Recently, Fengxin Zhitong (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Datong, together with its project partners, received the First Prize of the 2025 Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award – Transportation Science and Technology Award for its project titled “Key Digital and Intelligent Technologies and Applications for Multi-Dimensional Safety Risk Identification and Emergency Prevention and Control on Operating Expressways.” The award recognizes the project's outstanding technological innovation and significant industry application value.

The Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award – Transportation Science and Technology Award is one of the most prestigious and influential scientific and technological awards in China's transportation sector. It honors organizations and projects that have achieved major breakthroughs and made outstanding contributions in technological innovation, engineering advancement, and the commercialization of scientific achievements. Winning the First Prize not only demonstrates the industry's high recognition of Fengxin Zhitong's technological capabilities in intelligent transportation and expressway safety management, but also highlights Datong's commitment to innovation-driven development, industrial upgrading, and the digital transformation of transportation infrastructure.

Addressing Industry Challenges Through Intelligent Highway Safety Upgrades

As China's expressway network continues to expand and traffic volumes steadily increase, operating highways are facing increasingly diverse safety risks and more complex sources of potential hazards. Traditional safety management approaches are showing clear limitations in precise risk identification, real-time monitoring, and coordinated emergency response, creating an urgent need for smarter, more refined, and digitally enabled infrastructure safety management solutions.

Aligned with China's strategy of building a strong transportation nation and responding to the growing demand for digital transformation of transportation infrastructure, Fengxin Zhitong partnered with the research team led by Professor Fu Xinsha of South China University of Technology to conduct targeted research and development focused on operational highway safety.

The project concentrates on three core areas:

· Multi-dimensional safety risk identification

· Intelligent warning and risk assessment

· Coordinated emergency prevention and control

By integrating big data, artificial intelligence, and other digital technologies into highway operation and maintenance scenarios, the project supports the comprehensive upgrading of highway safety management systems and accelerates the transition from conventional management approaches to intelligent and precision-based operations.

Breakthrough Technologies Establish a Full-Cycle Digital Risk Prevention System

The award-winning project successfully addresses critical industry challenges, including difficulties in risk identification, delayed warning mechanisms, and inefficient emergency coordination on operating highways.

By integrating the complete workflow of:Monitoring → Assessment → Analysis → Warning → Control → Evaluation → Feedbackthe project has established a comprehensive digital and intelligent emergency management framework featuring multi-terminal coordination and full-network coverage.

According to expert evaluation, the overall technology has reached an internationally advanced level, with several core technologies achieving international leading status.

Comprehensive Risk Monitoring  The project innovatively developed an integrated “Space–Air–Ground” multi-source data fusion monitoring system, combining cognitive inference technologies with AI-powered video analytics to achieve highly accurate detection of highway disaster events.This breakthrough overcomes the limitations of conventional monitoring methods, significantly improving both monitoring coverage and identification accuracy while enabling comprehensive detection of diverse highway safety risks.

Advanced Risk Assessment and Identification

  The project pioneered a four-dimensional dynamic risk assessment methodology that simultaneously considers:

· Drivers

· Vehicles

· Road conditions

· Surrounding landscapes

  This innovative approach overcomes the limitations of traditional static safety evaluations by integrating inherent roadway safety assessment with dynamic operational risk analysis, creating a more realistic and comprehensive risk evaluation framework.

Proactive Warning and Prevention

  The research team successfully developed a Cloud–Edge–Terminal collaborative traffic risk warning and active prevention system, supported by a multidimensional dynamic warning strategy knowledge base.

  Through AI-driven multimodal intelligent coordination and control technologies, the system enables highway safety management to shift fundamentally from reactive emergency response toward proactive prediction and prevention.

Digital Emergency Response

  The project also established a fully digital emergency response framework adaptable to various highway risk scenarios.

A series of proprietary software and hardware solutions were developed, including:

· Multi-terminal intelligent emergency management platforms

· Integrated audio-video dispatch systems

· Digital emergency coordination tools

  These innovations significantly reduce emergency response times, optimize response procedures, and enhance the intelligence and precision of highway safety operations and maintenance.

Driving Innovation and Supporting High-Quality Industry Development

This First Prize award follows another major achievement by Fengxin Zhitong in 2025, when its project “Highway Disaster Event Monitoring System Integrating Video AI and Logical Reasoning” received the Second Prize in the China Highway Society Technology Innovation Competition.

The consecutive recognition from authoritative industry organizations reflects strong endorsement of the company's:

· Research and innovation capabilities

· Core technological strengths

· Practical application value of its achievements

  It also marks an important milestone in the company's continued commitment to intelligent transportation technologies and technological advancement, further demonstrating its comprehensive strengths in the digitalization and intelligent transformation of transportation infrastructure.

  Looking ahead, under the leadership of Professor Fu Xinsha, Fengxin Zhitong will continue to focus on the digital and intelligent development of transportation infrastructure. The company plans to further strengthen investment in research and development, accelerate the commercialization and large-scale deployment of technological achievements, and continuously enhance its independent innovation capabilities and professional transportation technology services.

  At the same time, Fengxin Zhitong will deepen the integration of digital technologies with transportation operation and maintenance scenarios, leveraging advanced technologies to support safer, more efficient, and more refined expressway management while contributing to the high-quality and sustainable development of China's transportation industry.

Company Profile

  Fengxin Zhitong (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. was jointly established by Datong and Guangzhou Wanglai Technology Co., Ltd.

Guided by a technology-driven development philosophy, the company specializes in:

· Intelligent transportation systems

· Smart monitoring of transportation infrastructure

· Digital operation and maintenance solutions

  Through continuous technological innovation, product iteration, and commercialization of research achievements, Fengxin Zhitong is committed to supporting the high-quality development of transportation infrastructure.

  Leveraging years of research experience, strong technical expertise, and extensive project implementation capabilities, the company's proprietary technologies and software-hardware solutions have been successfully deployed in expressway projects across numerous provinces, including:

· Guangdong

· Hubei

· Hunan

· Hebei

· Henan

· Liaoning

 These solutions have achieved large-scale industrial application and commercialization.

 Supported by its mature technology platform and extensive implementation experience, Fengxin Zhitong continues to strengthen its technological influence and market competitiveness in intelligent transportation safety management and digital infrastructure operations, establishing itself as a benchmark technology provider within the industry.