Intelligent Transportation compromise in China


Information is not ITS, the ITS is a tool and means nothing but an attempt to change both through the technology point of departure is undoubtedly the status quo is a risky thing, and whether the "people" ITS will determine the success or failure.

More and more people begin to solve the problem of urban traffic congestion to do positive thinking.Some initiatives, McDonald's, KFC to implement real-time delivery service to ensure that the ground blocking the road and passengers Buzhi Yu cold and hunger; bus car manufacturer to install toilets in the city bus rear emergency preparedness solutions for use ... ... and the embarrassment of the government isthought of ITS.

Rapid economic development are to blame

ITS Intelligent transport system is short, and, like all the other means that the abbreviation of the advanced and the trend is destined to the same with the ERP and other outcomes in the Chinese variation.Although as early as 1994, after the first ITS World Congress that it will be in the United States, Europe and other developed countries have started, now has been seriously developing countries including China, but the difference between the actual situation in various countries will allow the fate of different ITS.National ITS Center Director Wang Xiao Jing said: We can not all hardware facilities such as the development of good, come and solve the traffic problem, the way to solve this problem can only be caught with both hands: one to increase investment in transportation infrastructure; more importantOne is to use information technology as the leading ITS technology.Chinese experts also pointed out that Professor Chen Gan: ITS is not too deep to not adapted to developing countries, Moreover, China has developed good enough.Overall lack of investment in infrastructure and transport planning and local surplus can not change the status of the case, ITS as the most effective solution to non-fundamental tool.Our hands are not always suitable for grasping with both hands to do.

"Basic transportation by walking, by the roar of basic communication" era, and as China's economic development is not be resolved, especially in the vast central and western regions.National "Tenth Five" forecast of economic development, transportation will remain a high growth rate, average annual growth rate of carriage of goods which will be about 3.5%; passenger traffic will grow at around 7%.In 2005 the overall level of demand for passenger and freight transport in China are: the whole society cargo volume about 165 million tons of cargo turnover of about 4.9 trillion tons km, passenger transport volume of the whole society about 210 million people, about 17,000 million passengers turnover km.The city's vehicle population is the rapid rate of 15% growth, while the growth rate of urban roads, compared with only about 3%, this contradiction to include Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing and other cities are faced with poor transportand insecurity.At the same time, inefficient use and management of technology behind the phenomenon of coexistence, but also exacerbated the difficulties caused by shortage of transport facilities.Rapid economic development and accelerated urbanization process, so that China's urban transport infrastructure under enormous pressure, especially the lack of coordination of economic development.Urbanization, urban-rural gap as a solution to eliminate urban-rural wealth gap and effective means to repeatedly test was repeated cool local governments.The one-sided urbanization will bring a series of complications, including the automotive industry to stimulate the real estate bubble and bring prosperity steel investment overheating.

Missing chain acquired under less than

If the uncoordinated development of the economy led to increased urbanization after the increase the demand for ITS is priori reason, then the incomplete industry chain will be the body of ITS development incomplete.ITS is an industry already, and who do not admit it, whoever is not a Marxist.Vice President Zhang Lianhua sung all l such a view seems to be expressed.The Tianjin University Jiaoshou Guoguang is given a different opinion that role in development of transport in turn: policy, management systems, socio-economic, planning, design and management tools.And it seems at best can only be counted ITS planning and design and management tools into.The size of the traffic impact of the decision of the efforts to promote the development of transportation in China.The best hope, the Chinese government seems to be affected by ITS policy, management system, such as their own constraints.Really left to play right.

Policy level, the year's most noteworthy than the "People's Republic of China on Road Traffic Safety Law" into effect, and Beijing last revised SGX law.SGX implementation of the law raised the cost of law, also provides the vehicle and the insurance companies take full responsibility Xianhangpeifu, no-fault liability would reduce the principle of reciprocity.In discussing these principles, a single legal changes can not completely guarantee pedestrian rights, "Road Traffic Safety Law" changed and "Insurance Law" does not change; "security regulations" to modify, while for the object it has changed.Apparently led lawmakers ignored the situation as a whole domino effect.

In addition, ITS related to the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, public security departments, the Ministry of Information Industry, the financial credit sector, standards committees, etc., national co-ordination between departments is not easy.Zhang Xinsheng, deputy director of Science and Technology Ministry of Information Industry said: information technology sector to provide policy guidance for ITS, such as document No. 18.Intelligent traffic on the standardization of electronic technology, "Integrated Intelligent Transport System technical specifications of electronic information", "matters concerning the use of 5.8GHz frequency band," and other were introduced, in 2003 ITS listed in the "digital key application areas."The rapid development of information industry, to bring the promotion to other areas, and in the key areas of technology, information industry is not enough to stay firm to the development of ITS bottlenecks, such as WAPI, 3G and so on.Beijing has established a strong information-gathering system, but the release of information but can not be achieved due to insufficient export, transport radio and billboard advertising a limited release of information is clearly demand for the huge drop in the bucket city.

Industry level, application software development for ITS key technology R & D in China is still not formed a production mainstream.Data fusion levels of the fusion, feature fusion, decision level fusion and data warehouse, data mining, artificial intelligence and expert system technology has not been further attention, the face of such a huge market, the official - Science - Research - Productionno one model can not be missing.Hubei Province will invest 166 billion overall, before the World Expo Shanghai will invest nearly a hundred.Spawned a huge market is not enough industry entities.Whether the domestic IT providers to personalize the cake is also worth taking advantage of sub-wait and see, at the same time, IBM, Cisco, Hyde control system and other major international E has occupied a considerable share.

In addition, a scientific project evaluation system has not been established.Invested heavily in the transport industry as the project's output efficiency must be effectively budget and control.The assessment of foreign models have very mature.The United States in the 20th century to realize the importance of the early 90s, the European Union and Japan also lead an advanced mode like.Makes scientific evaluation system to generate a lot of shabby work, the lack of accountability can not be held responsible.

Standards battle fatigue

Standard is the rule.From the WAPI and TD-CDMA, EVD, etc. It appears that China has a paper tiger standards battle is suspected.We began to find there are two overriding importance of information technology standards: Technology patent and market forces.Technical standards because it contains patented technology become the object of competition, technical standards and market forces are the basis for truly become industry standards.Not every country can set standards, and only with a strong market forces to support the technical standards to pop.ITS standards that China is facing the beginning of the oppression of foreign standards with domestic offend local standards.Lack of market power is to make the TD-CDMA support with the EVD, WAPI is not the final outcome of such a key reason.

Standardization Administration of Dr. Wang Junwei that: the current system of national standards and revise the management problems are the main changes in ideas is not enough to keep up with our pace of economic and social development, national standards for the effectiveness of the system operating mechanism revision poor technical standard system is not perfect, national standards review, revision is not timely, standardized the legal system is lagging behind, the basis of standardization work is weak.National ITS Center Dr. Yang Qi of the National ITS expression too complex, too special situation of China national standards and other obstacles as soon as possible the views of many experts put the beginning of the feedback received.The Communication Research Institute, Nanjing University, CHEN Qi-mei, deputy director, has a different opinion: the standard on the center will increase the standard system is too detailed to establish the cost.Seemed to imply that if the technology is mature enough, then the immature way of thinking is that we resolve to change.He told reporters: standard must have a clear objective, to be specific not abstract, not to talk to is practical, standards must be combined with the practical needs, the standard is a descriptive framework, standards must be interactive and enforceable.Chen insisted that China's development is very dry the incredible need to have their own standards, different countries or regions can have different standards, the global ITS information sharing, the standard is a framework specification for the detailed planning of different places.In fact international standards bodies of China have always been given to kill the bold.From November 5 the WAPI obstruct the international application by the visa can be seen.

And not because the central place of stagnation and status quo.Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong and other places have begun to set their own standards.The state hopes the national ITS framework in place to refine the formation of local standards condition did not appear.Local standards to national standards and international standards to offend the deformation made in China, China's huge market and ITS failed to grasp the opportunity to decide on their own.State weakness in the standard setting on the ITS standards will make China faces international standards and local standards for the domestic double pressure.

In 2001 it snow

No one can forget the December 7, 2001 Beijing was snow, not snow, but very lethal.Similarly, a sudden heavy rain this summer to Beijing a bubble not a small sauna, and November 8 of that field winter rain, making traffic jams than usual increase of 30%.So, people said Beijing was "blocking the city."

People do not feel the government's efforts to work, in fact, the Beijing government has spent on the cost of transport can be huge to describe.Zhang told reporters the fact that the whole rise.What is the first side of the building of infrastructure or the edge of the system, Chen dry that can not allow the system to replace the infrastructure, if the overall planning of the natural is the best choice.The Huilongguan, Tiantongyuan and other new residential construction to a blocking phenomenon has shown, first create a community of practice and then build roads is undoubtedly right and wrong move.Zhang Sihua, vice president of Cisco China, told reporters: Beijing as a special structure of the city, when the key is in the implementation of ITS systems and high-quality stable and reliable operation.To this end, Cisco solutions in the design of three aspects in particular Shihai provide effective protection: bandwidth management, quality of service (QoS) and IP multicast.The product has also been carefully designed based on demand.The original Cisco's networking solutions because Beijing has repeatedly modify the current situation involving the integration of existing voice, video, data networks, to fully protect the original investment in integrated IP voice solutions to address the basic unit of telephone traffic problems.Optimize network multicast design to ensure that video surveillance images to the above and Urban sharing, ITS's advanced greatly reduced, this can not be said that ITS is not a compromise with Beijing.

IBM 则 With its ability to integrate on demand applications.It also copied to the ITS field, IBM's Software Division Architects Mr. Gao Weiming is pointed out that the underlying system platform architecture connectivity, integration and integrated information platform in the other modules to become an organic whole, as the information platform of relevant modules to provide "plug-in"type of middleware applications to accelerate the effective management of road network.Demand seems designed for China.

Traffic control department of Beijing people have been sitting on grievances of the volcano.If it is not the Olympic Games, Beijing will be like?IOC President Jacques Rogge's "frugality is not the purpose of the Olympics, success is" the speech but also cost the Chinese people do not know how much.These money will be used to enable Liuliqiao transportation hub, bus rapid way, while 200 kilometers of Beijing and then planning for transportation construction projects.Liu Xiaoming, director of Beijing Transportation Commission, said this year of 300 billion.Over the past 10 years, the city's transportation infrastructure investment totaled 129.9 billion yuan, accounting for the same period of 5.32% GDP, total investment in transportation construction in 2003 is to reach 20.8 billion yuan, accounting for the proportion of GDP to 5.67%.Huge amounts of money down, do not know whether the new Beijing transportation system to enhance the carrying power.The huge capital investment, but in the wrong way to make up for existing.Beijing had the pie of urban planning, are now finally be solved with money.

Off "people-based" what

Wang Xiaojing adhere to the development of intelligent transportation should consider national interests and the interests of the majority and the current practice in the academic needs of the influence does not explain the level to rise to the national will.The new "Road Traffic Safety Law" and "law and order regulations of punishing" unilaterally amend the law to ensure that the "people-oriented."However, the presumption of liability without fault insurance identification difficulties and blocked Xianxingpeifu the new law does not allow much useless.Without a sound legal protection.Harbin, like BMW butt will not stop the event.

More puzzling is, a traffic police responsible for the trailer, told reporters: "Every month, the provisions of dead tasks, must be delayed at least 80, a penalty of 200 cars a month is sixteen thousand. If not finish,Sorry, no prize money was. "irrational people-oriented incentive system and the opposite direction.Mao Yushi, an economist, said: "The road is a cost, not only for ordinary people pay taxes to build roads, and let the rich and powerful people use." Economist is to analyze the social economy and income distribution groups, equal or notThey are not considered core.And legal experts say the tax levied on the rich and more unreasonable, because it is not fair.This corresponds to the recent past, "Lang Gu", what is the efficiency of the first or the fair first.It appears that the scientific concept of development and "people first" have to be like the "Three Represents" as from top to bottom to carry Caixing.

Shiliu Tai developed a "people-oriented" a number of initiatives, proposed the "five balances."The urban-rural divide, the gap between rich and poor is still widening.Gome Huang Guangyu, the boss is sitting on 100 billion and is lying on the roadside Gongzhufen's full of beggars.Another phenomenon worth considering is the crossroads after the implementation of SGX law, not known for ease congestion, do walkers have the spirit of "people first" principle of unbridled anti-those who make the car more of a caution.Blend of people and vehicles, the size of the phenomenon of cut in the same car with Chinese characteristics, and has always been a law-abiding foreigners also do as the Romans.Liang Xiaosheng crossing the road when traveling in Europe, an old lady and not because there is no car to stop, reason: perhaps the children upstairs to see the opposite, he was later to do so would be dangerous.What to whom people-oriented oriented, people are doing what solution, it seems that the realm of foreigners is still higher than ours.And Beijing is the lack of adequate overpass or underpass, in the City of Victoria in any one place to take up to 20 minutes by bus, the subway even more.Compared to London, from any location within 5 points to the nearest subway too far worse.Not to focus on building public transportation construction, the "people" always looked awkward.

And "using information technology to promote industrialization, promotion of information" of the national strategy, the rapid development of information industry has not gone up to promote the progress of ITS.After all, the transport information is not the ultimate goal of ITS, but not the entire contents of ITS, information does not equal intelligence.Improve transportation system performance is intelligent transportation, including the information processing itself, but also intelligent.Development of information industry you want to catch the Clippers, ITS seems to miss many opportunities.Beijing Municipal Committee of the Gang told reporters: Currently, the Beijing Transportation Committee is to submit a number of studies have demonstrated the municipal government to review and present on the input and output assessment, state of progress and so no results, while the phenomenon of traffic congestion not only due to technicaland roads, but also the quality of a relationship with the people, the traffic committee can only do what they can do.Authorities did not appear to people as a fait accompli, the low quality of the reference design factors.Also involves many departments and personnel, accountability up and, naturally, "law is not responsible for the masses" or simply can not find the object of blame.They will not American standards in China's road to repair it, and that no cars are to suffer it!