Recently, the School of Transportation Engineering of Tongji University (referred to as Tongji Transportation College) has received frequent good news, and new achievements have continued to emerge in terms of talent training, scientific research and innovation:
On September 26, organized by Professor Li Xinghua of Tongji Transportation College, Tongji University The industry-university-research consortium jointly established with China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Institute Group Co., Ltd., Huashe Design Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Urban Transportation Planning and Design Research Center Co., Ltd., and Civil Aviation University of China has been recognized as a key laboratory for comprehensive transportation theory in the transportation industry.
On December 8, the International Tunnel and Underground Space Association (ITA) announced the global winners list of the 8th "ITA Tunnel Award". As a scientific and technological consulting unit, the team of Professor Zhou Shunhua of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Structural Durability and System Safety of Rail Transit at Tongji Transportation College, in conjunction with Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co., Ltd. and other units, won the only Transcendent Engineering Award of the year for the multi-pipe jacking combination method to build a subway station project.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that we should adhere to the priority development of education, self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology, and talent leadership, and accelerate the construction of a strong country in education, science and technology, and a strong country in talent. In recent years, Tongji Transportation College has thoroughly implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on scientific and technological innovation, comprehensively deepened the reform of scientific research systems and mechanisms, continuously stimulated the vitality of scientific research and innovation, gathered "big teams", built "big platforms", undertaken "big tasks", and produced "big results", built a scientific research and innovation system suitable for first-class universities, and continued to contribute the wisdom of Tongji Transportation to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and accelerate the construction of a strong transportation country.
The internationally leading full-scale accelerated loading test system for pavement.
Gathering "big teams"
Improving scientific research capabilities
In recent years, Tongji Jiaotong University has been committed to building innovative teams that are urgently needed for the world's scientific frontiers and national strategies. These scientific research teams have achieved remarkable results in continuously promoting basic research and improving core technology research capabilities. The scientific research results of many teams have won national, provincial and ministerial awards.
has successively undertaken a number of scientific research projects such as the National "863" Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China , National Key Research and Development Program , etc., published academic papers such as "The Connotation and Architecture of Intelligent Pavement", published academic works such as "New Progress in Intelligent Pavement Technology", and took the lead in compiling a Shanghai local standard... The intelligent pavement innovation team led by Professors Ling Jianming and Zhao Hongduo of Tongji Jiaotong University has made great achievements.
Since 2008, the smart pavement innovation team has conducted key research and practical applications around the scientific concepts, technical architecture, development paths, functional systems, etc. of smart pavement. The research results supported the construction of the first domestic runway at Pudong International Airport in 2012. The trait sensing system supported the construction of China's first new smart runway at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport in 2020. In the same year, it supported the intelligent upgrade of the runway at Beijing Capital International Airport and the Shanxi Traffic Control Group's construction of an intelligent pavement system for heavy-duty intelligent networked truck fleets.
Ling Jianming (second from left) leads the research team to guide the installation and debugging of intelligent sensing sensors in the smart runway project of Chengdu Tianfu International Airport.
The road infrastructure digital management technology innovation team led by Professor Du Yuchuan of Tongji Transportation College focuses on the digital management of road infrastructure and carries out technical research in the fields of road performance testing and vehicle-road system interaction. It has achieved fruitful results in theoretical research breakthroughs, scientific research results transformation, and large-scale industrial applications. The lightweight inspection technology developed by the team supported Shanghai's Xuhui District to build the country's first smart municipal road management system with separated patrol and management in 2020. It helped Shanghai build the first smart high-speed digital twin operation and management platform in 2022, and supported the digital construction of a series of major national projects such as Xiong'an New District and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.The team continues to tackle key problems in the field of static traffic digital management and intelligent services, creating a full-chain technology system that digitizes urban parking, integrates management and control, and induces intelligence, and serves the refined management of parking in many megacities, key areas, and large-scale events across the country.
The high-frequency inspection technology developed by Du Yuchuan helps Xuhui build a comprehensive municipal maintenance information management platform.
Professor Sun Jian’s team at Tongji Transportation College has long been committed to research fields such as traffic flow theory and traffic simulation, autonomous driving and vehicle-road collaboration, traffic data analysis and control, and active traffic management. Through theoretical innovation, model breakthroughs, and collaborative research, we independently developed a new generation of microscopic traffic simulation system, TESS NG. The team has delved into the core theories of transportation system modeling, simulation and optimization, pioneered new research directions in autonomous driving and vehicle-road collaboration, and is committed to providing transformative planning and decision-making methods, virtual evaluation technology and collaborative autonomous driving technology for the autonomous driving era. The team focused on key technologies such as holographic perception, global recognition, precision control, and collaborative management and control, and achieved new breakthroughs in digital twins and active management and control, and developed a new generation of trajectory-based traffic collaborative management and control theories, methods, and digital twin solutions.
Sun Jian leads the team to develop smart high-speed traffic simulation and digital twin technology.
Professor Ma Wanjing of Tongji Transportation College leads the traffic control and service team to carry out cutting-edge and practical research in the fields of traffic design and control, shared transportation services, vehicle-road collaborative systems, etc., facing national and social needs and international research frontiers. The team has developed a series of application systems and core equipment such as bus operation evaluation and diagnosis, intelligent dispatching, priority control, and information service , providing innovative solutions to outstanding problems such as weak matching of supply and demand for ground buses, poor reliability, and low operating efficiency. The project results have been applied in a series of major projects and have achieved good results. Taking Shanghai as an example, the priority control response rate of the Yan'an Road medium-volume bus project reached 95%, and delays were reduced by 21%; the project result "Key Technologies and Applications of Precision Service and Efficient Management and Control of Large City Ground Buses" won the first prize of the 2020 Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award.
The project "Key Technologies and Applications of Precision Service and Efficient Management and Control of Ground Buses in Large Cities" led by Ma Wanjing won the first prize of the 2020 Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award.
Build a "big platform"
Effectively support scientific research and innovation
Tongji University Transportation Engineering has a long history, a complete system, and rich comprehensive transportation research results. In 2017, this discipline was included in the national " double first-class " construction, becoming one of the world-class disciplines that Tongji University focuses on. In 2021, the discipline was selected into the Shanghai Peak Discipline Construction Plan for the third consecutive period.
Since 2018, Tongji Transportation Institute has been approved to build the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rail Transit Structural Durability and System Safety, the Key Laboratory of Civil Aviation Flight Area Facility Durability and Operation Safety, and the Shanghai Municipal Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Transportation Engineering. It has established multiple cooperative research centers or experimental platforms with relevant provinces, cities and large enterprises; it has established the China Transportation Research Institute, dedicated to building a high-end think tank for future transportation. In addition to the school's existing National Maglev Transportation Engineering Technology Research Center and the Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University's transportation engineering discipline has become a high-level discipline base in the field of transportation engineering in China.
Not long ago, the Ministry of Transport issued "Opinions on Tongji University's Pilot Work on Building a Transportation Powerful Nation with Key Technologies for Resilience Improvement of Transportation Infrastructure" , agreeing in principle that Tongji University will carry out pilot projects in key technologies for improving the resilience of transportation infrastructure, key technologies for low-carbon development of integrated transportation, key technologies for intrinsic safety assurance of road transportation systems, key technologies for integrated travel services and governance, key technologies for comprehensive transportation hub construction and smart operations, construction of high-speed maglev transportation equipment integrated verification and comprehensive evaluation platforms, and intelligent vehicle-road collaborative system innovation talent training.The person in charge of the relevant department of Tongji University said that this provides a valuable opportunity for the school to give full play to its comprehensive advantages in disciplines, deepen cross-integration, and promote the transformation and development of traditional disciplines.
In the future, the Key Laboratory of Integrated Transportation Theory and Transportation Industry will focus on accelerating the construction of a transportation powerhouse and building a modern high-quality national integrated three-dimensional transportation network, carry out basic theoretical and applied theoretical research on integrated transportation, build a comprehensive transportation theoretical system with Chinese characteristics, lead the integrated development of various transportation modes, give full play to the comparative advantages of various transportation modes, and support the accelerated formation of a safe, convenient, efficient, green, and economical comprehensive transportation system.
Tongji Transportation College is committed to aiming at comprehensive, intelligent, green and safe development, with the goal of being world-class and domestically leading, and building a future-oriented transportation discipline construction system through resource integration, collaborative innovation and mechanism reform, and comprehensively improving the discipline connotation, academic quality and overall level of transportation engineering. In the process of implementing and promoting the institute's "14th Five-Year Plan", Tongji Transportation Institute has proposed the "A+123456" major transportation development goals, namely 1 new academician, 2 national-level teaching or scientific research platforms, 3 people who have won the Yangtze River, Outstanding Youth and other national-level talent titles, more than 4 national-level awards, 5 national first-class courses or teaching teams, and 6 national major engineering service projects.
Based on intelligent technology, promoting the cross-integration of transportation engineering disciplines is the direction of Tongji University's future transportation efforts. In the next step, Tongji University will give full play to the advantages of artificial intelligence disciplines and interdisciplinarity, making artificial intelligence a "yeast" and making the transportation engineering discipline even more powerful.
Undertake "big tasks"
Serve the country's innovative development
In recent years, Tongji Jiaotong University has taken the initiative to plan and undertake major projects at the forefront of national strategic science and technology and urgently needed to serve the country's "urgent and dangerous situations" and live up to its mission.
The Qinghai-Tibet Highway plays an important role in Tibet's economic development and social stability. In seriously diseased sections, the driving conditions of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway are still poor. To this end, Researcher Yang Zhen of Tongji Transportation College led a team to conduct risk identification and prevention research on highway reconstruction and maintenance operations in plateau and alpine areas based on the second section of the Qinghai-Tibet G109 Golmud to Nagqu highway reconstruction project. Based on the characteristics of construction projects in high-altitude areas, combined with the results of risk source identification and analysis, from the aspects of risk control measures and risk management suggestions, the team researched and formed targeted engineering construction and maintenance risk control countermeasures.
Facing the major national industrial development strategies, Tongji Jiaotong University has always focused on improving its key core technology research capabilities and accelerating the construction of an innovative country and a world science and technology power.
In 2021, led by Tongji University, Professor Du Yuchuan was the chief scientist's national key research and development project "Research on Theoretical Methods of Cyber-Physics Modeling and Assessment of Elastic Transportation Systems". The project is the first approved national-level major research project in the field of elastic transportation research. It focuses on the issue of improving the elasticity of transportation systems that is of widespread concern around the world. It proposes for the first time the construction of a general theoretical system for elastic transportation cyber-physical systems based on cyber-physical system architecture, with traceable development processes, knowable status, controllable operations, and system availability. It provides a reliable theoretical basis for the planning, design, operation management, and renewal of new-generation transportation infrastructure. The project research is expected to effectively improve the comprehensive response capabilities of my country's urban transportation system under the impact of natural disasters and emergencies, and serve to accelerate the construction of a transportation power.
In 2022, the national key research and development plan "Research on Key Technologies and Standards for Credibility Evaluation of Human-Vehicle-Road Cooperative Autonomous Driving" organized by Tongji Transportation College and Professor Yu Xiong was approved. The project unites 10 top domestic R&D institutions in the field of autonomous driving evaluation. Facing the large-scale commercial demand for autonomous driving, it proposes for the first time the credibility connotation of autonomous driving that is highly safe, highly available, understandable, predictable and traceable, and develops a credibility evaluation method system of "cluster in the loop - full chain testing - closed loop evaluation".This project will provide a reliable foundation for autonomous driving from demonstration to commercial standard certification, promote the development of the hundreds of billions of people-vehicle-road collaborative autonomous driving industry, and help accelerate the construction of a transportation powerhouse.
In addition, Professor Ye Jianhong of Tongji Transportation College aims at the new travel service model of " Internet + transportation" and focuses on the field of shared travel to study the theory of traffic travel behavior and demand forecasting methods under the Internet and information environment; Professor Cong Lin is based on his own research direction - subgrade pavement engineering, microscopic analysis of road materials, and participates in major projects such as research on asphalt pavement design indicators and parameters, and research on tunnel pavement structures and materials.
Tongji Transportation College has also made outstanding contributions in related work in the field of comprehensive transportation planning, especially in transportation planning theory and technical methods, representative planning practices, and the construction of planning research platforms. In recent years, Tongji Transportation Planning has always been based on national strategic needs, taking serving the high-quality development of Shanghai's urban and transportation infrastructure as an important goal. It has made active efforts in a series of major planning projects such as the Shanghai 2035 Master Plan, the Shanghai Transportation Development White Paper, transportation planning and construction in key strategic areas such as the World Expo Park and Hongqiao Hub, and new city transportation development.
Produce "big results"
Improve the quality of scientific and technological achievement transformation
In recent years, Tongji Jiaotong University has always strengthened its orientation towards major results, strengthened full-chain management, continuously improved the quality of scientific and technological achievement transformation, and continued to produce core key technologies and original and leading major achievements. At the same time, organized scientific research was strengthened and landmark results were achieved.
In view of the international problem that traditional testing cannot guarantee the full-time safety and efficient operation of the runway, Professor Ling Jianming’s team has conducted 9 years of systematic research and carried out joint industry-university-research research in aspects such as design and construction, device research and development, theoretical methods, and networking systems. It has formed a complete set of smart runway technologies and achieved a number of important innovations, which has effectively promoted the scientific and technological progress of the industry. Currently, smart runway technology has been promoted and applied in 9 civilian and military airports including Chengdu Tianfu, Beijing Capital, and Beijing Southern Suburbs. Its project research results have generally reached the international leading level, forming 3 industry standards, 2 monographs, 313 authorized national invention patents, and won the first prize of China Air Transport Association Civil Aviation Science and Technology Award.
Ling Jianming (first from left) introduced the research results of smart runways at the Airport Smart Development and Technological Innovation Achievements Exhibition.
In view of the theoretical and technical problems of asphalt pavement damage and cracking in the field of road engineering, Professor Zhu Xingyi's team proposed the asphalt two-stage self-healing model based on the wetting diffusion theory, constructed an asphalt material crack self-healing evaluation model, and developed microcapsule self-healing technology and ferrite microwave self-healing technology. , extends the fatigue life of asphalt pavement to 2.3 times ; a series of high-performance pavement disease repair materials have been developed, achieving full coverage of all stages of the development of asphalt pavement cracks, cracks, potholes, slurry and other pavement crack diseases, and solving the common technical bottlenecks of traditional pavement disease treatment technologies such as low construction efficiency, poor material durability, and multiple secondary diseases. These research results have strongly supported the innovative development of long-life, high-performance asphalt pavement construction and maintenance technology, and won the first prize of the 2021 China Highway Society Science and Technology Award.
With the gradual implementation of my country's major strategies such as ecological civilization, transportation power, and "double carbon" goals, the sustainable and resilient development of road infrastructure faces greater challenges. The ecological transformation of pavement and the research and development of new generation pavement technology are imperative.
Professor Li Hui of Tongji Transportation College focused on the ecological sustainable development of road infrastructure and developed high-performance ecological road materials with the composite functions of high water permeability, strong water purification, strong noise reduction, and strong cooling. has created road mechanics-ecological balance synergy theory and technology, and developed ecological-durable pavement efficient construction equipment and management and control platforms. The relevant results have been successfully applied to major projects such as the green Winter Olympics connecting highway, the external backbone road network of Xiongan New Area, Jingde, Rongwu Expressway , Shanghai Chongming World-class Ecological Island Ecological Avenue.The research results won the first prize of the 2021 China Highway Society Science and Technology Award and the first prize of the 2022 China Invention Association Invention and Entrepreneurship Award Achievement Award.
Li Hui's team applied ecological road technology to the Winter Olympics Yanchong Expressway , the heavy-duty permeable pavement of Hebei Qugang Expressway, and the external backbone road network of Xiongan New Area.
work together to draw a new blueprint for rejuvenation and work together to create new historical achievements. Education, science and technology, and talents are the basic and strategic support for comprehensively building a modern socialist country. We must adhere to the principle that science and technology is the primary productive force, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force, and we must thoroughly implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country through talent, and the strategy of innovation-driven development, open up new areas and new tracks for development, and constantly create new momentum and new advantages for development. Looking forward to the future, Tongji Transportation College will continue to adhere to the principle of "walking with the motherland and benefiting the world with science and education", taking serving the national strategic needs as an eternal pursuit, taking the advantages of transportation disciplines as the basis, comprehensively strengthening the construction of the innovation system, improving independent innovation capabilities, serving the national strategy with higher quality and greater contribution, and contributing more to accelerating the construction of a strong transportation and science and technology country, and achieving high-level scientific and technological independence and self-reliance.
Author丨Huang Zerong Xiao Junhua Yang Zhidan
Picture丨Tongji University School of Transportation Engineering
Editor丨Yuan Shuai Chen Xuefei
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