5G technology enables smart transportation, and operators add more ingredients to make the cake bigger

Recently, the Ministry of Transport, together with the National Standards Committee, the Railway Bureau, the Civil Aviation Administration, and the Postal Administration, jointly issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Transportation Standardization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The "Plan" clearly states that by 2025, a high-quality standard system for transportation will be basically established, the standardization operation mechanism will be more sound, the internationalization level of standards will be significantly improved, and the role of standardization in supporting the acceleration of building a strong transportation country and building a national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will be more prominent. Transportation is the main artery of national economic development, and smart transportation plays a key role in promoting my country's modernization process. After the "14th Five-Year Plan" was issued, operators have actively responded and leveraged the advantages of 5G technology to empower the smart transportation industry.

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Planning for smart transportation in the 14th Five-Year Plan

Liu Zhenkui, deputy director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Transport, said in an interview that the "Plan" is positioned as a comprehensive transportation special plan, covering five major areas: railways, highways, waterways, civil aviation and postal services, and covering five levels of national, industry, local, group and enterprise standards, including five aspects such as policy and system, technical standards, internationalization, implementation supervision, and support and guarantee, to guide the standardization work of the entire industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The "Plan" mainly includes four parts: current situation and situation, overall thinking, key tasks, and guarantee measures.

There are seven key tasks. In the field of smart transportation, the Plan proposes to promote the construction of new infrastructure, the application of new generation information and communication technology, and the construction of a smart transportation innovation system, accelerate the formulation and revision of key technologies and common basic standards in smart transportation technology, data resource integration, and Beidou navigation system applications, and improve the level of transportation informatization. The policy has been issued to clarify the general direction and future goals of the transportation industry. The next step is to see how it is implemented.

Operators empower smart transportation construction

The era of the Internet of Everything has arrived. Telecom operators have joined hands with all walks of life based on their own advantages. Through in-depth cooperation in the fields of Internet of Vehicles, 5G communications, smart transportation, etc., they are actively promoting the integration and innovation of the automotive industry and the communications field.

China Telecom

In Anhui, China Telecom and Beijing Digital Government Company have carried out all-round and diversified cooperation around the information construction in the fields of digital housing and construction, smart urban management, and smart transportation; in Jiangsu, China Telecom and Kunshan Municipal Transportation Bureau signed a party-building alliance agreement to jointly explore the innovative development of smart transportation enabled by technologies such as 5G+; in Yunnan, China Telecom reached a strategic cooperation with Lenovo and ZTE, adopting the 5G+ Internet of Vehicles construction model, and simultaneously completed two pilot projects in Chuxiong and Kunming, building road safety control functions.

China Unicom

Jiujiang Unicom recently held a hearing on the construction of a smart transportation comprehensive platform with the Hukou County Transportation Bureau of Jiangxi Province to jointly build a smart transportation comprehensive platform.

China Mobile

Hubei Mobile recently worked with Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone and Chebai Zhilian to create the country's largest, most diverse open road autonomous driving demonstration zone with full 5G access.

Operators add ingredients to expand the smart transportation pie

Ren Hongbin, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, once said, "The scale of China's smart transportation market was 354.7 billion yuan in 2020, and it is expected to reach 694.8 billion yuan in 2025, with an average annual growth rate of 14.39%." The United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, Chang Qide, believes that "smart travel has become an important tool for global manufacturing production and upgrading, and can help achieve seamless integration between transportation modes, including on-demand rides and autonomous driving, which can help us reshape the travel ecosystem." Smart transportation is an important part of the new infrastructure and has accelerated the advancement of my country's strategy of building a strong transportation country.

5G is the first of the new infrastructure, and operators are the core force in it. They need to cooperate with other industries to further integrate and coexist. First, the country needs to continue to point out the direction for the smart transportation industry, government departments need to increase support, and government-enterprise collaboration needs to generate stronger momentum; second, all manufacturers need to actively cooperate, and software and hardware developers need to perform their respective duties, focus on assisting, and jointly develop smart travel projects with the automotive industry to actively build an industrial ecosystem; finally, operators themselves should make full use of 5G to provide the most tenacious technical support for smart transportation, so that "Internet of Everything" can be implemented in the transportation system.