Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation

随着世界通过电信基础设施的普遍部署而变得越来越相互联系，信息和通信技术（信通技术）正在迅速发展，以改善人类的福祉。随着全球城市化的趋势，利用信通技术使城市更加智能和可持续变得至关重要，特别是在交通部门，因为它们的碳足迹很大，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，利用人工智能，数字媒体和智能城市通信的进步，专注于智能交通解决方案。特别是，利用人工智能（AI）的进步，我们将开发创新的解决方案，用于协作自动驾驶，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，并改善人类驾驶和自动驾驶车辆的驾驶条件，减少交通和污染。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次边缘和云计算的智能协作。我们还将开发新的解决方案，使这种智能基础设施高效，安全和适应性强。 TELUS致力于提供大量的财务和人力资源，以及战略指导，使该项目不仅在知识生成方面取得成功，而且在开辟新的商业机会方面取得成功。 该项目成果的商业化将大大促进加拿大经济，特别是在交通和信息通信技术部门，这两个部门合计占加拿大GDP的近10%。 这些行业的持续增长需要大量注入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.