A “Shanghai Declaration” that calls for more international cooperation on developing intelligent and connected vehicles was issued at a conference in the city yesterday.

Shanghai is seeking to work with international organizations in building an intelligent connected transport system that has zero emissions and zero casualties, according to the declaration.

It was jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Shanghai’s government, the British Embassy in China, the UK’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, the International Transportation Innovation Center, Nomura Research Institute, and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research.