Including topics on smart energy, smart buildings and urban planning, smart mobility and transportation, and other key aspects of SSC.
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Publications
Smart energy
2025
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
Smart buildings and urban planning
Digital services
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