitte
- Renewable energy status report – UNECE
- McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2022 Future of clean energy – McKinsey&Company
- Can decentralized energy get good enough, fast enough? – Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI)
- Internet of Things for smart energy systems: A review on its applications, challenges and future trends – Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- A novel energy management framework incorporating multi-carrier energy hub for smart city – The Institution of Engineering and Technology
- World Energy Issues Monitor 2022 – World Energy Council
2021
- Global Energy Review 2021 – IEA
- World Energy Issues Monitor 2021 – World Energy Council
2020
- 2020 Power and Utilities Industry Outlook – Deloitte
- World Energy Issues Monitor – World Energy Council
2019
- Energy-as-a-service – Deloitte
- Analyzing Load Profiles of Energy Consumption to Infer Household Characteristics Using Smart Meters – MDPI
- Role of Smart Meters in Responding to Climate Change – Delta Energy and Environment
- Making the Smart Meter Social Promotes Long-term Energy Conservation – Palgrave Communications
2018
- Smart Grid Laboratories Inventory 2018 – EU (2018)
- Connecting Smart Grid and Climate Change – Silver Spring Networks (2018)
- Smart Energy Grid based on Blockchain Technology – International Journal on Advanced Science Engineering Information Technology (2018)
2017
- Guest Editorial Special Section on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Resources: Information and Communication Technologies with Industry Perspective – IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2017)
- Practical Guidance for Defining a Smart Grid Modernization Strategy – the World Bank (2017)
- The Future of Electricity: New Technologies Transforming the Grid Edge – the World Economic Forum (2017)
2016
- Smart Grid to Enhance Power Transmission in Vietnam – the World Bank (2016)
2015
- The Multiple benefits of measures to improve energy efficiency – UNEP DTU Partnership (2015)
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
2023
- Smart Buildings EU-funded Innovations – European Commission
2022
2021
2020
- Smart Building at Scale – Intel
2019
- Can You Trust Your Smart Building?– IoT Security Foundation
- Integration of BIM and GIS in sustainable built environment: A review and bibliometric analysis – Elsevier
- The Role of Sustainable Urban Building in Industry 4.0 – IOP: Journal of Physics
2018
- The Future of Smart Building – Siemens (2018)
- Smart buildings: Four considerations for creating people-centered smart digital workplaces – Deloitte (2018)
- Building Sustainability Performance – European Commission (2018)
2017
- Boosting Building Renovation – European Parliament (2017)
- Smart Working: Smart Buildings and the Future of Work – UNWORK (2017)
2016
- Smart Buildings Enables Smart Cities – WIPRO (2016)

Smart buildings and urban planning

Digital services
2024
- 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
- 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
- A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world – COSLA & Scottish Government
- Leveraging Lessons Learned from India’s Unified Payments Interface for Digital Transformation in Asia and the Pacific – Asian Development Bank
2023
- Driving Türkiye’s Travel and Tourism Development: The Challenges and Opportunities of Using Big Data for Sustainable Growth – WEF and Cappadocia University
- Unlocking Safety and Innovation in Vehicle Software – WEF and Boston Consulting Group
- Data for the City of Tomorrow: Developing the Capabilities and Capacity to Guide Better Urban Futures – WEF, Connected Places Catapult and The Business of Cities
- IOT Based Car Parking System – SSRN
- Managing smart city governance – A playbook for local and regional governments – UN-Habitat, CAF, Edinburgh Napier University, Tallinn University of Technology
- Unlocking Interoperability: Overcoming Regulatory Frictions in Cross-Border Payments – World Bank Group
- Reimagining Digital ID – WEF
- Scaling Agritech at the Last Mile: Converging Efforts for Farmers’ Prosperity – WEF and the Government of Telangana
- Decentralized Identifier (DID) – World Bank
- Connecting the dots: Data sharing in the public sector – Capgemini Research Institute
- Rescuing SDG 11 for a resilient urban planet – UN-Habitat
- Data for the City of Tomorrow: Developing the Capabilities and Capacity to Guide Better Urban Futures – WEF, Connected Places Catapult and The Business of Cities
- Calculating Indicators From Global Geospatial Data Sets for Benchmarking and Tracking Change in the Urban Environment – World Resources Institute
- Weighting Justice Reform Costs and Benefits Using Machine Learning and Modern Data Science – World Bank
- Social approach to the transition to smart cities – European Parliamentary Research Service
- Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices – UN-Habitat
2022
- Next Destination: SOFTWARE How automotive OEMs can harness the potential of software-driven transformation – Capgemini Research Institute
- Toward Credible Transport Carbon Dioxide Emissions Accounting in China – World Resources Institute
- The Design and Evaluation of a Telematic Automated System of Weight Control for Heavy Vehicles – MDPI
- E-mobility in Slovakia by 2030—End of oil dependency? – IET Smart Cities
- Urban Mobility Trend Report 2022 – SmartCitiesWorld
- Traffic Management in African Cities : The Way Forward – World Bank Group
- Smart Urban Mobility System Evaluation Model Adaptation to Vilnius, Montreal and Weimar Cities – MDPI
- Towards intelligent public transport systems in Smart Cities; Collaborative decisions to be made – Elsevier
- Government Migration to Cloud Ecosystems: Multiple Options, Significant Benefits, Manageable Risks – World Bank
- Deep-Dive on Malaysia’s Digital Services Trade – World Bank
- Digitizing Cash Transfers to Remote Rural Populations: Challenges and Solutions from the Experience of Zambia – World Bank
- Internet Access and Use in Latin America and the Caribbean: From the LAC High Frequency Phone Surveys 2021 – World Bank
- Shaping the Future of Small and Medium-Sized Cities: A Framework for Digital Transformation – WEF and Tencent Research Institute
- Transforming Food Systems with Farmers: A Pathway for the EU – WEF & Deloitte &NTT Data
- Smart cities and innovations: Addressing user acceptance with virtual reality and Digital Twin City – IET
- Multilevel Governance for SDG Localization – UN-Habitat
- Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices – UN-Habitat
- Case study: Daegu, Korea (Republic of) – ITU
- The Global Smart Industry Readiness Index Initiative: Manufacturing Transformation Insights Report 2022 – WEF and Singapore Economic Development Board
- Industry 5.0, a transformative vision for Europe – European Commission
- Assessing Incentives to Increase Digital Payment Acceptance and Usage: A Machine Learning Approach – World Bank
- Toward More People-Centered Service Delivery: Opportunities for the National ID System in Lesotho – World Bank
2021
- Smart Region Mobility Framework – MDPI
- Impact of the Concept Smart City on Public Transport – Elsevier
- Simple ways to be smart – U4SSC
- Compendium of survey results on integrated digital solutions for city platforms around the world – U4SSC
- Centering People in Smart Cities – UN-Habitat
- Assessing the Digital Divide – UN-Habitat
- Addressing the Digital Divide – UN-Habitat
- Global State of National Urban Policy 2021 – UN-Habitat
- Industry 5.0 – Towards a sustainable, human-centric and resilient European industry – European Commission
- City Playbook for Advancing the SDGs – Brookings
2020
- The 2020 Deloitte City Mobility Index – Deloitte
- Innovation trend report smart mobility – INTESA SANPAOLO INNOVATION CENTER
- Age and the city: The case of smart mobility – Springer
- Electric vehicles standards, charging infrastructure, and impact on grid integration: A technological review – Elsevier
- Advances in smart roads for future smart cities – The Royal Society Publishing
- Design and implementation of a smart traffic signal control system for smart city applications – MDPI
- Developments in the United Kingdom road transport from a smart cities perspective – Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
- Understanding public transit patterns with open geodemographics to facilitate public transport planning – Taylor & Francis Group
- Future Cities, New Economy, and Shared City Prosperity Driven by Technological Innovations – UN-Habitat
- World Cities Report 2020: The Value of Sustainable Urbanization – UN-Habitat 2020
- Blockchain for smart sustainable cities – U4SSC
- Citis and Consumption – Sharing Cities Sweden
- City science application framework and its case studies – U4SSC
- Designing digital safety in the smart city – European Cybersecurity Journal
- Smart and Sustainable Cities – MDPI
- World Water Development report – UN Water
2019
- The future of mobility is at our doorstep – McKinsey & Co
- Smart Mobility Using Multi-Agent System – Elsevier
- How can Big Data and machine learning benefit environment and water management: a survey of methods, applications, and future directions – IOP Publishing
- Creating the smart cities of the future – PWC
2018
- Smart mobility and services – EU (2018)
- Elevating the Future of Mobility – Deloitte (2018)
- Electric Vehicles for Smarter Cities: The Future of Energy and Mobility – World Economic Forum (2018)
- Smart Water Management Case Study Report – IWRA (2018)
- IoT Technology for Smart Water Management – Research Gate (2018)
- Urban Water Atlas for Europe – European Commission (2018)
- Six research priorities for cities and climate change – Springer Nature (2018)
- Our Shared Digital Future: Building an Inclusive Trustworthy and Sustainable Digital Society – WEF (2018)
- Germany: Towards Stronger, Fairer and Greener Growth – OECD (2018)
- Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation – World Economic Forum (2018)
- Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability – European Environment Agency (2018)
- Securing the Smart City Olympics – Securing Smart Cities (2018)
- Forces of Change: Smart Cities – Deloitte (2018)
- Building the Smart City – Deloitte (2018)
- Digitizing European Industries – European commission (2018)
2017
- Smart Transportation in China and the United States – Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings (2017)
- Smart Mobility and Services – European Commission (2017)
- Enhancing innovation and participation in smart sustainable cities – U4SSC (2017)
- Implementing SDG11 by connecting sustainability policies and urban-planning practices through ICTs – U4SSC (2017)
- Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities – U4SSC (2017)
- Water Management in Europe – European Environmental Agency (2017)
- Turning Smart Water Meter Data Into Useful Information – Lund University (2017)
- Digital Transformation Initiative: Unlocking $100 Trillion for Business and Society from Digital Transformation – World Economic Forum (2017)
2016
- Smart Mobility and Societal Challenges: An Implementation Perspective – Eindhoven University of Technology (2016)
- EU Transition Towards Green and Smart Mobility: Action Toolbox to Unleash Innovation Potentials – Clingendael (2016)
- The Real-Time City: Unlocking the Potential of Smart Mobility – Australasian Transport Research Forum (2016)
- Eletromobility in Germany: Vision 2020 and Beyond – Germany Trade and Invest (2016)
- Water Tight 2.0: The Top Trends in the Global Water Sector – Deloitte (2016)
- One Water Roadmap: The Sustainable Management of Life’s Most Essential Resource – US water alliance (2016)
- Role of Information Communication Technologies in Water Management – University of Nairobi (2016)
- Exploring the Energy Benefits of Advanced Water Metering – Berkeley National Laboratory (2016)
- Water 4.0 – German Water Partnership (2016)
- The Role of ICT in Reducing Carbon Emissions in the EU – British Telecommunications (2016)
- Growing smart cities in Denmark – ARUP (2016)
2015
2014
- Using ICT for monitoring rural water service: from data to action – Dickinson, N. and Bostoen, K. (2014)
- EU-China Smart and Green City Cooperation “Comparative Study of Smart Cities in Europe and China” and “White Paper” – Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; DG CNECT, EU Commission; China Academy of Telecommunication Research, MIIT (2014)
- What are future cities? Origins, meanings, and uses – The Business of Cities for the Foresight Future of Cities Project and the Future Cities Catapult (2014)
- Smart Cities – Does Smart mean Sustainable? – Envirocities eMagazine (2014)
- Energy Efficiency and Technologies in America’s Cities – The United States Conference of Mayors (2014)
- Mapping Smart Cities in EU – European Parliament (2014)
- Smart City and Sustainability – China Standardization (2014)
- Smart Cities – Centre for Cities (2014)