Smart city development and urban technologies : digital twin in cities

This research study considers one such urban technology, namely utilising digital twins in cities. Digital twin city (DTC) technology is investigated to identify the gap in soft infrastructure data inclusion in DTC development. Soft infrastructure data considers the social and economic systems of a city, which leads to the identification of socio-economic security (SES) as the metric of investigation. The study also investigated how GIS mapping of the SES system in the specific context of Hatfield informs a soft infrastructure understanding that contributes to DTC readiness. This research study collected desk-researched secondary data and field-researched primary data in GIS using ArcGIS PRO and the Esri Online Platform using ArcGIS software. To form conclusions, grounded theory qualitative analysis and descriptive statistics analysis of the spatial GIS data schema data sets were performed.

本研究探讨了一种城市技术，即在城市中利用数字孪生技术。本研究对数字孪生城市（DTC）技术进行了研究，以识别DTC发展中软基础设施数据包含的差距。软基础设施数据考虑了城市的社会和经济系统，这导致将社会经济安全（SES）视为研究的指标。研究还探讨了在哈特菲尔德特定背景下，SES系统的GIS制图如何为软基础设施理解提供信息，从而有助于DTC的准备工作。本研究收集了使用ArcGIS PRO和Esri在线平台上的ArcGIS软件进行的桌面研究二手数据和现场研究一手数据。为了得出结论，对空间GIS数据模式数据集进行了扎根理论的定性分析和描述性统计分析。