The department of transportation engineering now has 18 faculty members including 4 doctorial supervisors and 7 professors, and more than 80% are doctoral degree holders or Ph.D. candidates. The teaching staff of the department has good age structure, high education background, excellent teaching style and strong teamwork sprit.

The department of transportation engineering is affiliated with the State-level Key Discipline of Vehicle Operation Engineering (Foster) and the Key Laboratories for New Technology of Vehicle Operation Engineering in Jiangsuprovince. The research domains of the department include the theory of vehicle dynamics and control, the simulation and control of vehicle dynamics performance, the control technology of energy conservation and emission reduction for vehicles, the logistics technology for vehicle operations management, traffic information engineering and control, transportation system safety and intelligent control. In recent years, the department has undertaken a lot of national, ministerial or municipal research projects and achieved plentiful research results. Most of the completed projects have reached domestic leading level.

At present the department runs two doctoral programs (Traffic Information Engineering & Control and Vehicle Operation Engineering) and has over 60 doctoral and postgraduate students and also has 200 undergraduate students. Over the past decade, based on the specialized talents training system featuring vehicle application and logistics engineering as well as the matching experiment teaching conditions, the department has produced specialists in various fields including vehicle application and management logistics system planning and design, and so on.