Beijing high-level autonomous driving demonstration area expands test area

When driving out, first check whether the parking space near the destination is sufficient online; check the arrival time of the bus line in real time, and the public can travel more comfortably and conveniently… Recently, the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission and the Beijing Intelligent Transportation Development Center jointly released a smart transportation report card. As of the end of February, Beijing’s real-time bus inquiry service has covered 1,258 demonstration lines, and a total of more than 1,160 kilometers of autonomous driving test roads have been opened, with a total test mileage of more than 20 million kilometers.

"Five Stations and Two Stations" Open Autonomous Driving Connection

Three years ago, Beijing began exploring the use of vehicle-road collaboration technology routes to promote the development of autonomous driving technology, allowing more "smart cars" to drive on the "smart road".

"Last year, we successfully applied for the first batch of autonomous driving pilot application pilots of the Ministry of Transport, and carried out large-scale business operations exploration of autonomous driving urban travel services, unmanned distribution and other scenarios." Mu Jieyong, a first-level director of the Science and Technology Department of the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission, introduced that the pilot work has been basically completed, and the relevant results will provide useful reference for the commercialization and application of autonomous driving technology in the transportation field.

At the beginning of this year, Beijing achieved an autonomous driving connection from the high-level autonomous driving demonstration area to Daxing Airport. "The car is very smart, not only can it see the road ahead, but it can also calculate which lane is the best to go." Gao Shifu, a safety officer of self-driving taxis, said that he did not need to press a button for the whole process from the car "driving" to picking up passengers at the reservation point to arriving at the terminal.

This year, Beijing’s high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone has entered the 3.0 construction stage, and the test scope has been expanded to cover a total of 600 square kilometers in Tongzhou District and Shunyi District. In early March, the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission took advantage of the 3.0 expansion opportunity of the high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone to pilot the opening of autonomous driving connection services around the three major cultural buildings in the city’s sub-center. So far, more than 5,000 passengers have been transported.

Next, with the orderly progress of the 3.0 phase expansion work, Beijing will accelerate the deployment of vehicle-road cloud integrated infrastructure to achieve connectivity between Daxing Airport and more regions; expand the operation scope of autonomous driving application scenarios, and continue to promote highway and urban expressway test scenarios; realize the opening of connections at Beijing South Railway Station, Fengtai Station, Chaoyang Station, Qinghe Station, Urban Sub-Central Station, Daxing Airport, and Capital Airport "Five Stations Two Stations" to create more autonomous driving application scenarios.

"One stop, one policy" to ensure passenger connection

In recent years, Beijing has empowered public transportation management efficiency and safe operation through science and technology, and enhanced the sense of access, happiness and security of public travel.

"Adjusting the bus schedule and optimizing the configuration of the bus network through traffic big data analytics on passenger travel needs can reduce the waiting time of passengers and avoid the occurrence of phenomena such as car-hopping." Zhong Yuan, head of the engineering management department of the Beijing Smart Transportation Development Center, introduced that the real-time bus inquiry service is open to millions of citizens through the Internet platform.

Focusing on the construction of smart public transportation, Beijing will promote the upgrade of front-end IoT sensing equipment, promote the construction of "public transportation cloud + data lake" infrastructure platform, and enhance enterprises’ real-time data collection, analysis and processing, and integration application capabilities.

In the field of taxis, Beijing integrates and accesses more than 300 data resources, such as basic information of cruise taxis and online car owners, to build a smart brain, realize real-time monitoring and intelligent scheduling; build a refined algorithm model, which can actively identify illegal operations, form a "suspicious vehicle early warning database", and realize data sharing with relevant departments.

Last year, Beijing used Fengtai Station as a pilot to build a passenger flow prediction model and a taxi capacity gap prediction model, opening up the on-board end point of cruise taxis and the scheduling data channel of online car-hailing platforms, and realizing joint scheduling. This year, Beijing will continue to promote this model, "one stop, one policy" to ensure passenger connection.