On the afternoon of December 23, with the departure of the 40,000 TEUs in 2021, the "quasi-commercial operation" of the "5G+L4" autonomous intelligent heavy-duty truck container transshipment business of Shanghai Yangshan Port achieved a new breakthrough in stages.
This is China's first intelligent driving container transshipment business. On the world's largest container terminal, Yangshan DeepWater Port, one after another smart heavy-duty trucks depart from Yangshan Port Terminal, drive over the East China Sea Bridge, and arrive at the Deepwater Port Logistics Park.
What is the significance of the smart heavy truck project? Fang Huaijin, vice president of SIPG Group, introduced that the first intelligence brings about the improvement of efficiency, a skilled driver driving a truck into the work area takes an average of about one and a half minutes, and the smart heavy truck has been able to do within 70 seconds.
Secondly, the significance of the smart heavy truck project is that it can release the traffic capacity of the East China Sea Bridge. After more than ten years of development, the Yangshan Port Area of Shanghai Port has also undergone earth-shaking changes, and the continuous improvement of throughput has also put forward higher requirements for the traffic capacity of the East China Sea Bridge. Now, the tidal effect of the traffic flow of the East China Sea Bridge is obvious, the congestion during the peak period is serious, if you can use the 24-hour operation of the automatic driving intelligent heavy truck, you can achieve peak shaving and valley filling, so that the traffic flow of the East Sea Bridge is more even, reducing congestion and improving efficiency.
In addition, these smart heavy trucks are not only "smart cars", but also "green cars", the relevant person in charge of SAIC Motor Said, the next will launch pure electric, even hydrogen energy smart heavy trucks, so that the port development is more green and sustainable.
In recent years, under the active coordination and organization of Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission, SAIC Motor, SIPG Group, China Mobile Shanghai Company and other project implementation units have worked closely together, after more than two years of technical iteration, pilot operation, tracking evaluation and exploration summary, intelligent heavy trucks basically have the "Yangshan Port Terminal - Donghai Bridge - Deepwater Port Logistics Park" route of automatic driving and cargo transportation capacity, has now accumulated about 61,000 TEUs of transshipment containers.
The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Transportation Commission said that as a system project, the Yangshan Port intelligent heavy-duty truck demonstration operation project needs to be promoted in an orderly manner from the aspects of intelligent networked vehicle product research and development and functional testing, system integration and information exchange, data collection and road assessment, cost control and process management, system reliability improvement and large-scale demonstration operation. At present, the "5G+L4" intelligent heavy truck integrates advanced technologies such as AI, 5G, V2X vehicle-connected communication, etc., opens up the whole business chain process between "intelligent vehicles, fleet management, logistics scheduling, and port operations", and realizes L4-level automatic driving, centimeter-level positioning, accurate parking (±3cm), interaction with automated port machinery equipment and Donghai Bridge queue driving in specific scenarios in the port area, providing port transport users with a smarter, safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly container transfer program.
It is reported that at present, SAIC Youdao Zhitu has a total of 14 smart heavy trucks put into operation, and has achieved 5-car formation operation, and the minimum distance between the front and rear vehicles can be controlled at about 16 meters. According to the plan, more than 30 smart heavy trucks will be invested next year to achieve the annual target of 100,000 TEUs quasi-commercial operation.
In the future, the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission will strive to promote a comprehensive breakthrough in technology, commerce and law, and strive to build a world-leading intelligent collection and transportation system for sea-public railways (sea-highway-railway) under the premise of ensuring safety, economy and efficiency, promote the self-driving level of smart heavy trucks and the level of demonstration operation projects, and actively build an intelligent networked vehicle industry system and application ecology with Shanghai characteristics. At the same time, we will give full play to Shanghai's advantages such as strong intelligent manufacturing strength, developed international shipping market, and rich transportation application scenarios, and enhance Shanghai's urban digital energy level.