Advanced information technology deeply empowers transportation infrastructure, and comprehensively enhances the ability of accurate perception, accurate analysis, fine management and meticulous service, which has become a strong support for accelerating the construction of a transportation power.

  Recently, the Ministry of Transport’s website issued the “Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Transport on Promoting the Construction of New Infrastructure in the Transport Field” (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”), which clarified the construction drawings for the construction of new infrastructure in the transport sector by 2035 and proposed A series of specific tasks, including the development of intelligent high-speed EMUs such as high-speed magnetic levitation at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour; promotion of collaborative applications such as fifth-generation mobile communication technology (5G), Beidou system and remote sensing satellite industry applications; promotion of artificial intelligence pilot applications such as autonomous driving Demonstration area construction.

Clarify multiple tasks in three major areas

  "We must unswervingly grasp the construction of new infrastructure, use new technologies to empower traditional transportation projects, and make transportation projects the main force of the'new infrastructure'." Before the official release of the "Opinions", Li Xiaopeng, Minister of Transportation This was stated at the ministerial meeting of the Ministry of Transport.

  The "Opinion" is just such a construction drawing that plans the implementation of new infrastructure in the transportation industry in the next 15 years.

  The "Opinions" stated that by 2035, significant results will be achieved in the construction of new infrastructure in the transportation sector. Advanced information technology deeply empowers transportation infrastructure, and comprehensively enhances the ability of accurate perception, accurate analysis, fine management and meticulous service, which has become a strong support for accelerating the construction of a transportation power. Effectively control the energy consumption level of infrastructure construction and operation. Ubiquitous sensing facilities, advanced transmission networks, and Beidou space-time services have deep coverage in the transportation industry. Industrial data centers and network security systems are basically established, and smart trains, autonomous vehicles, and smart ships are gradually applied. The ability to support technological innovation has been significantly improved, and the level of forward-looking technology application ranks among the top in the world.

  The "Opinions" also clarified multiple tasks in three major areas. The three major areas are "Building Integrated and High-Efficiency Smart Transportation Infrastructure", "Assisting Information Infrastructure Construction" and "Industry Innovation Infrastructure".

  What does it mean to integrate efficient smart transportation infrastructure? The "Opinions" specifically pointed out the goals of building smart highways, smart railways, smart waterways, smart ports, smart civil aviation, smart post, smart hubs, and new energy and new materials industry applications. Taking smart railways as an example, the China National Railway Group (hereinafter referred to as China Railway Group) in the subsequent "New Era Transport Power National Railway Advanced Planning Outline" gave the future smart railway scenarios: face-to-face entry and exit, non-sense payment, no Sensory security inspection; the entire process of digitization of all elements of people, goods, vehicles, and yards; an intelligent monitoring system integrating air, space, ground and vehicles is formed along the high-speed rail line. Once there is a natural disaster or foreign body intrusion, the intelligent monitoring and early warning system will immediately alarm; Implement unattended and remote monitoring in high-risk jobs...

  "The "Opinions" are of great significance to further refine the goals and phased tasks of building a strong transportation country, and to promote the high-quality development of my country's transportation." said Ou Guoli, director of the China Transportation Economic Research Center of Beijing Jiaotong University.

Promote the development of intelligent high-speed EMUs

  How to build an integrated and efficient smart transportation infrastructure? The "Opinions" specifically clarified several important projects in the smart transportation infrastructure. Develop intelligent high-speed EMUs and carry out the development and testing of high-speed maglev trains with a speed of 600 kilometers per hour and high-speed wheel-rail passenger trains with a speed of 400 kilometers per hour. Increase the application of highway electronic toll collection system (ETC) mast, enrich the application scenarios of vehicle-road collaboration. Apply blockchain technology to promote electronic documents, online business processing, full chain supervision of dangerous goods, and full logistics visualization.

  A number of new transportation infrastructure projects in my country are accelerating.

  "The high-speed maglev transportation system is the fastest large-scale ground public transportation currently achievable." Wu Donghua, deputy chief engineer of CRRC Sifang Co., Ltd., said that as an international cutting-edge technology, high-speed maglev is one of the world's rail transportation technologies. Commanding heights".

  In July 2016, China launched the development of a high-speed maglev transportation system with a speed of 600 kilometers per hour. After 4 years of scientific and technological research, it has broken through the key core technologies of the high-speed maglev series. In terms of operation and control communication, it has established a long-term trunk line and tracking operation. The fully automatic control system of the company, and innovative research and development of a new communication system based on LTE network architecture and integration of low-latency technology. On June 21 this year, the 600 kilometers per hour high-speed maglev test prototype developed by CRRC Sifang Co., Ltd. was successfully tested on the maglev test line of Tongji University in Shanghai.

  The development and testing of high-speed rail intelligent EMUs and 400 km/h EMUs are also in full swing. Wu Guodong, deputy director of the National Railway Group's Motor Vehicle Department, revealed that the National Railway Group is planning to use existing high-speed rail lines to develop a new generation of high-speed EMUs. The basic goals are safety and stability, energy conservation and environmental protection, stability and comfort, economic reliability, and overall technical level. Leading, can promote and lead the world's high-speed train technology progress.

  Intelligent EMUs promote the application of intelligent technologies such as intelligent driving, intelligent operation and maintenance, and intelligent services through the deep integration of the Internet, artificial intelligence and high-speed rail, and provide passengers with safer, high-quality, and diversified transportation services. Wu Guodong said that the high-speed rail intelligent EMUs have been put into use in small batches on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway, and the Beijing-Xiong Intercity Intelligent EMUs are planned to be put into use at the Beijing-Xiong Intercity which will be opened at the end of this year.

"Wisdom+" involves all aspects of transportation

  In terms of assisting the construction of information infrastructure, the "Opinions" particularly emphasized the need to strengthen the application of new technologies such as Beidou.

  On June 23, the last Beidou-3 global networking satellite was ignited and launched at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. "The transportation industry is one of the largest civilian users of the Beidou system. In the next step, the Ministry of Transport will further give full play to the leading role of the transportation industry in the promotion and application of the Beidou system, and take the industry's Beidou system-related infrastructure construction as a national new infrastructure strategy. An important foothold.” said Sun Wenjian, deputy director and spokesperson of the Policy Research Office of the Ministry of Transport.

  The "wisdom+" mentioned in the "Opinions" involves almost all aspects of transportation.

  The "Opinions" clarified that it will promote collaborative applications such as the fifth-generation mobile communication technology (5G), Beidou system and remote sensing satellite industry applications, strengthen network security protection, and promote the construction and application of data centers and artificial intelligence. Gradually realize network coverage of fixed-mobile, wide-narrow, and public-private networks in key sections of expressways and railways, important comprehensive passenger transport hubs, ports, and logistics parks. Improve the high-precision navigation and location service capabilities of the Beidou system in the transportation industry, and build a high-precision geographic information map of the Beidou system in the industry.

  "With its core positioning system and powerful computing capabilities, the Beidou system can collect accurate information, process, analyze, and obtain results. The entire closed-loop chain can be closely connected with traffic. It is connected with big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. The in-depth integration of the new generation of information technologies such as the Internet of Vehicles and the Internet of Vehicles provides protection for transportation, agriculture, smart cities, aerospace, navigation, etc." said Yu Xiangfei, market strategy consultant for China’s IDC circle.

  The Beidou system is gradually being applied in the transportation industry. According to relevant news from the Ministry of Transport, the Beidou application on the Yangtze River trunk line business ships and passenger ferry has achieved 100% full coverage, and the maritime sector will achieve 100% full coverage of Beidou applications within this year; in the field of water safety, China is actively promoting the internationalization of the Beidou satellite search and rescue system Application: In the field of civil aviation application, draft relevant standards and recommended measures to promote the integration of Beidou system into ICAO applications.

  In terms of assisting the construction of information infrastructure, the "Opinions" also emphasized the need to strengthen network security protection, improve comprehensive transportation data centers, increase the integration of artificial intelligence and transportation, and continue to promote research and development applications such as autonomous driving, smart shipping, and smart construction sites.

  In order to complete the 15-year plan for the new transportation infrastructure, the "Opinions" also emphasized the improvement of industry innovation infrastructure, strengthening the construction of a scientific research base system in the transportation field led by important carriers such as national key laboratories and national technology innovation centers, and made "recently accelerated Deepen the application of mature technologies in key areas of transportation infrastructure, track the development of new technologies in the long-term, and moderately advance the layout”.

  Industry experts believe that the "Opinions" will promote the rapid development of new transportation infrastructure, the future travel scene will be smarter, and there will also be more abundant new transportation formats.

  Our reporter Jiao Yang