Recently, with the approval of the China Geospatial Information Industry Association, the Digital Twin Transportation Application Industry-Academia-Research Integration Innovation Technology Committee (referred to as: the Technology Committee) was officially established, with Beijing Brilliant   Technology Co., Ltd. as the leading member unit, and the Four-Type Airport Research Institute of China Civil Aviation University, the Tangshan Research Institute of Beijing Jiaotong University, and Dalian University of Technology as deputy director member units. The Technology Committee will focus on the innovative development directions of digital twin technology integrated with big data, IoT sensing, mobile and edge computing, artificial intelligence, simulation, and large models. It will explore innovative applications of digital twin technology in the intelligent directions of civil aviation, rail transit, and urban transportation fields.

Focusing on the Trend of High-Quality Industrial Development to Stimulate the Potential of Digital Twin Technology Innovation and Application

The integration of industry, academia, and research is a key link in implementing an innovation-driven development strategy, which can promote the accelerated transformation of independent innovation results into real productive forces and rapidly enhance the ability for independent innovation. It focuses on the leading-edge technologies and key common technologies guided by industry, and concentrates on the capabilities of enterprises, universities, and research institutes up and down the industry chain, to collaboratively promote high-quality industrial development.

The Technology Committee aims to explore the innovative applications of digital twin technology in the fields of civil aviation, rail transit, and urban transportation, and to promote the high-quality development of related industries. In the field of civil aviation, the main research focuses on self-perception and full-domain collaborative intelligent decision-making of airport operation status based on multi-business object detection, tracking, state perception, cross-modal semantic understanding, and fusion technology in digital twin airports. In the field of rail transit, the research focuses on situational awareness and analysis, simulation and prediction, intelligent operation control and scheduling, and full-process management and optimization for rail transit digital twin intelligent applications, establishing a standard system, service platform, and typical applications for rail transit digital twins. In the field of urban transportation, the main research goal is to use digital twin technology to establish a digital model of the urban traffic system, achieving functions such as traffic flow monitoring, road condition prediction, and traffic signal optimization, to realize intelligent traffic management and scheduling, improve traffic efficiency and accuracy, and enhance emergency response capabilities and safety.

Deep Integration of Industry, Academia, and Research for Mutual Complementary Advantages to Jointly Promote High-Quality Industrial Development

As the leading member unit of the Technology Committee, Beijing Boneng Technology Co., Ltd. is a leader in the field of digital twin technology services. Established in 2005, Boneng Shares has developed the proprietary digital twin operating system BLinkOS with the concept of "infrastructure digitization and digital infrastructure foundationalization." It provides a complete range of industry digital twin application solutions, from data and platforms to professional digital management systems, and is based on architectures of big data, cloud computing, and cloud storage. Boneng Shares was the first to apply digital twin technology to the civil aviation sector, creating benchmark digital twin applications such as Beijing Daxing International Airport, Beijing Capital International Airport, and Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. Approved as a national specialized and innovative small giant enterprise in 2022, Boneng Shares has been committed to becoming a first-class metaverse infrastructure new builder.

The Four-Type Airport Research Institute of China Civil Aviation University was established by China Civil Aviation University to implement the science and technology development strategy of a strong civil aviation country and to practice the integration of science and technology services for the aviation transportation and manufacturing industries. It focuses on the strategic development needs and technological frontiers of future airports, aiming to solve the "bottleneck" issues of future airports and to deepen the development theme of a "safe, green, intelligent, and humanistic" future airport technology strategy. The Tangshan Research Institute of Beijing Jiaotong University has established the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for High-Speed Railway Network Management, dedicated to the research and development of network management and information security technologies, covering disciplines such as computer science, communication, and control transportation. The School of Transportation within the Construction Engineering Department of Dalian University of Technology has undertaken more than 20 National Natural Science Foundation projects and nearly a hundred other projects. Its research results have provided strong theoretical support for solving China's transportation issues, and it has received nearly 10 provincial and ministerial level and above science and teaching awards.

The Technology Committee, guided by industrial application needs, fully leverages the practical advantages of enterprises in technology development and application construction, as well as the theoretical research and exploration advantages of universities and research institutions. It promotes deep integration of industry, academia, and research for mutual complementary advantages, forming a joint force to promote high-quality industrial development.

Focusing on Active Application Transformation to Promote Rapid and High-Quality Development of Digital Twin Transportation Applications

In the future, the Technology Committee will focus on the field of digital twin transportation applications, centering on the construction goals of the Integration Innovation Technology Committee, to coordinate effectively, strengthen deep integration and innovation of industry, academia, and research, actively carry out the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, conduct key technology research and industrial application, and promote corporate innovation development. The aim is to quickly achieve results and benefits, to promote rapid and high-quality development of digital twin transportation applications, and to use digital twin technology to foster high-quality industrial development.