Digital Transformation Practices in Transportation Governance in Guangzhou
The development of information technology has promoted the digital transformation of the trans-portation industry. Further research is needed to explore the specific role of digitization in transportation governance. Considering the status of digital development, this paper proposed that traffic congestion man-agement is a crucial component of urban governance, and data empowerment and dynamic management are vital levers and inevitable requirements for urban transportation governance. The paper discusses how transportation governance can undergo digital transformation through key technologies, such as the pro-cessing of spatio-temporal big traffic data, integrated traffic simulation, definition of road network thresh-olds, and traffic situation analysis. Focusing on Guangzhou as a case study, the paper summarizes the digi-tal governance experience and main achievements in aspects such as traffic operation evaluation, traffic management policies, signal control optimization, traffic organization, and management of road occupation construction. The results show that digitization plays roles in monitoring, examination, evaluation, feed-back, and revision in transportation governance, which enriches governance methods and makes response measures more precise and effective.