20 cities (consortium) selected as pilot cities for "vehicle road cloud integration" application - "smart cars" heading to more cities
2024-07-31
At the beginning of this year, five departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice clarifying that they will carry out pilot work on the "vehicle road cloud integration" application of intelligent connected vehicles. Recently, the list of pilot cities has been released, with 20 cities (consortia) including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Ordos selected. After half a year of preparation, the list of pilot cities has been released, which means that "smart cars" will drive to more cities. Why choose these cities? How to create "smart cars" and build "smart roads" through "vehicle road cloud integration"? What is the widespread application of "vehicle road cloud integration"? The "vehicle road cloud integration" of intelligent connected vehicles is an information physical system that integrates the physical and information spaces of people, vehicles, roads, and clouds through the new generation of information and communication technology. Based on system collaborative perception, decision-making, and control, it realizes the safe, energy-saving, comfortable, and efficient operation of the intelligent connected vehicle transportation system. It has the advantages of standardized access capability, common basic capability, open sharing capability, intensive efficiency enhancement capability, and mode replicability. In front of the terminal building of Beijing Daxing International Airport, a passenger returning from a business trip stood on the roadside, and a self driving taxi equipped with unmanned equipment drove towards him. Passengers sit in the car, fasten their seat belts, and click "Start Travel"... The taxi starts autonomously and smoothly enters the airport expressway. Since the beginning of this year, Beijing has successively opened up key stations such as Daxing International Airport and Beijing South Railway Station for shuttle testing and services. At the end of June, Daxing International Airport opened its first commercial pilot for autonomous driving shuttle services. Nowadays, the high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone in Beijing has been continuously operated, with a total area of 160 square kilometers. We are accelerating the expansion of the 440 square kilometer area, promoting the orderly opening of key scenes such as airports and train stations, and providing a Beijing sample for the landing and development of vehicle road cloud integration The person in charge of the Beijing High level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone Work Office said. In addition to providing shuttle services in key scenarios, the application scenarios of "vehicle road cloud integration" are very extensive. Industry experts introduce that the commercial application scenarios of the vehicle road cloud integration system mainly include: public transportation systems, smart sanitation systems, unmanned delivery systems, networked intelligent driving passenger cars, etc. The development path of 'vehicle road cloud integration' for intelligent connected vehicles has become a consensus in the industry and is also the key to promoting the large-scale industrial application of intelligent connected vehicles in the next stage The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that through the application pilot of integrated development of "vehicle end, road end, and cloud", we will accelerate the construction of urban and road infrastructure, promote the increase of vehicle terminal loading rate, and actively explore new technologies, new business models. The cities included in the pilot program this time include four first tier cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, as well as new first tier cities and provincial capitals such as Chongqing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Hefei, Suzhou, Wuxi, Shenyang, Changchun, Fuzhou, Jinan, and Changsha. There are also prefecture level cities such as Shiyan and Ordos, as well as the "Haikou Sanya Qionghai Consortium" and the "Hangzhou Tongxiang Deqing Consortium". Wang Peng, associate researcher at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "vehicle road cloud integration" can help integrate the power of vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and cloud computing, providing vehicles with more comprehensive and accurate environmental perception and decision-making capabilities, and offering a "Chinese solution" for the development of autonomous driving. The pilot cities have launched demonstration projects, and 20 cities (consortia) have been included in the first batch of pilot projects. Good foundation and early start are important factors. As early as September 2020, Beijing launched the construction of the world's first vehicle road cloud integrated high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone in Yizhuang. Nowadays, autonomous vehicles can be seen everywhere on the streets of Yizhuang, and intelligent connected vehicles have also expanded to more districts and counties in Beijing. Not only Beijing, but also a considerable number of cities included in the pilot program have launched the demonstration project of "vehicle road cloud integration" for intelligent connected vehicles. In June, the major demonstration project of "vehicle road cloud integration" with an investment scale of 17 billion yuan in Wuhan was approved and filed by relevant departments. Fuzhou, Ordos, Shenyang and other cities have also launched relevant project bidding. In the "Hangzhou Tongxiang Deqing Joint Venture", Hangzhou is one of the first batch of new energy vehicle demonstration and promotion pilot projects in China, Tongxiang is a 5G vehicle networking application demonstration zone, and Deqing is a national level vehicle networking pilot zone. The synergy of the three regions is accelerating the formation of industrial agglomeration effects. After the pilot is launched, relevant cities will make efforts in building intelligent roadside infrastructure, conducting large-scale demonstration applications, improving standards and testing evaluation systems, and exploring new models and business models. In terms of infrastructure, pilot cities will build low latency and high reliability networked cloud control infrastructure. The pilot cities aim to cover the entire area of the pilot cities and improve the coverage of intelligent roadside infrastructure and cloud control platforms; By deploying standardized networked cloud control infrastructure on a large scale, we can meet the consistency and continuity requirements of cross regional services for intelligent connected vehicles, comprehensively drive the improvement of the assembly rate and usage effectiveness of in vehicle networked terminals, and lay the foundation for the nationwide promotion of large-scale applications. In terms of scenario applications, pilot cities will promote the large-scale application of multi scenario autonomous driving. Based on the needs of smart cities, intelligent transportation, and industrial development, pilot projects for large-scale applications of smart buses, smart passenger vehicles, automatic parking, urban logistics, and automatic distribution in multiple scenarios will be carried out according to local conditions to meet the public's mobile travel needs and the vehicle operation needs of different commercial scenarios, and to improve the level of urban traffic safety and travel efficiency. In terms of business models, pilot cities will explore the formation of a new business model of "vehicle road cloud integration" for investment, construction, and operation. Encourage the exploration of a development model that involves multiple entities such as state-owned platforms, automobile companies, operators, and technology companies investing and jointly operating, and explore the formation of a new business model that integrates and coexists with each other, divides labor and cooperation, and shares benefits. In terms of standard construction, pilot cities will promote the formation of a unified standard and testing evaluation system. The pilot cities will jointly carry out standard research work, build a unified and shared intelligent connected vehicle "vehicle road cloud integration" and standard system for intelligent transportation, vehicle intelligent management, basic maps, etc., establish and improve the "vehicle road cloud integration" testing and evaluation system, and comprehensively support the construction of simulation, closed site, actual road and other testing and verification capabilities for intelligent connected vehicles. According to institutional predictions, by 2030, the market size of China's intelligent connected vehicles is expected to exceed 5 trillion yuan, and the market size related to "vehicle road cloud integration" is expected to exceed 14 trillion yuan. How to accelerate the implementation of "vehicle road cloud integration" technology and achieve large-scale applications in the face of this super large market? Wang Peng analyzed that the integration of vehicle, road, and cloud is currently in a critical period of transitioning from testing and verification to large-scale applications. In the future, it is necessary to address challenges such as insufficient coverage of intelligent roadside infrastructure, low vehicle terminal installation rates, and unclear business models. In the real road traffic environment, "vehicle road cloud integration" still faces challenges such as numerous traffic elements, complex environmental interference, fluctuating penetration rates, and multiple marginal scenarios, requiring a large number of key technological innovations. Promoting related research and development, infrastructure construction, etc. is very expensive. Who will invest? In the investment and construction process, the government can take the lead in mobilizing more social capital to participate. For example, the new infrastructure project of "Vehicle Road Cloud Integration" in Beijing has a clear plan, and the source of project construction funds is "government investment+self raised by state-owned enterprises", with a funding ratio of 70% government investment and 30% self raised by state-owned enterprises. Pilot cities can also guide the establishment of special industry funds to attract social capital, financial institutions, and other participants, and support project development through equity investment, debt investment, and other means, "said Wang Peng. Integrating existing resources is equally important. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that the construction of "vehicle road cloud integration" for intelligent connected vehicles in various regions is in its early stages and has not yet been able to establish a complete system architecture. There is a phenomenon of "fragmentation" in infrastructure construction, which makes it difficult to support the large-scale application of autonomous driving technology and networking functions. How to avoid the system architecture and infrastructure related to the construction of pilot cities from sweeping the snow in front of each other? This requires promoting the integration of "vehicle road cloud" application pilot and early pilot to be well connected. Previously, China had launched pilot projects in the field of intelligent connected vehicles, including testing demonstration zones, vehicle networking pilot zones, and "dual intelligence" pilots. As of now, 17 national level intelligent connected vehicle testing zones, 7 vehicle networking pilot zones, and 16 "dual intelligence" pilot cities have been established nationwide. More than 32000 kilometers of testing roads have been opened, over 7700 testing licenses have been issued, and the testing mileage has exceeded 120 million kilometers. More than 8700 sets of intelligent roadside units (RSUs) have been deployed in various regions, and cloud control infrastructure platforms have been developed in multiple areas. On this basis, the pilot scope of the "vehicle road cloud integration" application will be further expanded, and through unified architecture design, it will promote the construction of city level and "contiguous" infrastructure in urban agglomerations, break the "fragmented, chimney like" "single point" deployment, and achieve larger scale and wider range of application practices. The pilot will also highlight the role of "network empowerment", covering different levels of networked functional applications such as collaborative warning, collaborative driving assistance, and collaborative autonomous driving from the scene. The pilot application of 'vehicle road cloud integration' for intelligent connected vehicles will fully leverage the construction foundation of pilot work such as the early testing area, vehicle networking pilot area, and 'dual intelligence' pilot, and promote the landing and large-scale application of 'vehicle road cloud integration' technology for intelligent connected vehicles The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said. (New Society)
Edit：Xiong Dafei Responsible editor：Li Xiang
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