Original title: Technology empowers, innovation drives, allowing more people to enjoy better public travel services During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the capital’s ground bus construction has taken a new step
Travel has speed, innovation has intensity, and service has temperature. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing Public Transport Group has always built around the "four centers" of the capital, improved the "four services" level, and practiced the responsibility and mission of state-owned enterprises with the spirit of daring to charge, gnawing hard bones, and daring to innovate. Based in the capital, it serves Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, allowing more people to enjoy better public travel services, and strives to build a modern urban passenger transportation comprehensive service provider.
Dare to charge – fight the COVID-19 epidemic, strictly control the full vehicle load rate, strengthen the disinfection measures of the vehicle station, and quickly go online to resume work on customized buses;
Dare to gnaw hard bones – relieve non-capital functions, cooperate with the government to complete the vacation of key bus stations, strive to achieve equalization of urban and rural ground bus services, and fully implement the "Return to Heaven Plan";
Dare to reform and innovate – Guo Gongzhuang, Kangjiagou and a large number of modern and three-dimensional station projects have made breakthroughs, stopping buses upstairs, "on-time projects", centralized scheduling makes buses faster, and buses with safety warning systems become "smart"…
In the past five years, there have been more than 1,200 conventional bus lines in Beijing, with a total length of more than 28,000 kilometers, more than 500 diversified lines, and 41 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei inter-provincial bus lines with a length of about 2,700 kilometers.
Leading diverse travel, the country’s first "customized bus"
Every morning, hundreds ** buses dressed in Chinese red "new clothes" drive to large residential areas in *******, sending commuters directly from their doorsteps to **fice buildings located in Guomao, Financial Street, Wangjing and other business districts. In the evening, they are picked up from their work. These "special status" buses book tickets online, one for each person, some new models are equipped with USB charging interfaces, on-board Wi-Fi, and during the epidemic, they get on the bus to measure the temperature and strictly control the full load rate, which has won the unanimous praise ** passengers. After the ****** Festival holiday in 2020, *******’s customized buses became the Internet celebrity transportation tool guarding the "road to resumption ** work".
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing’s diverse public transportation "family members" continued to increase. According to the relevant person in charge of Beijing Public Transport Group, as early as 2013, the group company explored new ways of operation and organization, and launched "customized public transportation" for the first time in the country. Since its operation, it has formed a collection of business shuttles, express direct lines, holiday lines, leisure tourism lines, medical lines, joint-ride customized public transportation, tourist buses, high-speed rail lines and other products. It has a service innovation brand of 535 lines, covering the city’s main large residential areas, workplaces and hubs.
On February 11, 2020, in order to serve the capital enterprises and institutions to resume work and production, the customized bus team received a seemingly impossible task – 17 days to complete the launch of the "Beijing Customized Bus Upgrade Edition" WeChat Mini Program, the city-wide collection of resumed lines, and the opening of all existing + newly opened customized bus lines. "If it is impossible to complete, it must be completed!" The Customized Bus Leading Group issued a "military order", and the team members started the "continuous rotation" working mode.
The upgraded products were launched as scheduled. From the first day of operation of 164 customized bus lines, serving 1,600 passengers, it has developed to an average of more than 6,000 daily services. At present, a total of 234 lines and 270 trips have been opened by customized buses, covering key business districts and more than 500 residential communities in various regions of Beijing, and the cumulative service has exceeded 1 million passengers. The "Beijing Customized Bus Upgrade Edition" Mini Program has registered 264,000 users.
There are more and more groups of customized bus guardians. On September 1, 2020, the general learning service released a line collection to directly address the pain points of parents sending students to school. At present, 19 classes of 12 lines have been opened, covering Beijing No. 8 Middle School, Middle School, High School, Railway No. 2 Middle School, 57 Middle School, 171 Middle School, etc., and 13 general school classes are planned to be launched. In order to ensure the safety of students’ general learning travel, the upgraded Mini Program of Beijing Customized Public Transport has added user-friendly functions such as "one person buys multiple tickets", "itinerary sharing" and "SMS reminder". After the general learning service was released, it brought nearly 30,000 registered users, established 35 general learning service communities, and exclusively provided general learning service consultation and demand collection work.
In addition, the shared-ride business upgrade service was officially launched in the early morning of September 1, 2020. A total of 20 GL8s were put into operation at Beijing West Railway Station and Beijing South Railway Station, and more than 4,000 passengers have been transported so far. The innovative business cruise minibus will also be launched soon, and will be piloted in the Wangjing area where jobs and residences are concentrated.
"On-time engineering" centralized dispatch makes public transportation faster
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing’s public transportation needs speed from technology and management. More and more transportation hubs such as Sihui, Songjiazhuang, and Tiantongyuan North use technological means such as on-board positioning, real-time communication, and station video surveillance to unify and flexibly dispatch, making public transportation faster.
At 7:15 in the morning, in-app, Tiantongyuan North Hub, a special No. 137 bus temporarily changed its "road number" and drove into the platform of No. 537. This microcirculation line bus did not "go the wrong way", it specially came to reinforce the relatively large traffic counting No. 537 during the peak period. The bus group uses large data analytics on the passenger flow characteristics of the line to coordinate the use of regional transportation resources across the line in the preparation of driving plans.
Who issued the cross-line support order? In the command center located on the upper floor of the North Hub of Tiantongyuan, there is another sign hanging in this command hall with dozens of stations – Huitian Regional Centralized Dispatch Center. "The dispatching orders for more than 50 bus lines in Huitian area are all sent from here." Zhou Shengli, the dispatching team leader, introduced that with the official opening of the hub, the bus lines in Huitian area have been centralized, and the various lines and teams involved in the area are no longer fighting each other.
"The lines help each other and dispatch uniformly to improve the punctuality of regional public transportation as a whole." Li Jinpeng, deputy manager of the dispatching command center of the Beijing Public Transport Group, introduced that in the past two years, Beijing has built about 100 demonstration lines every year, and passengers can basically wait for the bus to arrive on time at a fixed time.
In different months of the year, and even at different times of the day, the time it takes for a bus to run is different. How can we make the bus run more on time? Taking No. 471 in Wangjing area as an example, the operation department has set the driving time of different sections by testing the traffic capacity at different times, including the congestion time, so as to make the driving plan more suitable for the actual road conditions as much as possible. For example, the shortest peak period is 30 minutes, and the longest peak period is 41 minutes. There are more than ten such one-way time plans. This bus line currently achieves 100% punctuality, and the arrival rate is more than 90% on time.
"Huitian" area "If there is a road, there will be a bus"
The faster public transportation is also reflected in the optimization of the public transportation network. Microcirculation public transportation makes regional travel more convenient.
At 7:30 in the morning, Mr. Yu, who lives in Jiayuan, Huilongguan North Store, walked more than 200 meters to reach the nearest bus stop in the community. Just after arriving at the station for a while, a bus No. 344 entered the station, and the cars were all commuters entering the city. Bus No. 344 is called the "express line" for entering the city in the "Huitian" area. It comes out of Huilongguan and goes to the Beijing-Tibet Expressway. It takes a special bus lane all the way to Deshengmen. There are few stops and fast cars, and it is very popular. Mr. Yu recalled that in the past, No. 344 did not go into Huilongguan Community. On June 26, 2020, after route optimization, the 344 express route number was adjusted to No. 344, and about 10 stops were added. The line was extended to the door of the residents.
In the "Huitian" area, the operation department went to the platform and went into the community. According to the opinions of citizens and passenger flow surveys, the layout of the regional network was optimized. Conventional lines such as No. 133 and No. 80 were successively opened to increase network coverage. The stations of No. 102 and No. 441 were adjusted to facilitate passengers’ transfer. Seven night connection lines were opened to provide services for rail transit passengers to travel at night. These measures have greatly improved the problem of inconvenience for residents in surrounding communities. "Where there is a road, there is a bus". This service goal is basically achieved in the "Huitian" area.
Looking back at the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the Public Transport Group accelerated the construction of a new three-level network system of "dry, general and micro" in accordance with the "Beijing Ground Public Transport Network Master Plan (Draft) ". The length of the conventional line increased by 46%, the length of the conventional line network increased by 63%, and the mileage of the bus lane reached nearly 1,000 kilometers. At the same time, 1106 lines were optimized, the length of repeated lines was reduced by 2548.6 kilometers, and the problem of 596.9 kilometers of roads and no cars was solved, which facilitated the travel of residents in 1963 communities.
IT deeply empowers buses to be’smarter ‘
In addition to the enhanced network coverage, the buses running on Beijing’s roads are also becoming more and more "smart". As of now, more than 3,900 buses have been equipped with an active safety warning system. Yang Bin, manager of the service department of Beijing Public Transport Group, introduced that this system has become a "standard" for new car purchases. Functionally, it has six auxiliary driving functions: pedestrian collision warning, high-speed vehicle collision warning, low-speed vehicle collision warning, virtual bumper warning, lane departure warning, and safe distance warning. After monitoring, it was found that the probability of accidents on buses equipped with this system was significantly reduced, and drivers’ driving habits were also improved.
In order to better regulate driving and prompt drivers for speed limits, the bus group has installed an intelligent voice prompt system on key lines, which is equivalent to a "navigation" specially for bus drivers. The intelligent "navigation" prompt information is very comprehensive, such as water-prone sections, accident-prone sections, and high-limit sections will be broadcast in time. When entering and leaving the main road and passing through intersections and ramps, different speed limits will be dynamically prompted.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the city’s public transportation informatization construction continued to improve. For citizens, the biggest change is that they don’t have to look for bus cards everywhere when they get on the bus. After the implementation of payment functions such as swiping codes on mobile phones, swiping UnionPay cards, and one-yard rides with rail transit, passengers can pay more conveniently.
In the past, citizens could only wait on the platform. Now, without going out, you can check where the next bus is, how long it will take to arrive, and the congestion of the carriages to realize travel planning. As of now, the total number of users of Beijing Bus APP download has reached 6.7192 million, and the cumulative transaction volume of swiping code is 99.2326 million.
In key areas and key lines of the capital, a total of 1,176 electronic stop signs have been built, and the screen can "predict" the arrival time information, realizing the electronic and intelligent transit station.
Unicom Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, average daily 400,000 people travel across provinces by bus
In the context of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Beijing public transportation is not only the flow of passengers in the city, but also about 400,000 people travel across provinces by bus every day.
Mr. Wang, who lives in the fifth phase of Shangshang City in Yanjiao, takes the No. 814 bus from Guomao after get off work in the evening, and can reach the gate of the community in about an hour. Due to the distance of Guomao about 30 kilometers, the Yanjiao Development Zone of Sanhe, Hebei Province, which is connected to the east of Beijing, has become the residence of many commuters. On October 26, 2020, the inter-provincial bus No. 814 and No. 818 delayed the last bus by one hour each and ended their operation at 10 pm. Commuters who leave early and return late in large residential areas along the line are no longer worried about missing the last bus.
So far, Beijing Public Transport Group has launched 41 inter-provincial bus lines in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, with a line length of about 2,700 kilometers. The municipal transportation card has been fully interconnected among the bus lines in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
In the three regions, the red and gray logos of Beijing Public Transport Group are appearing more and more.
In Xiongan New Area, Beijing Public Transport Group integrated Baiyangdian water transportation resources, acquired existing ships in Baiyangdian, obtained water transportation licenses, and exclusively operated Baiyangdian "water buses" to achieve cross-domain operation of water and land. By participating in the construction and operation of water and land transportation in Xiongan New Area, it strives to create a smart transportation demonstration area integrating green waters, characteristic tourism, and ecological industries.
Trams have become a new business card for urban travel. After the opening of the western suburbs of the tram line at the end of 2017 and the opening of the T1 line of Yizhuang tram at the end of 2020, the trams to be operated in Chongli Prince City Ice and Snow Town in the future will also be built by Beijing Public Transport Group and Zhonghe Group. During the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing 2022, it will show the world the new era of Beijing public transportation style.
Fulfill the responsibilities of state-owned enterprises and polish the "Beijing Service" brand
"After waiting for so many years, I finally got the bus!" At 8:00 am on August 26, 2019, the first bus drove into Xiyuan Village, Da’anshan Township, Fangshan District. Since then, this small mountain village far from the urban area has bid farewell to the history of not being able to get public transportation. Due to the steep mountain roads along the way, the bus group specially selected a 6-meter micro-bus. After the bus line named F64 was opened, the villagers took the bus from Xiyuan Village and reached Fangshan City in about 2 hours.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing Public Transport Group’s "urban excellent suburbs" strategy continued to deepen. By absorbing and merging Xianglong Bus, receiving and operating Fangshan Regional Bus and Yizhuang Regional Bus, the integration process of urban and rural ground bus operations was accelerated. A new development pattern of "one map", "one network", "one standard" and "one system" of ground buses in the city was gradually formed.
In the past five years, we have cooperated with the relaxation of non-capital functions, accelerated the evacuation of the central axis road and the second ring road stations, and cooperated with government departments to complete the evacuation of the Summer Palace Donggongmen and Xiangshan project stations. 4.30 million square meters, which is the land demand for permanent bus stations in Beijing in 2017, equivalent to 21 "bird’s nests". In order to make buses no longer "wandering" on the streets, the bus group changed its thinking, and the construction of stations has undergone three major transformations from plane to three-dimensional, from city to city, and from traditional to modern. A large number of major projects such as Ma Guanying, Guo Gongzhuang, Kangjiagou, Ertong Factory, and Dongxiaoying have made breakthroughs, among which Ma Guanying and Ertong Factory three-dimensional stations have been completed.
Technical equipment has been continuously upgraded, more than 11,000 old and scrapped vehicles have been eliminated, and the proportion of new energy and clean energy buses has increased to more than 80%. By the end of 2020, the blue sky defense goal of "all buses operating in the sub-center of the second ring road and the line as a whole use new energy vehicles" will be achieved.
Help win the battle of poverty reduction, carry out counterpart assistance with Laishui County, Baoding City, build Beijing Public Transport Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park, and successfully incorporate the new energy automobile parts production base project into the key projects of Hebei Province. Completed the first phase of the production base of 509 mu of land acquisition and started construction, completed the cooperation and investment of 32 companies, and "settled" the BAIC Ouhui bus production plant.
Go all out to fight the epidemic, by strictly controlling the full load rate of vehicles, timely take local buses, large station express trains, mass nucleic acid testing, all operating vehicles, bus stations daily regular disinfection and other forms, to achieve normal operation during the epidemic, drivers and passengers, passengers "zero infection". Capital bus people brave support Hubei medical team after arrival in Beijing to pick up the transfer, resident pick-up and recuperation services, complete the epidemic designated hospitals such as Xiaotangshan, Ditan and other epidemic healthcare workers commuting recuperation and Xinfadi market centralized isolation personnel transfer and other special service guarantee tasks.
Travel has speed, innovation has intensity, and service has temperature. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the capital’s functions and service levels have been comprehensively improved, and Beijing Public Transport has made important contributions, polishing the "Beijing Service" brand.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a key period for Beijing to implement the strategic positioning of the capital city and build a world-class harmonious and livable capital. It is also the first five years for Beijing Public Transport to build a modern enterprise based on the new starting point of its century-old development history. Beijing Public Transport Group will start a new journey as a comprehensive service provider for modern urban passenger transportation.