China Identifies 20 Cities to Test “Vehicle-Road-Cloud” Integration System on ICVs

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued on July 3, 2024 the Circular on Releasing the List of Cities to Test the “Vehicle-Road-Cloud” Integration System on Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICVs) (the “Circular”), which will come into effect on July 1, 2024, selecting 20 cities (consortia) for the program.

The MIIT specifies that the pilot cities should follow the guidance of five government departments and combine it with relevant expert opinions to further optimize and improve their “vehicle-road-cloud” construction plans, and define the interrelationships between the various components of “vehicle, road, cloud, network, map, and safety”; adopt a unified architecture and technical standards to achieve interconnectivity between cloud control infrastructure platform, urban traffic safety comprehensive service management platform, traffic information management public service platform, urban information model platform, and other platforms, break down data islands between different domains and regions, realize interoperability and sharing of basic common data, as well as cross-domain sharing of infrastructure, services, and platforms. The pilot scheme is expected to build low-latency and high-reliability connected cloud control infrastructure, boost the large-scale application of multi-scenario autonomous driving, explore and form a new business model of “vehicle-road-cloud” integration investment, construction and operations, and establish a unified system of standards, testing and evaluation.