The 4th “Future-Oriented Internet of Vehicles” Seminar was held in Shanghai last weekend The seminar was co-sponsored by Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science (SICS), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and FuTURE Promotion Committee, and co-organized by Shanghai University. In the context of the country's "New Infrastructure" and the construction of a powerful transportation country, the seminar deeply explored hot topics such as the Internet of Vehicles and vehicle-road collaborative industry promotion, digital transformation of the transportation industry, autonomous driving, communication perception fusion and 5G evolution.

The FuTURE Promotion Committee is a non-profit international association organized by well-known mobile communication operators, equipment manufacturers, scientific research institutions, colleges and universities and other units at home and abroad, with the joint support of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). It aims to promote the technical exchange and information communication in the future mobile communication field represented by 5G and jointly develop the mainstream mobile communication technology. Zhang Xinsheng, Vice President of FuTURE Promotion Committee, and Miao Junhai, General Manager of Huawei C-V2X Vehicle-Road Collaboration, said on behalf of the organizer, that the IoV needs to be continuously innovated to drive the development of the whole field; at the same time, the IoV must be coordinated across industries and explored together to achieve commercial success. Han Dadong, Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Promotion Division of Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission (SHEITC), introduced the idea of promoting the development of the IoV industry in Shanghai, explored the test of the IoV opening to the whole region, and proposed three breakthroughs in the demonstration scenarios, business models and institutional norms of the IoV.

Experts from the National Intelligent Transport Systems Center of Engineering and Technology (ITSC), Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security (TMRI), China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and the East China Branch of CAICT, Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of CAS (MICROSAT), Shanghai University, Peking University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, etc., made keynote speeches. Professor Xu Shugong, President of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science (SICS), presided over the theme dialogue and discussion, and the participants made an in-depth discussion on "the status quo and countermeasures of the IoV and vehicle-road collaboration."

The experts have reached many consensuses that the digital transformation in the field of transportation is a key element of vehicle-road collaboration. It is necessary to build key capabilities such as road infrastructure digitization, communication perception fusion and Beidou satellite cooperative localization, and promote the independent innovation and sound development of the whole industry chain. At the same time, the experts also proposed that the main body of IoV operation should be defined as soon as possible, and the adaptation of laws and regulations should be improved as soon as possible for opening to the whole region; and promote, as soon as possible, the integration of three systems, i.e. vehicle, road and network, urban digital transformation, the establishment of a benefit-sharing mechanism in the whole industry chain, and a new ecology of in-depth interaction between industry, universities and research institutes.