Overview

The Intelligent Transportation Thrust offers postgraduate research programs leading to the PhD degrees with intelligent transportation engineering and technologies as a major focus. Areas of research may include big data for transportation and mobility; connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV); operation and management of urban rail transit systems; green aviation technologies; transportation electrification; shared mobility, mobility as a service (MaaS); integrated sensing, communications and computing for transportation; safety and efficiency of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); automated port operations and shipping logistics; urban computing and spatio-temporal data mining and low altitude space economy. The programs will provide a well-rounded education as well as rigorous research training to prepare students to become versatile and knowledgeable and to achieve the following objectives.

• PhD graduates should be capable of conducting high-quality original research, creating new knowledge, deriving valuable insights, and making tangible impacts on academia and the field.