Aligned with the new-quality disciplinary system, the university focuses on interdisciplinary integration spanning Intelligent Transportation + AI, Unmanned Systems, Mobile Communications, Spatial Information, Intelligent Perception, and Energy & Environment. Keeping pace with new-quality productive forces such as autonomous driving, low-altitude economy, new energy, and the marine economy, and with the goals of achieving originality, leadership, breakthroughs, and disruption, it has distilled 7 cutting-edge interdisciplinary domains of new quality and established 16 pioneering academic and educational reform teams under a new paradigm.
| 1 | Future Multi-Modal Transport |
| 2 | Green Low-Carbon Building of Underground Spaces |
| 3 | Intelligent Traffic Safety and Control |
| 4 | Transportation Systems with Digital Twinning |
| 5 | Integrated Transportation and Smart Logistics |
| 6 | Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Roads |
| 7 | Digital Bridges and Intelligent Flood Resilience |
| 8 | Vehicle-Road-Energy-Cloud Integration |
| 9 | Transportation-Energy Integration and Transportation-Tourism Integration |
| 10 | Low-Altitude Mobility and Smart Airports |
| 11 | Smart Shipping and Offshore Engineering |
| 12 | Polar Mobility and Climate-Resilient Infrastructure |
| 13 | Sustainable Low-Carbon Durable Materials |
| 14 | Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) |
| 15 | Advanced Research Center for Intelligent Connected Mobility Technologies |
| 16 | City Traffic and Scenic Bridge Technologies |