The 14th Asian Intelligent Transportation Forum opened in Nanjing on Apr 27, showing various new transport technologies that lead the development trend.
The project named “Key Technology Research of Road-vehicle Smart Cooperation” of Tsinghua University attracted wide attention in the exhibition. Wang Xiao, a PhD student from Automotive College of Tsinghua University in charge of this project, said it equals to semi-automatic unmanned driving because the whole driving process except the steering wheel is under automatic control.
Whether the traffic route selections of the inner city or the intercity transportation options can be managed by a mobile application named “Traffic Eye on Road Conditions”. Based on the primary data of taxis, buses, traffic police detachments, traffic lights, etc, covering buses, subways, taxis, private cars, even public bicycles, this application can provide optimal traffic routes for its users, said the developer Gu Jun.
You Qingzhong, the director-general of the Communications Department of Jiangsu Province, said that the rapid development of technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data and mobile internet exerts great influence on people’s travel, and since the Public Travel Information Service System of Jiangsu has been established and already run on line, the vehicle owners can know the highway conditions of the entire province and select the best routes indoors.
