Towards the Transportation Internet: Concepts, Architectures and Requirements

The Internet has become a general network design paradigm. The Energy Internet is a successful case applied in the energy field. Disruptive transportation changes have been driven by the development of technologies such as cloud computing, 5G, AI, autonomous driving, and mobility services. We propose the Transportation Internet by introducing the paradigm into the transportation field. The Transportation Internet brings dynamics, efficiency, intelligence, scalability, and openness to transportation. It also provides a valuable reference system for the future transportation automation. By comparing with the internet, this paper draws out concepts, proposes architectures and gives requirements of the Transportation Internet. A small-scale verification has been carried out.