This book offers the first in-depth exploration of digital twin technology applied to China's transportation sector, highlighting how it drives intelligent transportation, smart infrastructure, and the development of a national 'transportation powerhouse.' It explores the conceptual foundations of digital twins, their integration into transportation systems, and their role in enhancing operational efficiency, safety, and planning.
Through case studies such as Guiyang's pilot system, the Sichuan-Tibet Railway's 3D platform, and selected international examples like Rolls-Royce's jet engine upgrades, the book provides evidence-based insights into improving operational efficiency, safety management, resource optimization, and infrastructure modernization. Its chapters address both the current state of deployment in China and emerging trends, including simulation-based decision-making, virtual–physical integration, and multi-dimensional transportation management.
Endorsed by leading scholars Professor Xiaolin Xu (Former Dean of the School of Public Administration at Huazhong University of Science and Technology), and Professor Jun Ni (Professor at the University of Michigan and President of the School of Future Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University), the book combines technical analysis with practical relevance. It serves as both a practical reference and a graduate-level textbook, and is suitable for courses in intelligent transportation systems, digital twin applications and smart city Infrastructure.
Contents:
- Content Summary
- Introduction to the Authors
- Foreword I
- Foreword II
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Emerging Technology to Boost the Development of the Era to a Higher and Deeper Space
- Digital Twin Has Become a Key Driving Force for China's Transportation Development
- China's Transportation Construction Enters the Digital Twin Era
- Digital Twin Helps Intelligent Transportation Simulation Upgrade
- Digital Twin Leads to New Breakthroughs in Intelligent Transportation
- The Application Status of Digital Twin Technology in Western Transportation
- Digital Transportation Management in Developed Countries
- Comparison of Domestic and International Intelligent Transportation in the Digital Twin Era
- Impact of Digital Twin on Global Transportation Development
- Digital Twin Improves the Intelligent Development of Transportation Infrastructure
- Look into the Intelligent Transportation Texture and Clarify the Context of Intelligent Transportation
- New Transportation Equipment Designed in Virtual Space and Applied in the Real World
- Empower the Future of the City and Give Higher Wisdom to Transportation
- Digital Twin 'Intelligently' Contributes to Sky Science and Technology
- Digital Twin 'Intelligently” Empowers the Stronger Earth
- Digital Twin Creates a Master's Work
- Digital Twin Connects the Real World and Digital Space
- 'Mirror World' of Digital Twin Reproducing Transportation Equipment
- '5G + AI' New Transportation Mode
- Explore the Digital Space and Construct a Visual Intelligent Transportation Management System
- Digital Twin: Creating A New Pattern of Transportation Infrastructure
- Digital Twin Activating China's Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Transportation Network
- Postscript
- References
- Index
Readership: For advanced undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Civil Engineering (specializing in Transportation Engineering or Intelligent Transportation) or Computer Engineering (specializing in Digital Engineering or IoT); For researchers and industry professionals working on digital twin technology or intelligent transportation systems; For transportation policymakers and urban planners looking to implement digital transportation.
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