Two PAIR projects receive Smart Traffic funding

Two innovative projects led by PAIR researchers were awarded total funding of around HK$17.36 million from the Smart Traffic Fund of the HKSAR government.

The project “Digital Twin-based Long-span Bridge Health Monitoring”, led by Prof. XIA Yong, Management Committee Member of the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things (RIAIoT), Member of the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) and Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, aims to develop a digital twin-based long-span bridge health monitoring platform, which will be applied to the Tsing Ma Bridge.

Another project, “Blockchain-enabled Cyber Physical System for City-wide Parking Management”, led by Dr TSANG Yung-po, Member of the Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM) and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, aims to utilise Web 3.0 and blockchain technology to enable intelligent access control at car parks, as well as AI to evaluate the supply of and demand for parking spaces.