Recently, the Ministry of Transport and the State Administration for Market Regulation announced the first batch of national service industry standardization pilot projects (smart transportation special projects), with a total of 25 pilot projects selected. The pilot project focuses on three major directions: smart logistics, smart travel and related new infrastructure, with the goal of establishing and improving a smart transportation standard system, continuously promoting the verification of complete sets of standards and the development of advanced standards, improving the basic capabilities of standardization, and strengthening the implementation and application of standards.

　　In the direction of smart logistics, the focus is on assisting technological innovation with standards, promoting cost reduction, quality and efficiency of transportation logistics, and setting up pilot projects such as postal express digital processing centers, automatic delivery of goods, intelligent shipping, smart navigation of inland hubs, port unmanned card collection, electric ships, and international shipping blockchain electronic bill of lading services.

　　In the direction of smart travel, we focus on using standards to help model innovation, ensuring efficient and convenient transportation services, and establish pilot projects such as integrated highway and waterway travel, digital and intelligent governance of comprehensive passenger transport hubs, smart travel on expressways and ordinary national and provincial trunk roads, urban rail transit and bus smart travel.

　　In the direction of new infrastructure, we will strive to accelerate the construction of a new infrastructure standard system for transportation, guide the digital transformation and upgrading of infrastructure, and set up pilot projects such as smart highways, smart urban rails, bridges and tunnels, and disaster prevention and control, and low-altitude flight service guarantee. (Reporter Han Xin)

[Editor in charge: Zhou Jingjie]