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 1998, School of Traffic and Transportation was set up. In May 2006, in order to adapt to the development of modern logistics and meet the nee d of talents education, based on Department of Logistics Engineering in School of Traffic and Transportation, SWJTU established the first Logistics Institute within all the national "211 Project" universities. In October 2010, under the development strategy guidance of SWJTU that "condensing discipline force, strengthening subject characteristics, improving the academic level, and enhancing the competitiveness of subjects”, School of Traffic and Transportation and School of Logistics were united as School of Transportation and Logistics.

The school was set up in Tangshan, grew up in Emei, and expanded in Chengdu. At present, it has a complete education system from the undergraduate education, to graduate education students and then to post-doctoral education. It has 1 post-doctoral station of transportation engineering, 4 doctoral programs of Transportation Planning and Management, Traffic Engineering, System Engineering and Logistics Engineering; 5 master programs of Transportation Planning and Management, Traffic Engineering, System Science, Safety Science and Engineering, and Logistics Engineering;1 engineeringdoctoralprograms of Transportation Engineering,3 engineering master programs of Transportation Engineering, Safety Engineering and Logistics Engineering; 5 undergraduate programs of Transportation, Traffic Engineering, and Safety Engineering, Logistics Engineering and Logistics Management, among which, Transportation and Traffic Engineering are national characteristic majors. The top-level discipline the school depends on, Transportation Engineering, maintains number one in the major evaluation of Ministry of Education.

At present, there are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 professors selected as “National Renowned Teacher”, 1 professor selected to “Young National Thousand Talents Program”, and 1 professor as “Young Changjiang Scholar”, 1 professor selected to "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" by the Ministry of Education, 3 professors selected to “Thousand Talents Program of Sichuan Province”, 1 professor selected to “Outstanding Young Talents Program of Sichuan Province”, 2 professors selected as “Academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province”, and 1 professor selected as “Outstanding expert with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province”, and 1 professor selected as “Famous teacher in Sichuan Province”. There are more than 180 faculty members, including 38 doctoral supervisors, nearly 90 professors and associate professors, and more than 40 part-time and visiting professors.