Prof. MA Wei receives Smart Traffic Fund for AI-driven lane-level road network mapping

Congratulations to Prof. MA Wei, Member of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI), Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) and Research Centre for Digital Transformation of Tourism (RCDTT), and Associate Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, on being awarded approximately $7.6 million from the Smart Traffic Fund for his innovative project titled “Development of Vision-Language Model-Based Lane-Level Digital Map Modelling Technology for Establishing Lane-Level Road Network Digital Maps”.

By integrating multi-source geospatial and road data, including street-view imagery, aerial and satellite imagery, government road-network datasets and open-source maps, the platform generates a lane-level digital road network map for Hong Kong.  Through the coordination of specialised AI agents for data interpretation, lane-feature extraction and topology modelling it produces accurate, machine-readable digital maps that capture precise lane-level characteristics, traffic flow directions and road network connectivity.  For project details, please visit: https://stf.hkpc.org/psri-140-2607-pr/