Baidu’s Robin Li suggests at two sessions: building intelligent traffic solutions for better mobility services

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Robin Li, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and Chairman of China's Internet giant Baidu, proposed at the Two Sessions that the intelligent traffic solutions should be built to make people travel more convenient.

Li said the traffic congestion and safety issue have become a big problem that impedes city's development and results in a huge economic loss. Although some positive effects have been produced after the government pours energy and investment in the infrastructure construction, traditional approaches are still unable to efficiently alleviate the urban traffic jam. Using such new technologies as artificial intelligence (AI) may help create intelligent traffic solutions. In other words, traffic congestion can be relieved and traffic accidents will be decreased by “comprehensively perceiving and controlling in real time” the traffic situation and “executing overall decision-making” over it.

He offered some concrete solutions at the same time. For instance, using the intelligent road network based on such vehicle-road synergy technologies as multi-sensor fusion, the sensing ability of traffic system can be improved and the vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-road information interaction and sharing can be realized, which can efficiently sidestep or lessen traffic accidents and optimize urban smart transportation system. Besides, using such technologies as intelligent cloud, big data and edge computing, a computing platform should be established to prejudge the congestion trend and take preventive measures by analyzing total traffic data. He also suggests that the transport system dispatching ability can be elevated by utilizing intelligent signal light and smart parking systems.

To form the data sharing and using mechanism and encourage regions to explore and build intelligent traffic solutions, Robin Li also advised the government to accelerate the formulation of vehicle-road cooperative system standards, the intelligentization on traffic infrastructures and develop a vehicle-road synergy management platform. What's more, the government should deploy intelligent signal light and smart parking systems in some cities with mature conditions first and then extend these applications nationwide.