Huawei partners with Beijing Public Transport for AI & 5G-powered transport services

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Huawei forged a strategic partnership with Beijing Public Transport, the world’s largest public transport service provider, to jointly develop an innovative smart public transport operation model and service ecosystem.

Under the agreement signed on October 10, both parties will conduct cooperation in such fields as the top-level design for digital transformation, intelligent public transport solutions and the industrial standards & regulations.

Additionally, a digital platform powered by big data, AI and 5G technologies will be established by two companies, so as to offer safe, convenient and efficient public transport services.

Beijing Public Transport, located in the populous China's capital Beijing, boasts great experience in public transport operation, which is very crucial for both the industry and companies to accomplish digital transformation. Huawei will take advantage of its own strength in ICT and the partners’ experience to make people, vehicles, routes, bus stations and assets fully connected and digitalized.

As the world's leading ICT device provider, Huawei has been catching lots of attention for any moves associated with auto industry, even though it stressed that “Huawei will never make cars”.

In late September, Huawei and the Chinese biggest SUV maker Great Wall Motor entered into an agreement to extend their partnership into areas like auto connectivity, intelligent driving, smart cockpit, intelligent electrification, cloud service, big data and mobility service.

The cooperation between two parties can trace back to March, 2019, where the 5G-based remote driving technology jointly developed by Great Wall Motor, Huawei and China Mobile was successfully tested at Xushui, Hebei Province. In that test, the latency between a vehicle and devices was reduced to several milliseconds, said Huawei.

Besides, the smart phone maker and the automaker inked a framework agreement in July, 2019 to co-develop auto intelligence, cloud service and big data (Photo source: Huawei).