China will use scenario applications as the driving force and technological innovation as the driving force to systematically promote the large-scale innovative application of artificial intelligence technology in the field of transportation. The six innovative projects of intelligent driving of large channel trucks, autonomous formation navigation of inland waterway freight ships, intelligent control and disposal of major disasters on highways, toll collection for free flow on highways, high-speed maglev systems, and low altitude land air cooperation will be fully deployed and implemented during the 15th Five Year Plan period. This is the information learned by a reporter from the Economic Reference Daily from the regular press conference held by the Ministry of Transport on October 29th. Xu Wenqiang, Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Transport, stated that through the "technology+engineering" model, we will promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. On the one hand, we will strengthen scientific research support through key projects, and on the other hand, we will rely on the implementation of key engineering projects to create a number of major landmark projects with industry leadership. The "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" released on October 28th clearly states the comprehensive implementation of the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, using artificial intelligence to lead the paradigm shift in scientific research, strengthening the combination of artificial intelligence with industrial development, cultural construction, livelihood security, and social governance, seizing the high ground of artificial intelligence industry application, and empowering thousands of industries in all aspects. Transportation has unique advantages such as diverse scenarios and rich data, making it an important application area of artificial intelligence. When it comes to the key work recently promoted, Xu Wenqiang revealed that the "15th Five Year Plan" national science and technology major projects will further focus on building an intelligent comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, strengthen the layout of research and development of key technologies for the integration of artificial intelligence and transportation, organize innovative entities to collaborate on research and development, tackle major technologies, research and develop key equipment, and innovate development models. The transportation model we are building does not specifically refer to a particular product, but rather adopts a '1+N+X' architecture to coordinate the development of algorithm libraries, datasets, and toolchains for artificial intelligence innovation applications by various innovative forces. ”Xu Wenqiang said, "We will develop intelligent agents for road network operation monitoring, safety warning, and emergency command and dispatch in the fields of highways, waterways, and comprehensive transportation, and build a 'smart brain' and 'data center' with wider coverage, stronger functions, smoother collaboration, and safe controllability. Accelerating scenario innovation applications is the core focus of carrying out the 'artificial intelligence+transportation' action. The Ministry of Transport has fully launched the "Ten Hundred Thousand" innovation action of artificial intelligence+transportation, systematically promoting scene openness and demonstration applications. Focusing on the "ten" key areas of intelligent driving, smart highways, smart railways, smart shipping, smart civil aviation, smart postal services, smart construction and maintenance, smart travel services, smart logistics, and smart safety supervision, we have laid out over "a hundred" pilot demonstrations to drive the participation of thousands of innovative entities. We will also comprehensively consider the maturity of technology and the representativeness of scenarios, and divide them into two categories: breakthrough research and application demonstration. We will promote them according to local conditions and categories, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, form a batch of replicable and promotable solutions, continuously stimulate and lead the development of new quality productivity, and provide strong support for accelerating the construction of a strong transportation country. ”Xu Wenqiang said. (New Society)