Since the beginning of this year, China's logistics operation has generally maintained a recovery to the good, social logistics demand recovery, the logistics industry boom index, the total turnover of civil aviation transportation, the bulk commodity index and a number of logistics indicators have shown an upward trend, releasing more vitality and vigor. The June China Express Development Index Report shows that in June this year, China's express development index was 366.3, up 26.6% year-on-year. Among them, the development of scale index, service quality index and other four level indicators are positive growth trend.

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From the point of view of the mode of transportation, road freight transport still occupies a dominant position in China's logistics and transportation industry, accounting for more than 70%. With the arrival of the information age, the Internet, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things and other new technologies in the field of logistics to open a wide range of applications, logistics industry transformation and development continue to deepen. As an important part of social and economic development, under the influence of intelligent network connection, driving automation, energy greening, asset servicing "new four", the profound change of the road freight industry chain will undoubtedly affect the future direction and speed of the entire logistics industry, and a brand new industry and mode is bound to provide strong support for the steady recovery of the logistics industry as well as the sustainable upward development, and provide strong support for the steady recovery of the logistics industry. A brand-new industry and mode will provide strong support for the steady recovery of the logistics industry and sustainable upward development, accelerating to a smarter, greener and more efficient intelligent logistics era. As we all know, in the entire road freight transport chain, by the heavy trucks borne by the trunk logistics transportation is the most important component of the transportation cost of trillions of yuan, accounting for more than 80%. From the main point of view, the main body of China's road freight market is still dominated by small and medium-sized freight transport enterprises and individual transport operators, individual transport operators decentralized operations, logistics enterprises subcontracting capacity is the basic pattern of road freight market. On the whole, the road freight industry is not enough degree of intensification, the mode of operation of a variety of ways and was a significant state of sloppy, transport market organization structure, such as fragmentation of the problem also leads to rapid development at the same time, the freight efficiency, cost, safety and other issues are becoming more and more obvious, a serious constraint on the healthy development of the industry. For the main practitioners, under such tremendous pressure, its demand for refined operation and management is increasing, how to find a significant increase in efficiency, reduce costs, improve safety "optimal solution" has become an urgent problem.

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Big data and artificial intelligence lead the development of the times, the emergence, maturity and landing of automatic driving technology for the intensive development of trunk logistics transportation provides the basic premise, and become an effective technical means to improve the degree of organization and transport efficiency of trunk logistics transportation. As the world's leading artificial intelligence truck service provider, TRUNK.TECH has been committed to the research and development and application of L4-level artificial intelligence truck technology for many years, and has taken the lead in establishing a cross-provincial artificial intelligence transportation system in the national transportation network through the artificial intelligence truck "falling a son and full of life" to promote the national transportation to intelligent, Greening high-quality transformation of national transportation.

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The core of the L4 AI truck is TRUNK.TECH 's full-stack self-research, extremely controllable L4 automatic driving system-AiTrucker. The powerful AI virtual driver can see farther, faster, and more comprehensively, and has better response speed and driving control ability, so that the AI truck has a powerful single-vehicle high-level self-driving function, and can autonomously and comfortably complete operations such as passing toll booths, on- and off-ramps, lane changing, overtaking, intelligent following, emergency obstacle avoidance, etc. even in extreme conditions such as rain, snow, fog, and night. In high-speed scenarios, the AI trucks can autonomously and calmly complete operations such as passing toll booths, getting on and off ramps, changing lanes to overtake, following vehicles intelligently, and avoiding obstacles in emergencies, etc., and still operate safely and stably even in extreme conditions such as rain, snow, fog, and darkness of the night.

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Highway Formation Autopilot

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Highway Formation Autopilot Off-ramp

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Automatic Driving In Tunnels

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Autonomous On-ramp

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Safe Autopilot For Rainy Days

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 High Speed Formation Steady State Queue

In terms of vehicle supply, AI trucks can improve road transportation safety, significantly improve fuel economy, effectively relieve driver fatigue and reduce labor costs by optimizing the number of drivers, thus reducing labor costs, which has obvious economic benefits for logistics enterprise customers and society. Meanwhile, in terms of operation mode, based on the powerful intelligent driving capacity, TRUNK.TECH technically connects the "intelligent driving" and "intelligent transportation" systems, realizing the full coverage of "vehicle - cargo - people". Trunk GO Intelligent Driving Network Freight Transportation System is able to place orders and realize real-time capacity allocation and intelligent scheduling according to the freight transportation needs of logistics enterprises, monitor the operation status and loading status of vehicles in real time, and greatly improve the utilization rate of vehicles and reduce the mileage of empty vehicles by optimizing the management decisions of running routes, loading, consolidation, and grouping of cargoes, so as to help the customers from the digitalization of the business system, centralization of the cargos management, and transparency of the transportation process to the realization of "vehicle-cargo-person". Management centralization, transport process transparency, task management integration and other dimensions to achieve a comprehensive upgrade. 2022, the main line of technology and intelligent logistics national team in the storage of intelligent transport to reach a strategic cooperation, and start the industry's first bulk intelligent logistics joint operation project. At present, the "intelligent driving system" of TRUNK.TECH  and the "intelligent logistics service system" of CPS Intelligent Transportation are in the stage of in-depth integration, through joint customization and operation of intelligent trucks, the two sides are creating a "one-stop service, stable and reliable, on-demand billing". Through joint customization and operation of intelligent trucks, the two parties are building a new-generation self-driving freight transportation platform that is "one-stop service, stable and reliable, on-demand billing, high quality and high efficiency". At present, the first batch of intelligent truck fleet cooperated by TRUNK.TECH and China Storage Intelligent Transportation is carrying out regularized cross-provincial intelligent transportation business between Shanxi and Shandong. In the future, the two sides will continue to build and operate a 5,000-unit intelligent truck fleet and operation platform within five years to provide logistics customers with more efficient and economical bulk logistics intelligent transportation services.

 

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Based on the L4 AI truck, the Trunk Freight high-speed trunk line self-driving freight solution launched by TRUNK.TECH is the first one in the industry. After years of breakthroughs, iterations and practical applications, the Trunk Freight solution has already been used in the logistics head enterprises such as China Reserve Intelligent Transportation, Shentong and Deppon to carry out high-speed trunk line logistics and transportation services, with the transportation routes covering the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the central and western regions. Trunk Freight has formed a set of mature and replicable, flexible to meet diversified needs, "plug and play" standard commercialization application system, which can help logistics customers to fundamentally solve the practical needs of cost reduction and efficiency increase and quickly complete the upgrade of digital intelligence. According to the data, Trunk Freight's intelligent driving time accounted for more than 90%, fuel saving rate reached 10%, and the accumulated transportation mileage exceeded 10 million kilometers. Trunk Freight has no boundaries. The commercialization mode of automatic driving in trunk logistics is becoming clearer, and under the general policy of promoting the application of automatic driving technology in the transportation industry in phases according to the complexity of the current road traffic environment, TRUNK.TECH is also giving the optimal solution: Trunk CAFC network-connected automatic driving freight transportation fleet technology, i.e., the formation of a number of artificially intelligent truck fleet formations, combining them to form a shapable digitalized transportation capacity pool, significantly improving the road capacity of highways. CAFC is a multi-vehicle formation intelligent driving mechanism created by TRUNK.TECH based on the convergence of vehicle-road coordination, L4 automatic driving, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies, which connects trucks together to form a formation through inter-vehicle communication and automatic driving technology, realizing automatic control and cooperative driving of trucks, which reduces air resistance, lowers fuel consumption and improves the utilization rate and transportation efficiency of the road. It can reduce air resistance, lower fuel consumption and improve road utilization and transportation efficiency. Measured data show that the comprehensive energy saving effect of CAFC reaches 18% and carbon reduction effect reaches 22%.1.1.png

At this stage, TRUNK.TECH has been leading the research on the related topics of networked self-driving freight transportation formation technology in China, and has successfully verified the feasibility and commercial value of self-driving formation under mixed traffic conditions on traditional highways. As one of the important participating units, TRUNK.TECH has been successfully approved by the Ministry of Transportation of the Ministry of Intelligent Transportation pilot projects, respectively, "Jinan Tianqiao to Zibo Zichuan Distribution Center of the pilot application of automated driving pilot trunk logistics" and "Tianjin Port to Majuqiao Logistics Park Highway Freight Automated Driving Pilot Applications Pilot". As the earliest artificial intelligence enterprise to carry out national research on self-driving cargo formation technology, TRUNK.TECH continues to be committed to exploring the integrated solution of mainline self-driving logistics at a deep level, and leading the customization of a number of management systems and standards and specifications, contributing to the practical application of self-driving and the industrialization model of an important innovative force, serving the strategy of a strong transportation country, and assisting in the landing of the national scientific and technological projects.

Intelligent logistics, smart card navigation. Under the leadership of the relevant national policies, the signal that the commercial application of L3 and higher-level automatic driving functions will receive more support has been released, which means that the commercialization of automatic driving is entering the "fast lane", and the boundaries of the application of AI trucks in the whole logistics scenario will be further broadened in the future.

As a leading artificial intelligence national high-tech enterprises, the main line of technology will still firmly to artificial intelligence trucks to create a safer, smarter, more efficient science and technology as the goal of transportation, through the artificial intelligence trucks of the string of points, and ultimately build up a national coverage of the network of artificial intelligence transportation system NATS, to promote China's logistics industry to the transformation of intelligent, green and high-quality development, to the unmanned transportation era continued! We will continue to move forward to the era of unmanned transportation!

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