Digital Twin Cities. Helsinki case study

Digital city twins represent an innovative perspective for improving the urban environment, resource management and control, and quality of life for citizens. These virtual models reflect the status and functioning of urban infrastructure in real time, enabling more efficient and sustainable resource management. In this context, several cities have adopted advanced digital twin solutions to address environmental, functional and social challenges. Through data collection and analysis, these systems enable better urban planning, transport optimisation, pollution monitoring and emergency management. The research aims to structure the digital twins of the city of Chicago and Helsinki according to precise metrics. Metrics originated from various studies and therefore from heterogeneous sources, with the aim of providing a common language that is comprehensible to the community of insiders and that allows them to concisely communicate an assessment of the various characteristics, the aim is to understand, starting from the comparison, which aspects are positive and to be encouraged in order to create a perfect collaboration between digital twin, city and people.