Reflecting City Digital Twins (CDTs) for sustainable urban development: Roles, challenges and directions

Digital engineering., Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100035 - 100035

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Integrating Social Dimensions into Urban Digital Twins: A Review and Proposed Framework for Social Digital Twins

Smart Cities, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8(1), P. 23 - 23

Published: Feb. 5, 2025

The rapid evolution of smart city technologies has expanded digital twin (DT) applications from industrial to urban contexts. However, current twins (UDTs) remain predominantly focused on the physical aspects environments (“spaces”), often overlooking interwoven social dimensions that shape concept “place”. This limitation restricts their ability fully represent complex interplay between and systems in settings. To address this gap, paper introduces (SDT), which integrates into UDTs bridge divide technological lived experience. Drawing an extensive literature review, study defines key components for transitioning SDTs, including conceptualization modeling human interactions (geo-individuals geo-socials), applications, participatory governance, community engagement. Additionally, it identifies essential analytical tools implementing outlines research gaps practical challenges, proposes a framework integrating dynamics within UDTs. emphasizes importance active participation through governance model offers comprehensive methodology support researchers, technology developers, policymakers advancing SDT applications.

Language: Английский

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What is a Digital Twin anyway? Deriving the definition for the built environment from over 15,000 scientific publications

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112748 - 112748

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Insurmountable limitations of city-scale digital twins? On urban knowledge and planning

Computational Urban Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: March 26, 2025

Abstract Digital twins are enjoying widespread and growing success in both theoretical practical applications. A recent development that is gaining increasing traction the application of digital to cities. The aim this article discuss whether there inherent limitations case. At present, scientific literature on urban dominated by “technical” approaches. Critical investigation – especially from a philosophical perspective still at its beginnings. This aims contribute line inquiry. It mainly analytical. On basis specific conceptual framework, it examines their applications contexts. starts distinguishing among simple, complicated complex systems, reaches conclusion that, while using generally appropriate (and often helpful) first two these some structural use case systems. In latter case, depend certain distinctive aspects such as emergent unpredictable nature, role played regard “dispersed knowledge” (that is, form diffused knowledge crucial for functioning large systems but cannot be collected re-unified because, coherent integrated whole, does not exist anywhere).

Language: Английский

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

Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 156, P. 105473 - 105473

Published: Oct. 21, 2024

Language: Английский

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Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?

Ethics and Information Technology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(1)

Published: Nov. 23, 2024

Abstract Urban Digital Twins (UDTs) have become the new buzzword for researchers, planners, policymakers, and industry experts when it comes to designing, planning, managing sustainable efficient cities. It encapsulates last iteration of technocratic ultra-efficient, post-modernist vision smart However, while more applications branded as UDTs appear around world, its conceptualization remains ambiguous. Beyond being technically prescriptive about what are, this article focuses on their aspects interaction operationalization in connection people cities, how enhanced by metaverse ideas they can deepen societal divides offering divergent urban experiences based different stakeholder preferences. Therefore, firstly repositions term comparing existing concrete located that a focus participation, including some may be closer concept UDT than is commonly assumed. Based components found separately studied cases, possible hypothesize future, advanced realizations UDTs. This enables us contrast positive negative impacts. While development immersive interactive digital worlds improve planning using collective knowledge inclusive diverse pose significant risks not only common ones regarding privacy, transparency, or fairness, but also social fragmentation multiplicities. The potential benefits challenges integrating multiplicity into participatory governance emphasize need human-centric approaches promote socio-technical frameworks able mitigate division.

Language: Английский

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Ethical, Privacy, and Security Implications of Digital Twins

Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 397 - 424

Published: March 28, 2025

Digital twins, dynamic virtual replicas of physical entities, are transforming industries by enabling real-time monitoring, predictive insights, and optimization. While their adoption in fields such as healthcare, manufacturing, urban planning promises unparalleled advancements, it also raises critical ethical, privacy, security concerns. This chapter examines the multifaceted challenges associated with digital twin technology, focusing on societal, legal, technical implications use. Privacy risks emerge from extensive collection processing sensitive data, unauthorized access potentially leading to breaches, discrimination, or misuse. Ethical issues include algorithmic bias, inequitable decision-making, accountability gaps, particularly sectors like healthcare governance. Security vulnerabilities, cyberattacks interconnected systems, highlight need for robust measures safeguard data infrastructure.

Language: Английский

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The uptake of urban digital twins in the built environment: a pathway to resilient and sustainable cities

Computational Urban Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: April 16, 2025

Abstract Urban Digital Twin (UDT) technology is increasingly recognised as a promising tool for designing and developing sustainable, resilient urban environments. Nonetheless, the current literature lacks comprehensive understanding of UDTs’ applications in built environment. Therefore, this study addresses identified gap by analysing scholarly industry reports connected to UDT implementations. The results scientometric analysis revealed five key research fields including: (i) monitoring controlling, (ii) smart planning, (iii) environmental management, (iv) decision-making, (v) sustainable cities. Further, analysed 10 on identify practical insights evaluate industry-driven approaches implementing solutions Despite progress, findings indicate absence clear, structured process facilitate consistent implementation, scalability, interoperability technology. This further highlights need globally guidelines well-defined KPIs fully realise its potential also presents new classification model developed from flow elaborate main outcomes clusters towards pathways. proposed reintroduces structure with interpret correlate content previous studies. Based these insights, offers recommendations support advancement building resilient,

Language: Английский

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A systematic review of digital twins’ potential for citizen participation and influence in land use agenda-setting

Discover Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 6(1)

Published: April 30, 2025

Language: Английский

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Data integration across urban digital twin lifecycle: a comprehensive review of current initiatives

Annals of GIS, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: Oct. 15, 2024

Challenges related to data integration and interoperability were raised recently under the auspice of Urban Digital Twin (UDT). This new paradigm shows its potential address current city challenges. However, maximize outcomes at scale, we should tackle fundamental issues integration. Indeed, various (DT) frameworks are developed in practice. Their implementations led identification three main levels The first level involves extension model handle information. second supports by default, needs be transformed meet requirements. third performs front-end with help system architectures. aim this work is analyze, illustrate, guide effectiveness different approaches. exploratory review unpacks according corresponding UDT lifecycle phases (i.e., creation, use, update phases). It highlights challenges potentialities offers DT designer conceptual guidelines Furthermore, theoretical scenarios extracted investigated, considering several types sources data. research provides a comprehensive analytical framework for within UDTs, where some operational examined based on life cycle While state-of-the-art identifies as major challenge full implementation UDT, it not explored depth, only addressed from case study-specific perspective, availability requirement. Hence, generic urban application-independent overview inspired Spatial Data Infrastructure lifecycle. article insights build, UDT. practical list initiatives used illustrate exhaustive, future documented. emphasis creation use lifecycle, which lacks concrete illustration phase. limits practicability maintenance

Language: Английский

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