Recently, the 2023 China Communications and Transportation Association (CCTA) Science and Technology Progress Awards Ceremony and China Transportation New Technology and New Achievements Promotion Conference, themed on “Spotlighting Novel Scientific Achievements, Empowering Transportation Excellence, and Pioneering Industry Advancements,” unfolded seamlessly. During the ceremony and the conference, accolades were bestowed upon the qualified projects, and notably, among them, the accomplishment of the “Geoscience Big Data and Intelligent Application” team, spearheaded by Professor Ou Ou and Associate Professor Leng Xiaopeng from CDUT, seized the second prize.
Picture 1 The Awarding Ceremony
The winning endeavor amalgamates Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing, along with all-encompassing high-performance sensing technologies such as traffic millimeter-wave radar, artificial intelligence (AI), Building Information Modeling (BIM), and digital twins. It undertakes intelligent monitoring and analysis of diverse safety risk incidents along expressways throughout the entire lifecycle. Presently, this technology has been deployed across multiple intelligent expressways within Sichuan province, yielding commendable societal dividends.
Picture 2 The Honor Certificate
The “Geoscience Big Data and Intelligent Application” team at CDUT has garnered a cornucopia of research achievements in disaster monitoring and early warning, interdisciplinary amalgamation of AI and geoscience, three-dimensional geological modeling technology, geoscience big data, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and digital twins in geoscience application domains. These contributions furnish technological impetus to critical sectors such as land and resources, disaster prevention and mitigation, water resources and hydropower, energy conservation and emission reduction, and ecological conservation. In recent years, the team’s performance has been stellar, securing two second prizes (2019, 2020) of Technology Progress Awards granted by the Chinese Society for Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (CSGPC), the first prize of Sichuan Province Computer Science and Technology Awards (2021), the Most Promising Product for Digital Sichuan Science and Technology Achievements (2020), and the first prize of the China Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress Awards (2022), among a slew of other accolades. This latest recognition by the transportation industry underscores industry experts’ resounding endorsement of the team’s extensive contributions and achievements in the realm of integrated academia-industry endeavors.
