After Daxing International Airport, Beijing South Railway Station will also be open to "self-driving taxis".

Recently, Beijing High-Level Automated Driving Office issued a notice about the test road and test area for automated driving vehicles in the Policy Pioneer Zone, clarifying the scope of the automated driving test in the Beijing Jingkai District to and from Beijing South Railway Station. This also means that Beijing's first automatic driving test at a high-speed railway station is officially open.

Beijing Economic Development Zone to and from the Beijing South Station automatic driving test road and the surrounding automatic driving test area Beijing South Station is a set of railways, subways, urban railways, buses, rentals and other five modes of transport in one of the modern large-scale integrated transport hub, serving Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, access to Shanghai, Ningxia and Hangzhou, connecting the Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian, with an average daily traffic of nearly 300,000 people, the station has a smart parking and other functions, the landing conditions for automated driving is good.

Municipal Self-driving Office, the demonstration area and the Municipal Traffic Management Bureau, the Municipal Urban Management Commission, the first group and other relevant management units based on the location of the traffic situation and the public travel needs of the comprehensive consideration, and ultimately establish a two-way driving distance of 32 kilometres, 58.6 kilometres of the two self-driving test road, respectively, through the Bodai Road - South Fourth Ring - Majiapu West Road, South Fifth Ring - Beijing-Kaifeng Expressway - South Third Ring and the Third Ring Auxiliary Road, to Kaiyang Road At the same time, a 2.2 square kilometre test support area has been designated around the Beijing South Railway Station, and special parking spaces for self-driving are arranged in the three-dimensional parking building of the Beijing South Railway Station.

When will passengers be able to call "self-driving taxis" to and from Beijing South Railway Station?

City Self-driving Office introduced, the next step will be coordinated with relevant enterprises, to promote the pilot zone highway test qualification of self-driving vehicles on the road test, is expected to provide passengers with a new choice of connection within the year. At that time, travellers can make reservations through the enterprise travel service App, get on and off at any self-driving feeder site in Beijing Jingkai District, and travel to and from Beijing South Railway Station according to the established feeder routes, enjoying the convenience and efficiency that self-driving brings to daily life.

Previously, Daxing Airport has opened a regular self-driving feeder, accessing 40 vehicles from four companies, including Radish Capacity, Pony Smart, Wenyuan Zhixing, and AnTou Zhixing, which have accumulated a total test mileage of more than 220,000 kilometres and a stable operating status. In terms of route planning, policy opening and vehicle supervision, the relevant government departments have gradually formed a replicable synergistic management model, laying a foundation for the subsequent participation of enterprises in the construction of the scene.

The reporter was informed that Beijing South Station, Fengtai Station, Chaoyang Station, Qinghe Station, the city's sub-centre station and other five key railway hubs, passenger stations and Daxing International Airport, the Capital International Airport "five stations and two fields" to connect, the demonstration area 3.0 stage of the expansion of the construction of the key scenarios to build.

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