{"id":600,"date":"2023-02-07T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=600"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:59:07","slug":"digitaltwin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/dt-resource-hub\/digitaltwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Twin"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n        <div data-span=\"12\">\n                            <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>                            <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;If you would like to share your latest report with u\u200bs to be included in the Digital Transformation Resource Hub, please cont\u200bact us at <a href=\"mailto:digitaltransformation@itu.int\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digitaltransformation@itu.int<\/a>.\u200b\u200b\u200b   <\/p>\n<\/div>                            <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=496&amp;action=edit\"><\/a><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=496\">Back to the main page of Digital Transformation Resource Hub&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>                            <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>                            <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">    <section>\n        <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n                                                <div data-span=\"4\">\n                    <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-4157 size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Digital-twin-general-1024x652.jpeg\" style=\"object-position:51% 50%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"51% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Digital-twin-general-1024x652.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Digital-twin-general-300x191.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Digital-twin-general-768x489.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Digital-twin-general-1536x978.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Digital-twin-general-2048x1304.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#46677a\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>            <\/div>\n                                                <div data-span=\"8\">\n                    <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>                    <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turing.ac.uk\/news\/publications\/probabilistic-digital-twin-uk-en-route-airspace-training-and-evaluating-ai-agents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Probabilistic Digital Twin of UK En Route Airspace for Training and Evaluating AI Agents for Air Traffic Control<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The Alan Turing Institute <\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0736584525001577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robot digital twin systems in manufacturing: Technologies, applications, trends and challenges<\/a> &#8211; ScienceDirect <\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>                    <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>                    <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/pubs\/ir\/8356\/final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Security and Trust Considerations for Digital Twin Technology<\/a> &#8211; INST<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hexagon.com\/resources\/insights\/digital-twin\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Digital Twin Statistics<\/a> \u2013 HEXAGON<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-81451-8_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Digital Twins for Cities and Regions: The Way Forward<\/a> &#8211; Springer<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2667305325000420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital twins: Recent advances and future directions in engineering fields<\/a> \u2013 Elsevier<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/digital-health\/articles\/10.3389\/fdgth.2025.1583466\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital twin for personalized medicine development<\/a> \u2013 Frontiers<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-8954\/13\/7\/505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Using Digital Twin Technology to Improve the Organization of the Supply Chain in Piece Type of Production<\/a> &#8211; MDPI<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/publications\/foresight-toolkit-for-resilient-public-policy_bcdd9304-en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategic Foresight Toolkit for Resilient Public Policy: A Comprehensive Foresight Methodology to Support Sustainable and Future-Ready Public Policy<\/a> \u2013 OECD<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>                            <div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/digital-twin-more-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>\u200b\u200bMore res\u200bources from previous years&nbsp;&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}