Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is one of the largest cities in Africa with a resident population of about 5 million. Traffic congestion is a major problem in the city. In the local area, taking the bus is the most important way for citizens to travel, but there is no unmanned ticketing equipment on the bus, and some stations do not have stop signs. It often takes an hour to arrive by car for a distance of 8 kilometers. During peak traffic hours, it is common to stand in a queue of dozens of meters at the bus station and wait for half an hour. The people and the city government of Addis Ababa have an extremely urgent need for the intelligent upgrade of local transportation.

In mid-March 2022, Addis Ababa Mayor Adanek Abebe posted 6 messages on social media in a row, announcing that he signed a contract with Hisense and Shandong Expressway Consortium from China to build a joint venture in the next two years. A convenient and efficient public transportation intelligent management system.

In order to reach this cooperation between China and Egypt, Chen Xiaowen, an engineer from Hisense, has been preparing for nearly 3 months in Ethiopia. Chen Xiaowen said: "In Ethiopia, I was thinking of a plan while seeing the actual traffic situation, and felt that I had a great responsibility." "Actually, it is not difficult to solve these problems, but how to adapt to local conditions."

Due to the strong national and regional characteristics of intelligent transportation, the problems faced by different countries and even different cities are different. In order to thoroughly understand the local traffic conditions, Chen Xiaowen led the team to explore the actual situation of buses, stations, and depots on the streets many times during work intervals, and repeatedly browsed the obtained audio and video materials, and finally came up with a set of wisdom suitable for Ethiopia's national conditions. bus implementation.

It is understood that the construction period of the project is 21 months. After the project is completed, local citizens will be able to know the arrival information of vehicles in a timely manner through mobile phones and electronic stop signs, which will greatly reduce the waiting time of citizens and improve the operation efficiency of the whole society. At the same time, the driver's behavior can also be monitored throughout the entire process. In case of fatigue driving, the vehicle will automatically alarm in real time, and the local bus management will also realize the transformation from experience management to information-based scientific management.

Ethiopia is an important country along the Belt and Road, as well as a model country for China-Africa production capacity cooperation. Guan Jizhen, vice chairman of the China Intelligent Transportation Association, said that the Chinese company won the bid for the Ethiopian Intelligent Transportation System Improvement Project, which will not only help Ethiopia to create a new model for the Belt and Road Initiative, but also is of great significance to China's intelligent transportation industry. Keywords: One Belt One Road, One Belt One Road News, One Belt One Road Project

On the one hand, this project is a World Bank loan project and operates under international rules. Winning the bid is a reflection of the company’s comprehensive strength, indicating that Chinese companies have the ability to compete with international companies in the overseas intelligent transportation market; on the other hand , which means that China's technical standards have begun to systematically go to overseas markets, which is an important beginning.Editor/XuNing