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Beijing will be supporting the development of intelligent
connected vehicles (ICVs) to ensure their usage in the 2022 Winter
Olympics, reports Xinhua News Agency, citing a white paper issued
by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information
Technology. According to the paper, the ICV industry is expected to
reach around CNY100 billion (USD14.4 billion) by 2022. The city of
Beijing will set up a 50,000-hectare (500-square-kilometre) pilot
zone and over 2,000 km of roads for the testing of ICVs. Beijing
will also speed up the development of an intelligent traffic
system.
Significance: ICVs can help ease traffic
congestion, enhance traffic safety, and reduce emissions. The
Chinese government is strongly supporting autonomous and connected
vehicle technology as it begins to fast-track the sector in the
country and the Beijing city authorities seem to be leading these
efforts. In September, Beijing's city authorities named 11 roads
where self-driving vehicles will be tested to push the development
of technology, in addition to the 33 roads opened in March. This is
in line with the regulations released earlier this year by China's
ministries of industry and information technology, public security,
and transport. These regulations allow local government authorities
to arrange road tests of ICVs. In December 2017, the municipal
government of Beijing was the first to release policies for
self-driving vehicles on the city's roads, followed by
Shanghai.
Posted 22 October 2018 by Nitin Budhiraja, Senior Analyst II
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