GAC-backed Ontime partners with NavInfo for smart transportation advancement

Beijing (Gasgoo)- GAC Group's ride-hailing service platform, Ontime, entered into a strategic partnership with NavInfo, a leading Chinese automotive intelligence developer, to jointly create products and services for enhancement of travel experience.

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The partnership will leverage the strengths of both companies to collaborate in the areas of high-precision maps, autonomous driving applications, and smart transportation.

In the high-precision map field, NavInfo and Ontime will seek to optimize the cost of producing high-precision maps while exploring the possibility of dynamic updates, to create a benchmark demonstration platform for autonomous vehicle operation and dynamic map updates in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Are (“Greater Bay Area”).

The companies will also explore cooperation in data compliance, including legal and regulatory compliance for data collection, desensitization of geospatial data, personal privacy protection, and compliance system operation.

Ontime will drive the joint participation in customizing Robotaxi vehicles in the autonomous driving application field. NavInfo and Ontime will together create smart transportation solutions for urban governance or C-V2X applications to expand traffic industry customers and businesses.

As the smart travel platform under GAC Group, Ontime has been in operation since June 2019, covering seven business segments including ride-hailing, corporate travel, carpooling, car service, designated driving, online taxi-hailing, and Robotaxi. The platform continues to build a multi-dimensional travel ecosystem with a user penetration rate of over 30% in core cities of the Greater Bay Area.

Ontime has already created the first truly open autonomous driving operation technology system in China, launched Robotaxi operation supervision platform and Robotaxi operation vehicle management system, and operate a mixed operation of both manned and unmanned ride-hailing service in Guangzhou.