As one of the schools which have long and rich history in Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), School of Transport and Logistics provides an important support for the university characterized by transport. In the past 50 years, the school has always taken "based on rail transportation, facing comprehensive transportation, and servicing economic development" as the guiding ideology. It has made remarkable achievements in the areas of discipline construction, education, talents training, scientific research, laboratory construction, foreign exchange, Party construction and students affair, and social services.

In 1956, Department of Railway Transportation of Tangshan Railway Institute was established, and later was renamed as Department of Transportation Engineering in 1985. In 19...