Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation

随着无处不在的电信基础设施的部署，世界联系日益紧密，信息通信技术（ICT）正在快速发展，以改善人类的福祉。随着全球城市化趋势的发展，利用信息通信技术使城市更智能、更可持续变得至关重要，特别是在交通部门，因为交通部门的碳足迹很大，对公民的日常生活有很大影响。在这个项目中，我们与TELUS合作开发技术创新，将利用人工智能、数字媒体和智能城市通信的进步，重点关注智能交通的解决方案。特别是，利用人工智能的进步，我们将开发协同自动驾驶的创新解决方案，检测道路状况、恶化和危险，检测可用的街道停车位，以及检测和解释交通和停车标志，旨在提高自动驾驶车辆决策的准确性，改善人类驾驶和自动驾驶车辆的驾驶条件，减少交通和减少污染。这些解决方案将建立在新兴的先进网络计算基础设施之上，该基础设施基于多层边缘和云计算的智能协作。我们还将开发新颖的解决方案，使这样一个智能基础设施高效、安全和适应性强。TELUS承诺提供大量的财政和人力资源，以及战略指导，使这个项目不仅在知识创造方面取得成功，而且在开拓新的商业机会方面取得成功。该项目成果的商业化将显著促进加拿大经济，特别是在交通和信息通信技术领域，这两个领域加起来占加拿大GDP的近10%。这些行业的持续增长需要大量受过最新人工智能技术培训的训练有素的人员（HQP），这是该项目的另一个重要成果。

As the world becomes increasingly connected through the ubiquitous deployment of telecommunication infrastructure, information and communication technologies (ICT) are advancing at a quick pace to improve the well-being of humankind. With the global trend of urbanization, it becomes critical to leverage ICT to make cities smarter and more sustainable, especially in the transportation sectors due to their large carbon footprints and big impacts on citizens' everyday life. In this project, we team up with TELUS to develop technological innovations that will exploit advances in artificial intelligence, digital media and communications for smart cities, focusing on solutions for intelligent transportation. In particular, leveraging advances in artificial intelligence (AI), we shall develop innovative solutions for collaborative autonomous driving, detection of road conditions, deteriorations and hazards, detection of available street parking, and detection and interpretation of traffic and parking signs, aiming at increased accuracy in decision making of autonomous vehicles and improved driving conditions for human-driven and autonomous vehicles, traffic reduction and decreased pollution. These solutions will be built upon an emerging advanced network computing infrastructure based on intelligent collaboration of multiple levels of edge and cloud computing. We shall also develop novel solutions that make such an intelligent infrastructure efficient, secure and adaptable. TELUS is committed to providing substantial financial and human resources, as well as strategic guidance, to make this project a success not only in knowledge generation but in opening new business opportunities. The commercialization of the outcomes of this project will significantly boost the Canadian economy, particularly in the transportation and ICT sectors, which together account for close to 10% of the Canadian GDP. The continued growth of these sectors requires a substantial injection of Highly Trained Personnel (HQP) that is trained in the latest AI techniques, which is another important outcome of this project.