Ministry of Transport: further optimize and improve the charging infrastructure network along the highway
CTOnews.com July 31 news, CTOnews.com learned from CCTV News that today's Ministry of Transport held a press conference to introduce the latest progress and future planning of highway construction. Guo Sheng, deputy director of the Highway Bureau, said that highway facilities are speeding up the filling of short boards and strengthening chains, but also showing a new trend of digital transformation and integration of transportation and travel.
Guo Sheng introduced that in order to meet the development requirements of the new era, the Ministry of Transport actively promoted the digital transformation of the whole process of highway construction, maintenance and operation. At present, the Ministry of Transport is organizing the drafting of policy documents on highway digitalization and intelligent highway construction, and promoting the digital special actions and relevant pilot work in highway design and construction, emergency maintenance, travel service, market governance, standards and specifications.
Guo Sheng also revealed that the Ministry of Transport has strengthened its guidance on smart highway construction projects, deepened technical scheme demonstration, accelerated the construction of smart highways such as Jiqing Middle Line Expressway and Hubei section of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway, and strived to form a number of technical achievements with clear scenes and obvious benefits.
In addition, Guo Sheng also stressed that speeding up the integrated development of transportation and tourism is an important means to promote the structural reform on the supply side of transportation and tourism services, and an effective way to stimulate tourism consumption potential and release market vitality. In recent years, the Ministry of Transport has also vigorously promoted the construction of tourist roads and, together with relevant state departments, jointly studied and promoted the high-quality development of tourist roads.
Guo Sheng also said that in the next step, the Ministry of Transport will focus on the charging facilities in the expressway service area, further optimize and improve the charging infrastructure network along the highway in accordance with the principle of "moderate advance", and strive to form a charging infrastructure network with "fixed facilities as the main body, mobile facilities as supplements, full coverage of important nodes, good operation and maintenance services, and guaranteed mass travel" to effectively meet the charging needs of electric vehicles and serve the public for convenient travel. Assist the high-quality development of electric vehicle industry.
