The Transportation Engineering discipline was designated as a National Key Discipline in 2007. Since 2012, it has ranked first/A+ for three consecutive rounds in the national discipline evaluation. In 2017, it was selected into the first batch of the national "Double First-Class" initiative, and in 2021, it passed the evaluation with an "excellent" rating and was selected into the second phase of "Double First-Class" construction.

Grounded in the Transportation Powerhouse Strategy, the discipline is anchored in the integrated development of modern transportation characterized by "multimodal integration, digital intelligence, and green resilience." Aligned with national development plans, it closely follows the development of new quality productive forces clusters including autonomous driving, low-altitude economy, new energy, and marine industries, aiming to build world-class academic programs and support the university in becoming a world-leading institution.With multi-specialty integration as its foundation, multi-disciplinary intersection as its support, road transportation as its core, and integrated transportation as its expansion, the discipline has upgraded and established a "One Body, Two Wings, Three Pillars" intelligent transportation characteristic academic system. This system features digital intelligent transportation as the main body, integrated three-dimensional transportation and green resilient transportation as the two wings, and intelligent road transportation, intelligent low-altitude transportation, and intelligent waterway transportation as the three pillar areas. It covers the entire process of transportation systems from "condition perception→planning and design→construction and operation→service organization→operation management and control," encompassing the full chain of "vehicle carriers, system control, transportation services, and infrastructure," while comprehensively carrying out transformation and upgrading through "data element × integration" and "artificial intelligence + empowerment."

Fully leveraging its leading and service roles, the discipline has served for four consecutive terms as the convener/secretariat unit of the National Transportation Engineering Discipline Evaluation Group. For five consecutive terms, it has led the development of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's strategic development plan for the transportation engineering field. It has led the construction of the Ministry of Transport's Southeast University "Transportation Powerhouse Construction Pilot," and jointly established the Transportation Powerhouse Construction Pilot Strategic Alliance with 12 units including Huawei and Tencent. It has established the Southeast University Transportation Powerhouse Strategy Research Center and Think Tank Alliance, deeply participating in major strategic planning and technical research for the Ministry of Transport, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Ministry of Science and Technology. It has created the "Artificial Intelligence + Transportation" Lecture Series and the "Transportation Powerhouse Frontier Technology" Lecture Series, providing in-depth services for talent cultivation/training and technical exchanges with the Ministry of Transport, provincial transportation departments, enterprises and institutions, as well as countries and regions along the Belt and Road.

In this part you can find what makes up our faculty, what our programs are about, how the Monash Program is offering, and the global communication our school take part in. You can also see our collaboration with the world top universities and research institutes from a clear image. The programs contains 7 majors: transportation planning management, highway and railway engineering, geotechnical engineering, bridge and tunnel engineering, vehicle operation engineering, goedsy and survey engineering, port waterway and coastal engineering and ITS. What makes us unique and the leading discipline in China is shown in the following chapters.