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In the government work report released not long ago, the policy of focusing on supporting the construction of "two new and one heavy" was made clear, and the value of the "two new and one heavy" system was evaluated as "promoting consumption to benefit the people's livelihood and adjusting the structure to increase stamina".

The "two new and one heavy" system includes three construction directions: strengthening the construction of a new type of infrastructure, developing a new generation of information network, strengthening the construction of a new type of urbanization, and strengthening the construction of major projects such as transportation and water conservancy. If we sort out these three construction directions, we will find that traffic is one of the few construction areas that can run through them: the charging piles and electric vehicles in the "new infrastructure" system are directly related to traffic, 5G, AI and other technologies can act on the transport system through digital means; while the new urbanization construction and traffic are inextricably linked; high-speed rail and expressways are ranked first in major projects.

This shows us a clear signal that in the new economic development cycle, traffic has not reached the saturation period, but will play a more important role in the social and economic development. One of the key changes is that the "new infrastructure" system represented by 5G, cloud computing, AI and the Internet of things is integrated with the transportation system in the physical world, which will bring new development to the utilization rate of transportation resources through the mode of traffic digitization and intelligence.

At the same time, it should be seen objectively that intelligent transportation projects are not uncommon in China. However, at the present stage, the uneven development of various places, the lack of synergy, digital isolated islands and other problems also restrict the development power that intelligent transportation provides for social and people's livelihood. Since the "new infrastructure" cycle, we will change the development model through new technologies and new investment in construction. Then perhaps at this time we should also think about such a question: what changes should take place in intelligent transportation in order to give full play to the maximum value in the "new infrastructure" cycle, and really play a long-term role in stimulating economic development and "adjusting the structure to increase stamina"?

First of all, we need to go back to the origin of the question: what is the value of intelligent transportation?

Traffic upgrading is a key opportunity in the cycle of "new infrastructure"

The conceptual circle of intelligent transportation has accumulated too many internal items in the long-term development. For example, ETC is regarded as a kind of intelligent transportation reform, and autopilot can also be regarded as an intelligent transportation scheme; as small as the digital transformation of an intersection prompt, to the collaborative construction of vehicles and roads in the highway system, all fall within the category of intelligent transportation.

The reason for the unified classification of these capabilities, on the one hand, is that it more or less contains digital and information technology, and related technologies are often directly integrated into the transportation system to form a part of the transportation plan. On the other hand, the goal of intelligent transportation project is relatively unified, that is, through the integration of a variety of digital technologies to improve traffic efficiency and ensure traffic safety.

Since ancient times, traffic efficiency is the core resource of social and economic development. The improvement of traffic efficiency also means the simultaneous enhancement of the vitality of economic development. For example, during the Qin and Han dynasties, Liu Bang was able to deceive Xiang Yu because of the scarcity of traffic resources, for example, the famous "overt plank road" during the Qin and Han dynasties. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jiangnan region was the richest in the world, also because the water network pattern greatly enhanced the traffic efficiency, so that the social economy could operate at a very high speed on the basis of small-scale peasant economy.

Today, the basic transportation network of land, sea and air has been quite perfect. Although there is still a lot of room for the new physical traffic construction, the improvement of traffic efficiency brought to the social economy is obviously not as obvious as that when the high-speed, high-speed rail and civil aviation systems were just networked. In this case, the integration of digital technology into the transportation system has become the main choice to maximize traffic efficiency.

Traffic is the communication of the physical world, and communication is the traffic of the digital world. Under the premise of limited traffic space, digital upgrading has become the main way for the transportation system to greatly improve the operation quality, safety level and industrial efficiency. How to turn intelligent transportation from a simple technical means into a "new infrastructure" engine that benefits all industries and supports the sustained and long-term development of social economy requires systematic thinking and design. At present, with the digital upgrading and transformation of the transportation system, there is an urgent need to carry out top-level design at the industry level, new technologies, new applications, and the innovative development of new business type, supplemented by the demonstration and guidance of pilot projects in traffic power, in order to coordinate the development strategy, define the construction objectives, determine the key tasks, plan the implementation path, innovate the system and mechanism, formulate safeguard measures, and promote the construction of intelligent transportation and industrial competitiveness in an orderly manner.

From strategic origin to industrial landing and innovative breakthroughs, the re-upgrading of traffic in the cycle of "new infrastructure" requires layers of systematic thinking and insight.

Strategic level: a Macro reflection on the opportunity of Intelligent Transportation

In today's China, building an intelligent transportation project is by no means news, and it is even difficult for us to find an intelligent transportation project that is not under construction in an area. And new problems and challenges are also born: too many intelligent transportation projects are launched quickly, which are easy to be simple and similar in ability, but may not be able to get through in the system and system, resulting in one system island after another and data chimney. As a result, it is likely that a large number of projects will become disconnected railway systems and become "wisdom for wisdom's sake", lacking the possibility of combination and coordination.

It is obvious that only a unified national transportation network can give full play to the maximum value of transportation. This is true in the field of intelligent transportation. For example, in industrial practice, we will find that the AI traffic light judgment at an intersection can only solve the simple road spillover problem. If the cooperative AI traffic control is carried out in the positive area, it can deal with the comprehensive traffic congestion problem and improve the overall traffic efficiency.

The overall value is greater than one-sided development, and the long-term strategy is superior to the short-term benefits. this logic directly leads to the need to pay attention to the macro strategic insight of intelligent transportation engineering and the bottom thinking of the industry at this stage. Pay attention to the systematic construction of intelligent transportation from the point of view of large areas, the integration of multiple traffic networks, the long-term development of intelligent transportation, and the close relationship between traffic and economic development. Under this logic, we can see four strategic directions that must be paid attention to in the development of intelligent transportation:

1. Overall planning to systematically promote the landing of digital infrastructure in the field of transportation.

Traffic digitization includes two levels: infrastructure digitization and business process digitization, both of which involve different key technologies. Infrastructure digitization is characterized by omni-directional perception and transmission, which mainly involves perceptual connection technologies such as IoT, 5G, machine vision, radar, etc.; the technical characteristics of digitization of business processes emphasize integration, intelligence and visualization, and typical technologies such as cloud computing, big data, AI and so on. This requires the development of intelligent transportation needs to coordinate cognitive and perceptual technology, around the business scene to apply innovation as the goal of the intelligent application ecosystem. In the form of digital platform, cognition and wisdom are precipitated as the driving force in the process of traffic digitization.

2. Unified layout, construction of industrial competitiveness, and practice of precipitation standards.

In the construction of intelligent transportation system, the problems of unified top-level design and standardization must be solved. Relying on major projects, key cooperation, and industry-leading digital platforms, we will try our best to build an intelligent transportation project with the characteristics of a unified network, a cloud, an operation map, a system and so on. On this basis, we will promote the ecological integration and efficient cooperation of local governments and industrial chains, establish industry standards, and promote industrial practice with the lowest trial and error cost.

Intelligent transportation as a fast-paced development, high-speed evolution of the industrial field, there is the possibility of technology and capability iteration at any time. When we need a new capability, pushing the previous systems and capabilities to reconstruction, or using multiple systems in parallel, will only result in a lot of cost and manpower waste. This requires that intelligent transportation projects, in addition to horizontally pull through the top-level design and promote industry standardization, need to be vertically positioned for long-term development. Special attention is paid to the progress in the fields of autopilot, vehicle-road coordination, large-scale participation of artificial intelligence in urban traffic intelligent system and so on. For example, Huawei's free-flow charging integrated intelligent site solution, through the "Huawei Inside" cooperation model, supports the long-term evolution of free-flow charging-vehicle-road collaboration-assisted driving-self-driving business, helping intelligent high-speed digital transformation. The long-term development of intelligent transportation needs to cultivate a perfect industrial ecological chain with the help of the vast domestic market, and build the key capabilities on the industrial chain through economies of scale. Pilot demonstration, the establishment of industry standards, leading the national and even global integration of comprehensive transportation digital construction. With standard technology and practical experience, effectively promote the high-quality development of the transportation industry, and contribute Chinese programs and standards to the world.

3. Build the foundation stone of security and support the development of wisdom.

The development of intelligent transportation is inseparable from the concern and response to safety issues. With the continuous improvement of traffic efficiency, the transportation system also needs digital technology and means to further improve the safety capability. In the development of intelligent transportation industry, we need to pay attention to the construction of safety system in three aspects: in the field of production and operation safety, digital technology can further improve the efficiency of security work, for example, through accurate monitoring of the operation status of relevant infrastructure, vehicles and equipment, digital technology is used to analyze failures and potential risks, and predict in advance according to the data model. Compared with manual inspection and planned maintenance, the safety of the whole transportation system can be greatly improved. With the combined application of new electromagnetic technology, high-definition video and artificial intelligence technology in the field of public safety, the safety scanning and comparison of people and objects will be completed without feeling, and the risk factors of public safety will be eliminated. In the field of network and digital security, the security of ICT infrastructure is very critical, which determines the foundation of the whole "new infrastructure". These technical capabilities determine the starting point of all kinds of "new infrastructure" systems, including intelligent transportation.

4. Establish an incentive mechanism for innovation and development and a fault-tolerant and exempt mechanism for technology pilot projects.

Innovate the concepts and methods of supervision, and establish a new technology pilot decision-making exemption and application fault-tolerant mechanism. Adopt the principle of inclusive and prudent supervision, respect the law of the development of technological innovation and applied innovation, consider it into the scope of fault tolerance according to the actual situation, and consider exemption if the responsibility is determined as non-human responsibility, and build an innovation risk fault-tolerant mechanism. In the aspects of decision-making procedure, management mode, innovation incentive and standard system reconstruction of major industrial projects and application demonstration, we should build a guarantee system conducive to the innovation and development of intelligent transportation industry.

In the industrial cycle in which "new infrastructure" is incorporated into the national strategy and key government support for construction, intelligent transportation should also be at the national macro level.

The field of intelligent transportation and technology providers and project executors must have the strategic concept of long-term development, coordinated development and innovative development. "keeping a good socket for the future" is the only way for us to promote the rapid construction of intelligent transportation today and enjoy the long-term dividend of "new infrastructure".

Industrial layer: the landing practice of intelligent transportation in "new infrastructure"

We know that the biggest technological dividend provided by the "new infrastructure" is not 5G or AI, but the technological crossover and integration dividend of a variety of new generation digital technologies moving towards industrial maturity at the same time. The combination and re-innovation of a variety of technologies make intelligent transportation get rid of the development stage that can only provide traffic data collection and visualization in the early stage of development. Active perception, understanding and traffic decision-making, as well as a large number of traffic end-to-side equipment, began to become the focus of the next stage of development.

In this case, the intelligent transportation industry first needs a digital platform that is unified, inclusive and capable of carrying technology integration infrastructure. Thus, the leapfrog innovation that takes place in industrial practice can be stabilized on a unified technological base, ensuring that the capacity is abundant and can be upgraded in the future. In a large number of intelligent transportation projects in Shenzhen, there is a logical landing of the technical system behind it. For example, Shenzhen's Smart Airport project, based on Huawei's fertile digital platform, has realized the integration of technologies including cloud computing, big data, Internet of things, artificial intelligence and so on. And through data enabling, the scattered multi-source data are fused. Only behind the unified digital operation diagram of the airport, there are many technologies, such as big data, AI, converged communications, video cloud and so on, so as to achieve efficient collaboration in the whole scene, whole process and all elements. In the end, it successfully promoted the flight bridge-stopping rate of Shenzhen airport by 5%.

A stable technology base, abundant industry practices, and replicable and expandable technology integration are all matters that intelligent transportation projects must promote in absorbing multi-technology nutrition. Of course, the dividend of multi-technology integration is not limited to intelligent transportation. Under the "new infrastructure" system, emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, Internet of things, AI, 5G, satellite communications and blockchain will continue to integrate and re-innovate, and their digital spillover effects will benefit all kinds of industries. As a result of technological integration and innovation, the industrial landing of intelligent transportation in the new infrastructure cycle can be divided into three levels:

Core layer: "digital infrastructure" with digital technology as the core, build 5G industry private network, cloud computing platform, traffic big data system, traffic intelligence application and other systems serving transportation, and build intelligent transportation digital platform with digital technology to form a digital intelligent transportation system oriented to safety, efficiency and experience.

Extension layer: intelligent transportation infrastructure based on digital technology, building a digital infrastructure around passenger flow, vehicle flow and logistics services, and digitizing the traffic business processes such as passenger flow, cargo logistics, traffic flow and operation flow based on the digital platform, so as to support more efficient operation, more scientific decision-making and more personalized services.

Radiation layer: using digital technology to transform the traditional transportation system, mainly aiming at the built traffic infrastructure, vehicles and equipment, using digital technology to empower the "dumb facilities / dumb equipment / dumb terminals" digitized, and finally integrated into intelligent transportation.

In the future, under the solid construction of three levels, intelligent transportation will no longer be just the technology behind the city and the scene in science fiction film and television. The digitization of transportation, equipment, road network, hubs, stations and other transport infrastructure will continue to improve, and the transportation system will comprehensively perceive and socially connect people, vehicles, roads, environment, information and other traffic elements. And when everyone's travel is more or less immersed in the world of intelligent transportation, the opportunity for innovation and reuse of technology to merge dividends will also rise.

Innovation layer: how to make a breakthrough in intelligent transportation

In the "new infrastructure" cycle, the most obvious change we will usher in is the further breakthrough of network, computing, storage, intelligence and other basic capabilities in terms of ease of use, cost rationality, and capability boundaries. Then the intelligent transportation system can make rational use of the development of technology in the vertical scene and achieve the ability to make a deep breakthrough, so as to achieve a continuous innovative breakthrough.

For the transportation system, the value optimization and magnified value that each scene can bring will eventually become the needs of the times. The scheme of 5G + cloud + AI can bring brand-new value to the transportation industry in terms of network, computing power, use value and so on. To pay attention to the sustainable development of intelligent transportation, we also need to pay attention to the potential of sustainable innovation in different technological fields. For example:

1. Traffic awareness technology with low cost, low power consumption, high precision, high reliability and large-scale deployment.

In the end-to-side system of traffic field, vision, radar, radio frequency and other traffic sensor technologies and algorithms are bringing low power consumption, high precision, high reliability, real-time, all-weather acquisition, identification, monitoring and security. High-precision positioning technology is facing different traffic subjects, realizing high-precision positioning in indoor and outdoor, underground, high-speed mobile and other scenes, and developing a low-cost, easy-to-deploy satellite, base station, Bluetooth integrated positioning system. The edge computing technology realizes the near-end comprehensive perception, decision-making and control of intelligent traffic through edge computing. This series of changes in perceptual technology will redefine many capability boundaries of traffic scenes. For example, in the highway free-flow toll smart site plan released by Huawei last year, we can use software-defined AI cameras, toll inspection big data platform, highly localized ETC gantry system, lifecycle management capabilities and other products and capabilities to form a fully iterative highway toll station intelligent scene. Thus accurately solve the inspection leakage fees, environmental adaptation, site full-cycle management and operation and other problems.

2. Communication system with high reliability, large bandwidth and low delay.

The connection technology in traffic is becoming more and more important. The C-V2X communication system for vehicle-road cooperation can meet the high reliable continuous coverage among people, vehicles and roads in traffic scenes, and provide communication support for self-driving vehicles. On the other hand, the next generation rail mobile communication system and the next generation aviation communication system will bring the connection upgrade of intelligent transportation in different fields, and become the new digital grasp of intelligent traffic upgrading in each scene.

3. Highly reliable and open digital platform and algorithm model for transportation industry.

The long-term development of intelligent transportation is inseparable from the precipitation and reuse of technology integration, industry wisdom and industry standards on the digital platform. In this field, digital platforms for the transportation industry are constantly being built, including the coordination and linkage among basic platforms such as cloud platform, big data platform, video service platform, Internet of things platform and GIS/BIM platform, as well as the construction of data governance, theme database, topic database, data model and index system of the transportation industry, which are helping the intelligent transportation industry to develop effectively for a long time.

Based on big data and AI technology, traffic industry demand and capacity related algorithm model base is constantly being built and improved, so as to achieve accurate traffic flow forecasting and assist scientific decision-making. In addition, the Internet of things data analysis and management technology and algorithm, vehicle-road coordination algorithm model, autopilot and automatic navigation algorithm are paving the way for the intelligence upgrading of the transportation industry.

4. Construct the industry ecology based on the software and hardware of open innovation.

The ecological aggregation effect and industrial chain optimization and upgrading brought about by intelligent transportation will be long-term and chain-like. Intelligent transportation is the starting point and main starting point for the construction of a traffic power. 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, Internet of things and big data will also become the core driving force of intelligent transportation construction and the core driving force of becoming a traffic power, which will help intelligent transportation to break through the limitations of traditional technology, development mode and development speed. It will help to improve the breadth and depth of the application of intelligent transportation, and give birth to a series of major changes, such as traffic new business type, new model, new service and so on.

Studies by a number of research institutions show that the transportation industry is in a critical period and inflection point of digital transformation, and will show explosive development in the next few years. Although affected by the Black Swan incident of the epidemic, the global traffic and vehicle markets have been significantly hit. However, with the launch of "new infrastructure" in the post-epidemic era, the sustainable development of technology and the continuous iteration of intelligent transportation solutions, the intelligent transportation market will continue to improve in the future.

In the past, our country used to be China on the Silk Road, China on the canal, and China on the railway, so in the future cycle, we will be the China of intelligent transportation. Transportation has always been the lifeblood of China's social economy. In order to improve this lifeline, China's economy will do everything possible to innovate and explore.

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