vCity is a digital platform for creating and managing urban digital twins that enables cities to simulate, analyze, and visualize complex urban scenarios. Developed by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the platform integrates data from multiple sources to support evidence-based urban planning and policy making through a comprehensive, data-driven view of the city.

Problem

Cities are facing increasingly complicated challenges with transportation, sustainability, access to public services, environmental quality, and citizen well-being. Decision-making is frequently focused on fragmented data and isolated analysis, making it difficult to comprehend how many urban aspects interact and how policies may effect the city as a whole.

Solution

vCity addresses this challenge by providing a multidimensional digital twin of the city that brings together heterogeneous urban data in a single environment. The platform allows users to simulate hypothetical scenarios, analyse interdependencies between urban systems, and visualize outcomes in an intuitive way. The platform follows a human-centric and responsible approach, with an emphasis on transparency, traceability, and auditability of information.