About STT

School of Traffic and Transportation

As one of the three origins of the Jiaotong University, BJTU grew out of Beijing Railway Management Institute,China’s first higher educational institution which was committed to fostering railway management talents and initiated modern China’s education in railway management and telecommunication.

School of Traffic and Transportation has the same age with BJTU, and it is the birthplace of Chinese modern transportation education. It has 7 departments which are

Department of Transportation Management Engineering

Department of Traffic Engineering

Department of Traffic Information and Management Engineering

Department of Urban Rail Traffic

Department of Logistics Engineering

Institute of System Engineering and Control

Institute of System Science.

In order to enhance the academic strength and highlight the cooperation advantage of “Industry-University-Research”, School of Traffic and Transportation sets up the following laboratories and research centers:

Integrated Transportation Research Center

Laboratory of Railway Transportation for Dangerous Goods

National Teaching Demonstration Center for Transportation

MOE Key Laboratory for Urban Transportation Complex Systems Theory and Technology

National Virtual Simulation Experiment Center of Traffic and Transportation

Beijing Urban Traffic Information Intelligent Sensing and Service Engineering Technology Research Center

School of Traffic and Transportation also participates in the construction of the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic control and Safety. In addition, it also has a number of off-campus practice bases.

School of Traffic and Transportation now has more than 170 staff members, including 45 professors and 68 associate professors, and owns the high-level teaching and research team composed by the Yangtze river scholars Distinguished Professor and Chair Professors. Now the school has more than 1500 full-time undergraduate students, about 800 full-time graduate students and 350 Ph.D. students.

"Blending the world, Mastery of ancient and modern", School of Traffic and Transportation aims to develop world-class disciplines, educate the outstanding innovative talents in Traffic and Transportation, shape an important source of industry technological innovation, support national economic and social development and inherit the China’s national harmonious culture. It strives to become one of worldwide high-level research schools with the characteristic of traffic and transportation.


北京交通大学作为交通大学的三个源头之一,历史渊源追溯到1896年,前身是清政府创办的北京铁路管理传习所,是中国第一所专门培养管理人才的高等学校。交通运输学院与母校同庚,是我国现代交通运输教育的发祥地,现下设运输管理工程系、交通工程系、交通信息管理工程系、城市轨道交通系、物流工程系及系统工程与控制研究所、系统科学研究所。为提升学术实力,发挥“产学研”合作优势,学院组建了:北京交通大学综合交通研究中心、北京交通大学铁路危险货物运输研究实验室、交通运输国家级教学示范中心、“城市交通复杂系统理论与技术”教育部重点实验室、交通运输国家级虚拟仿真实验中心、北京市城市交通信息智能感知与服务工程技术研究中心。参与“轨道交通控制与安全”国家级重点实验室的建设。另外学院还设有多个校外实习基地。

交通运输学院现有教职员工170余人,其中教授45人,副教授68人,拥有由“长江学者”特聘教授、“长江学者” 讲座教授等组成的高水平教学科研团队。学院在册全日制本科生1500余人,全日制硕士研究生800人左右、博士研究生350人左右。

“交融世界、通达古今”,交通运输学院以建设世界一流学科、培养交通运输拔尖创新人才、塑造行业科技创新的重要源头、支撑国家经济社会发展、传承中华民族和谐文化为己任,努力成为世界一流、特色鲜明的高水平研究型交通运输学院。