The world's first!Is the 430 -kilometer highway running only unmanned trucks, is it reliable?

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Text/Chen Haoxing

Hundreds of hydrogen energy unmanned heavy trucks, 7x24 hours, are universal throughout the year to transport cargo on the special line. This is like a movie -like scene that is about to enter the reality.

In recent years, with the rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G communication, and big data, autonomous vehicles have been accelerated and applied, and the research and development tests have been gradually transferred to actual operations. A few days ago, the commercial vehicle autonomous driving company Ka Zhixing Corage announced that it has participated in the construction of the world's first self -driving trunk logistics line "Jiuquan to Mingshui Green Digital Special Highway" construction, and will soon carry out the long -distance scene road test of autonomous driving trunk logistics and Prepare operation.

What changes can this special highway bring to highway logistics? How to avoid road safety hazards?

Why do I need a digital -dedicated road?

According to the technical team of the China Transportation Construction Group's First Highway Survey and Design Institute, the total length of Jiuquan to Mingshui Green Digital Road is about 430 kilometers. It is a highway specially born to meet the transportation of cargo logistics.

The special highway is located in the hinterland of Hexi Corridor. The lines are deserted and unmanned along the line, and the terrain is flat. The conditions are designed with full -closed, full path, and full sections for new energy cargo vehicles. In response to the natural environment, logistics needs and technical requirements of Jiuming Highway, Card Wisdom designed and developed corresponding low -energy, low -cost heavy truck autonomous driving solutions.

What are the technical differences in the commercial heavy truck responsible for transporting goods and Robotaxi and other autonomous driving taxis? The founder and CEO of Ka Zhizhixing said that the biggest difference between road transportation and Robotaxi is the difference between manned and cargo. The most important thing for the former is safe from point A to B. The most important thing for loading is efficient from point A to B. Although "teacher out of the same door", the focus of autonomous driving technology is different.

Recently, the Ministry of Transport has publicly solicited opinions on the "Guide to Automobile Transportation Safety Service (Trial)", which mentioned that under the premise of ensuring transportation safety, encourage autonomous driving Car engage in road transportation operation activities on roads.

Wang Bin, Dean of the First Highway Survey and Design Institute of China Transport Construction Group, bluntly stated that there are many pain points in the development of highway trunk logistics transportation, such as logistics costs and high dependence and excessive consumption of fossil energy, which will cause unnecessary resources waste.

"China's highway mileage has ranked first in the world. It is impossible to restrict more than 100,000 kilometers of highways in large areas, and it is mainly to improve quality and efficiency around existing highways." Wang Bin added Autonomous driving technology to reduce the cost of logistics and improve the efficiency of logistics is the original intention of planning and designing the road of autonomous driving dry line logistics lines.

How to solve road safety hazards?

Is there a hidden safety hazard in the road of self -driving trunk line logistics line? Wang Bin said that the current trunk logistics line road does not serve public transportation or people. Instead, it serves freight. The main service target is the logistics transportation of large mineral resources.

Thanks to deep integration technologies such as highway basic hardware facilities, 5G digital technology, and intelligent control equipment, it is easier to achieve high -level unmanned driving in the closed road scenario of freight. Essence

In response to the problem of road safety hazards that may exist objective reasons, traffic accidents caused by unfavorable factors of vehicles, roads, and environmental conditions, Wang Bin pointed out that unlike ordinary highways setting up emergency lanes on both sides, the emergency lanes of autonomous driving trunk logistics lines In the middle of the road. The first phase of the road is planned to have 600 hydrogen energy heavy trucks. Once the vehicle problem occurs, heavy trucks will temporarily stop in the emergency lane in the middle.

At the same time, the logistics line is also equipped with a 5G network, and engineers can manually control through remote operations. "If the vehicle problem is very serious, we are equipped with rescue vehicles at the same time, which will ensure that the autonomous driving trunk logistics line is unblocked as a whole."

Improper "carbon discharge monster" heavy truck

Highway transportation bears more than 70%of the freight volume of the whole society. According to data from the China Automobile Industry Association, the current volume of commercial vehicles in the country is about 40 million, accounting for 10.9%of the country's total automobiles, but its carbon emissions account for nearly 65%of all vehicle carbon emissions. Among them, heavy truck carbon emissions account for 83.5%, which is a key model of all carbon emission reduction vehicles.

How to "reduce carbon reduction" by heavy trucks? According to Wang Bin, Jiuquan to Mingshui Green Digital Special Highway is the product of the new and old kinetic energy conversion in the field of China's highway trunk logistics. There is a very rich renewable energy source in the local area. The Jiuquan area is known as the "Three Gorges on the Land". Wind power and clean energy power generation resources are very rich, which can achieve low -cost manufacturing green hydrogen. Use this low -priced clean energy for electrolytic water, and then use hydrogen energy as an energy supply method for future green digital -specific roads.

The technical team of the First Highway Survey and Design Research Institute of China Transport Construction Group stated that as an important component element of the road freight industry, medium -heavy trucks are at a critical moment when low -carbonized and applied autonomous driving to obtain potential economic benefits. The project plans to use hydrogen -energy heavy trucks on this road, and build hydrogen refueling stations and transshipment yards on the road. The hydrogen energy degradation time is about 10-15 minutes, and only one fuel injection is required a day to effectively achieve a satisfactory range.

"This time participating in the design of the world's first autonomous driving new energy logistics line, it opened a new route of Chinese commercial vehicle autonomous driving 'and new energy.Driving technology is precisely landed in the field of trunk logistics. Following the process of commercial vehicle new energy, it finally achieves a win -win situation of new energyization and autonomous driving of commercial vehicles. "Xian Xianqiao said.Source: Country is through traffic

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