At the World Transport Convention (WTC 2021), the Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport (RIOH) released the Smart Environmental Protection Management and Control Platform for Transportation Construction. Based on a "space-air-ground integrated" environmental management technology system for highway construction, the platform provides professional services for the independent acceptance of completed environmental protection facilities of projects, effectively implementing the "three simultaneities" system for environmental protection facilities of construction projects.

As the technical support unit of the Smart Environmental Protection Management and Control Platform for Transportation Construction, the Highway Transportation Environmental Research Center of RIOH has over the years accumulated rich experience and achieved remarkable results in scientific research on transportation energy conservation and environmental protection, formulation and revision of transportation environmental protection and energy conservation standards, technical services, experimental testing, environmental consulting, soil and water conservation consulting, and other fields. The Smart Environmental Protection Management and Control Platform for Transportation Construction is another major achievement in transportation environmental protection technology innovation.

In response to the requirements of China's current national ecological civilization policies and the needs of the transportation environmental protection industry, the Environmental Center of RIOH analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of existing management and control models, and built a remote sensing inversion model and collaborative data acquisition technology system for road-area environmental factors based on satellite remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing, and ground sensing. It developed the Smart Environmental Protection Management and Control Platform for Transportation Construction, which effectively supports self-environmental supervision during construction regarding the implementation of the environmental impact assessment system for transportation construction projects, and enables intelligent, precise, and efficient during-and-after environmental impact assessment supervision.

The Smart Environmental Protection Management and Control Platform for Transportation Construction features at the application layer a basic geographic information system, a construction-period environmental monitoring and management subsystem, a handover (completion) environmental acceptance subsystem, an environmental public participation subsystem, an environmental electronic archive management subsystem, and an environmental steward expert knowledge base, among others. Its data presentation forms are rich and diverse, including an environmental information disclosure system, an environmental management WeChat official account, an environmental management SMS publishing platform, and a mobile key application platform. The platform integrates analysis, management and control, and processing functions into one, realizing space-air-ground integrated environmental management and control for highway construction, and is an advanced, integrated, and intelligent pioneering work in the industry.

The Smart Environmental Protection Management and Control Platform for Transportation Construction serves different user levels, including construction owners, construction units, supervision units, design units, and consulting units. Centering on the business needs of highway construction environmental protection management, it supports the environmental management and control model throughout the entire highway construction process and pioneers innovative applications of environmental steward services, so as to achieve platform co-construction and data sharing.