How is the construction progress of the pilot area of vehicle networking？
Since the beginning of this year, the society’s attention to the Internet of Vehicles has been continuously improved, and the construction of national-level car networking pilot areas has continued to accelerate. At present, seven places have been approved to create a national-level car networking pilot area. What is the construction situation of the pilot area? What other aspects should be exerted by combining local advantages with development planning?
Give full play to the advantages of geographic information
Recently, the 2023 National Intelligent Driving Test Competition (Yangtze River Delta Division) started in Zhejiang Deqing Intelligent Networked Automobile Test Site. As an important supporting activity of the 2023 World Intelligent Networked Automobile Congress, this event includes a number of special events, including autonomous driving, production cars, car networking safety, etc., with a total of 16 test items, which attracted many brand car companies to compete in the same field.
Why did this national event land in the small town of Deqing? As the first national-level vehicle networking pilot zone in China, Deqing relies on the advantages of geographic information industry agglomeration to constantly break through industrial boundaries and promote the cross-border integration and development of geographic information and vehicle networking industries. It is reported that Deqing Intelligent Networked Vehicle Test Site, covering an area of 172 mu, is the only public test site in Zhejiang Province that meets both bicycle intelligence and intelligent network testing. Since the completion of the test site, 28 autopilot test licenses have been issued to 20 enterprises. In addition, Deqing also completed the intelligent transformation of 181.6 kilometers of multi-road scenes, and the 949.3 kilometers of roads in the whole region were open for testing.
Deqing is the highland of global geographic information industry gathering and the source of innovation, with the support of spatio-temporal information and the exploration of vehicle-Lu Yun integration technology at the forefront. "The technology of intelligent networked vehicles is constantly developing, and it is highly dependent on safe and reliable basic geographic information data. Deqing has taken precautions and laid a solid foundation for the development of intelligent networked vehicles industry." Zhu Xichan, a professor at Tongji University Automotive College, believes.
Since the beginning of this year, Deqing has introduced 26 geographic information industry chain extension projects, 6 intelligent networked auto parts projects with a price of over 300 million yuan, and 7 completed projects. 32 leading enterprises, such as Founder Electric and Mache Technology, have settled in Deqing, and the upstream and downstream industries, such as geographic information, testing and verification, and unmanned low-speed vehicle production, have been gradually improved.
Chihiro Location Company, which settled in Deqing, is the construction and operator of the national Beidou foundation reinforcement system. In April this year, Chihiro released the "Full Link Map of Beidou Spatio-temporal Intelligence Basic Capability", which marked that all the key links of Beidou Spatio-temporal Intelligence application were opened. At present, 23 mass-produced cars, such as SAIC, Tucki and Ideality, are equipped with Chihiro’s location and time-space intelligent service, with a cumulative service time of over 200 million hours.
"The centimeter-level high-precision positioning technology was originally only used in the niche and professional surveying and mapping fields. Entering the field of car networking is not a simple transplant and copying, but a revolutionary transformation." Nian Jinfei, general manager of Chihiro Location Intelligent Driving Division, believes that the bottleneck of intelligent driving comes from collaborative infrastructure construction. In the next step, the enterprise will strengthen cooperation with Deqing and accelerate the implementation of the collaborative development of Beidou Road.
Geographic information and global opening are the two major advantages of Deqing’s car networking industry development. "It is necessary to give full play to the first-Mover advantage of the geographic information industry, and continue to explore from the aspects of intelligent infrastructure optimization and upgrading, cloud control platform construction, and application scenario deepening, and form more experiences and practices that can be replicated and promoted." Tang Xianguo, director of the Dixin Development Center of Moganshan High-tech Zone in Huzhou, said. (Reporter Liu Wen)
Expand more application scenarios
Recently, a new energy commercial heavy truck model of Shiqiao Intelligent Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. is being tested in the closed test field of Tianjin (Xiqing) national vehicle networking pilot area, and at the same time, there are more than 10 brands of new energy vehicles waiting for testing.
"This year, facilities such as straight roads that meet European standards will be built at the testing site to meet the export testing needs of independent automobile brands in China. At present, some new energy vehicles have passed more than 200 test items such as automatic emergency braking and lane departure, and are eligible for listing. This year, a new power station was added to meet the charging and replacing test requirements of new models. " Han Bing, senior manager of the cockpit networking department of Shiqiao Intelligent Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. said.
Tianjin (Xiqing) National Vehicle Networking Pilot Zone was established at the end of 2019, and a three-level test service system of 14.5 million km virtual test site, 1,475 mu closed test site and 24.5 km open test road was built, forming a complete closed loop of intelligent networked vehicle R&D and testing. "Tianjin (Xiqing) National Vehicle Networking Pilot Area has completed the intelligent upgrade of 408 intersections in Xiqing, realizing holographic perception of road traffic information, real-time data processing and multi-point service." Jiang Hongyi, a staff member of Tianjin (Xiqing) National Vehicle Networking Pilot Zone, said. As one of the national-level vehicle networking pilot areas in northern China, Tianjin (Xiqing) vehicle networking pilot area has accumulated experience in infrastructure renovation, digital platform construction and application scenarios, and further helped the rapid evolution of vehicle-road coordination to vehicle-city coordination.
Zhang Yanan, chief expert of China Automotive Technology and Research Center Co., Ltd., believes that the Internet of Vehicles is a complete closed loop formed by vehicles, roads, infrastructure and software algorithms. The integration of intelligent transportation into life will bring about industrial changes in more fields such as automobiles.
Xie Hui, director of the Unmanned Intersection Research Center of Tianjin University, said that not long ago, 48 enterprises including the Unmanned Intersection Research Center of Tianjin University, Zhongqi Zhilian Technology Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Huancheng City Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd. displayed 24 intelligent networking facilities in Xiqing District, such as unmanned patrol guide cars, unmanned delivery cars and solar photovoltaic panels to charge unmanned vehicles, and planned to use more abundant vehicle networking application scenarios in time walk for one year.
In Tianjin (Xiqing), there are still many test and application scenarios of intelligent driving to create a national-level car networking pilot zone. JD.COM unmanned logistics delivery vehicle in Zhangjiawo Town, Xiqing District has been in normal operation for 2 years. Gu Yunbiao, deputy director of Tianjin Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said that by the end of 2023, the key roads in Xiqing District will strive to realize the open road of vehicle networking. By the end of 2024, Tianjin will strive to achieve 1000 kilometers of open roads, and take Xiqing District as the leader and the construction of the pilot area as the traction to accelerate the development of car networking. (Reporter Joline)
Promote industrial ecological agglomeration
In order to promote the upgrading of the traditional automobile industry and cultivate new advantages in industrial development, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province has started to create a national car networking pilot zone since 2019, optimized the research, development, testing and demonstration application environment of intelligent networked vehicles, promoted the industrial agglomeration of intelligent networked vehicles, and built an innovative base for the source of car networking.
"Liuzhou City has completed the construction of the first phase of the car networking pilot area, held national interconnection and large-scale testing activities, and completed 28 sub-intelligent networked car road test/demonstration applications for local car companies such as SAIC-GM-Wuling and Dongfeng Liuqi. License review and issuance work." Zheng Wei, head of the Industrial Development and Data Application Section of Liuzhou Big Data Development Bureau, said.
At present, Liuzhou Vehicle Networking Pilot Area Project (Phase I) has invested 197 million yuan to realize the upgrading of 79.88 kilometers of road networking and 125 intersections, and has completed the deployment of 241 sets of vehicle networking C-V2X roadside equipment (RSU), 476 sets of edge computing units (MEC) and 1090 sets of roadside sensing equipment, creating off-site unmanned logistics scenes, Liuqi city logistics scenes and unmanned logistics vehicle scenes. It also completed the first phase of the public service platform in the vehicle networking pilot area, met the application of seven networked demonstration roads, realized the access management of intelligent transportation equipment, roadside equipment and signs and markings, and provided edge-level, regional-level and city-level vehicle networking application services.
It is understood that the Liuzhou Vehicle Networking Pilot Area Project (Phase II) has completed the project establishment and obtained the approval of the feasibility study report, and the design scheme is being prepared. By the end of this year, it is planned to complete a total investment of about 100 million yuan, and complete the intelligent upgrading of 231 kilometers and 299 intersections of Liuzhou urban trunk roads, forming a full coverage of 5G, car networking network and Beidou high-precision positioning services. By 2025, the planned investment in the construction project of Liuzhou Vehicle Networking Pilot Area is 961 million yuan, which is expected to cover 650 kilometers of smart road network.
At the same time, Liuzhou actively launched investment promotion and promoted the ecological agglomeration of new industries in the Internet of Vehicles. Guide key enterprises in Liuzhou, such as SAIC-GM-Wuling, Dongfeng Liuqi and Guangxi Automobile Group, to accelerate the R&D and production of intelligent networked vehicles and parts. At present, 11 head enterprises of networking such as CITIC Branch Zhilian, Furui Zhixing and Xidi Zhijia have been registered.
In the future, Liuzhou Vehicle Networking Pilot Zone will build a new energy+intelligent networking innovation highland, accelerate the integration of industrial chain innovation chain, provide a policy environment for driverless cars to go on the road, form local standards, actively explore cross-industry standardization work and promote cross-industry interconnection of vehicle networking. "Liuzhou will firmly grasp the development window of the car networking industry, drive the intelligent networked automobile industry gathering such as product research and development, testing and production, and strive to create a scalable and replicable car networking construction model to comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of the automobile industry." Zheng Wei said. (Reporter Tong Zheng)