Road traffic and how to fix it - the headache of the modern city
- will be a major discussion point at the 14th World Congress on
the Intelligent Transport System (ITS), which kicked off in Beijing
yesterday.
The five-day conference, sponsored by the Ministry of Science
and Technology and Beijing municipal government, has attracted more
than 2,000 foreign experts from more than 50 countries.
More than 140 enterprises from home and abroad have established
exhibition booths to demonstrate their development achievements and
roughly 200 technological forums will be held during the
conference.
China started its ITS research from the 1970s and built its
highway monitoring system and urban traffic management system in
the 1990s.
Thanks to hi-tech measures such as GPS and Electronic Data
Interchange technologies, 10 cities including Beijing, Shanghai and
Shenzhen have launched comprehensive traffic management systems and
become ITS model cities.
"The host city of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing will grasp the
opportunity to use world expertise to upgrade its traffic
management potential to help solve its traffic congestion problem,"
Beijing Mayor Wang Qishan, said.
(China Daily October 10, 2007)
