China News Service, Shaoxing, November 5 (Reporter Fang Kun and Li Dian) When the millennium ancient city collides with cutting-edge technology, what kind of spark will the two create?
Looking into the distance along the main city road in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, the intelligent expressway system erected in the air for hundreds of kilometers may tell us the answer.
In August 2020, the Ministry of Transport issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction of New-type Infrastructure in the Transportation Field", proposing that by 2035, the construction of new-type infrastructure in the transportation field will achieve significant results, and build an integrated and efficient smart transportation infrastructure. It involves smart highways, smart railways, smart waterways, etc.
Among them, as an important part of the "new infrastructure", "smart transportation" deeply applies Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to support the transformation and upgrading of traditional infrastructure, and then form an intelligent transportation infrastructure.
Standing at the vent of "new infrastructure", Shaoxing leverages on development opportunities such as the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the integration of Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo to plan to build a central urban area in Shaoxing, and expand to the area connecting Shaoxing to Hangzhou and Ningbo. system.
Consolidate the foundation of "smart" to help urban transformation
Construction Site.
Photo courtesy of Shaoxing Urban Investment
Under the transformation of the millennium ancient city, why did you choose to use traffic as an incision, and then use it?
From the slang of "to get rich, build roads first" to the ambition of building a strong traffic city, it is not difficult to see that the transportation system is the aorta that supports the efficient operation of the city.
And when cities are constantly being empowered by "smart", the construction of intelligence at the transportation network level may be a great opportunity for the city to "overtake on curves".
In the blueprint of “Smart Transportation” in Shaoxing, the smart expressway integrates the “two wings” of the “engineering technology industry” and the “digital economy industry”, practicing the concept of “no waste city”; adopting advanced smart transportation management technology to construct "Smart cloud control platform" and unmanned driving test environment; based on the management of urban roads, bridges, tunnels, culverts and other transportation facilities, establish a smart transportation operation management platform for regional data collection and analysis applications to analyze the urban traffic environment...
"This will be a smart road based on 5G communication technology, facing the needs of future unmanned driving, vehicle-road collaboration, etc., through the introduction of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence edge computing and sensing equipment, to achieve comprehensive traffic monitoring, driving guidance, independent research and analysis , Decision support, coordinated scheduling and other functions.” Lin Jiaxiang, general manager of the Zhejiang Regional Headquarters of Shanghai Urban Construction Group, one of the contractors, described this.
Big data platform.
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He gave a simple example to reporters: "If there is a slight settlement of the elevated elevated in the future, the transportation management will be able to retrieve the information in the database, assist the technical staff to accurately understand the project's condition, and carry out targeted maintenance operations to avoid Since then, more serious structural aging, cracks and other diseases."
What can such "smart transportation" bring to urban transformation?
Zhu Zhixiang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shaoxing Urban Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd., said frankly that, compared with traditional technological innovation, digital technology will bring overall "intelligent change" in the development concept, management mode and service experience of transportation.
“We are working with Baidu to build the country’s first autonomous vehicle road collaborative smart expressway. After the completion of the project,'smart cars, smart roads' will no longer be a dream. At present, Shaoxing is fully embracing the digital economy and creating a'digital city'."
Ronghang connects Ningbo with Shanghai to expand the city's "friend circle"
monitoring room.
Photo courtesy of Shaoxing Urban Investment
While the intelligence of transportation upgrades urban services, it is also expanding the city's "circle of friends".
From the integration of the Yangtze River Delta to the development of Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo, "smart transportation" is like an open arm, connecting the city and the city.
According to Zhou Wenbo, President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd., Shaoxing's urban expressway network is a vital part of promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
Take the Shaoxing Second Ring North Road Wisdom Expressway project, one of the supporting projects for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, as an example.
The project is based on the design of "the main line expressway with 6 lanes in both directions + the ground auxiliary road with 6 lanes in both directions". It connects Keqiao, Yuecheng, and Shangyu in the east-west direction. At the same time, it undertakes Shanghai-Hangzhou radiation and drives the industrial linkage of the southern wing of Hangzhou Bay to help build the "10 minutes" Three-dimensional express road network system of “Going on the High Speed”.
As an important part of the main skeleton of the three-horizontal and two-vertical "ri"-shaped expressway network in the main urban area of Shaoxing, the start of the second ring south road smart expressway project was called Shaoxing by Sheng Yuechun, deputy secretary of the Shaoxing Municipal Party Committee and Mayor It is a sign of the formal formation of the "Ring and Networking" of the overpass around the city, which plays a positive role in promoting the "two-city plan" and the construction of a network-oriented city.
"Post-90s" young man Sun Mingming travels to and from Hangzhou and Shaoxing almost every day.
For the “two-city youth” like her who works in Hangzhou and lives in Shaoxing, the construction of “smart transportation” is undoubtedly a more convenient and faster travel option.
"After the Wisdom Expressway is completed, young people like us who run between the two places will have more time to balance work and life." Speaking of this, Sun Mingming was full of expectations.
In addition to the shortening of time and space distance, under "smart transportation", cities can also achieve integrated development through information technology such as big data and cloud computing.
In mid-May, Shaoxing Urban Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd., Baidu Apollo, and Shaoxing College of Arts and Sciences jointly established the "Intelligent Driving Vehicle-Road Collaboration (Shaoxing) Innovation Demonstration Center" to explore the application scenarios of intelligent network connection based on expressways between cities.
Undoubtedly, the "new infrastructure" provides the weight of deep embrace between cities.
In recent years, Shaoxing and Hangzhou have signed a series of strategic cooperation agreements in terms of transportation system construction, industrial dislocation development, social undertaking development, and citizen service sharing.
"Especially in terms of transportation. Before the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, we can fully and seamlessly connect with Hangzhou's trunk road network in terms of high-speed railways, expressways, elevated expressways, subways, and trunk roads to achieve transportation. Integrated development.” Shaoxing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Ma Weiguang said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com.
Looking at Jiangnan and Yuedi now, the "smart transportation" plus the advanced road opens up more possibilities for the transformation of the millennium ancient city.
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