Road and railway engineering are two disciplines of transportation engineering, which belong to the first-class discipline. This subject studies the basic theories and key technologies in the planning, survey, design, construction, operation, maintenance and management of transportation infrastructure such as railways, highways, urban roads and airports. Professional code: 08230 1

Professional Name: Road and Railway Engineering Discipline

English name: Highway &; Railway Engineering Road and railway engineering is an important base for highway traffic scientific research and high-level personnel training in China. In recent years, with the rapid development of highway transportation in China, relying on the key laboratory of highway engineering in special areas and the key laboratory of road structure and material transportation industry, the discipline of road and railway engineering has made a number of important research achievements in subgrade engineering, pavement engineering, road building materials, the structure and performance of road materials, the development and application of new road materials, road survey and design, and the structure and performance of subgrade and pavement in special areas, which has great influence at home and abroad. Won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress and more than 50 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards; He has published more than 1000 papers, more than 40 textbooks and monographs in core journals at home and abroad, and approved 23 patents.

In recent years, researchers in highway and railway engineering have made outstanding contributions to the national economy and China's highway transportation. The scientific research results have greatly promoted the development of transportation and produced great social and economic benefits. In recent years, it has undertaken hundreds of national, provincial and ministerial key projects and extensive horizontal cooperation projects, with research funding of more than 80 million yuan. At present, it has undertaken major research projects: research on pavement base construction technology in permafrost regions, research on construction control technology of large-particle gravel subgrade, research on evaluation method of waterproof and drainage and flood resistance of mountain roads, research on treatment technology of subgrade and pavement diseases in collapsible loess regions, research on coupling effect of water, heat and force and variation law of subgrade and pavement temperature field, and research on pavement in permafrost regions.

The discipline of road and railway engineering pays attention to international exchanges and cooperation, and has established various forms of bilateral exchanges and cooperation with many famous universities and research institutions in more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia, Australia, Japan and South Africa, which has promoted the overall level of the discipline of road and railway engineering.

This topic focuses on the major problems and key technologies in highway construction. The research work is based on the western region, facing the whole country and meeting the needs of the western development. International advanced research achievements have been made in the fields of subgrade and pavement structure in plateau frozen soil area, high-grade highway construction technology in loess area, road construction technology in desert area, pavement material structure theory and modification technology, highway disaster prevention technology, etc., and subgrade and pavement structure and performance in special areas, pavement material structure theory and modification technology, modern survey and design technology of mountainous expressway, highway disaster prevention technology and expressway have been formed. The academic team has a reasonable age structure, strong overall strength and strong development momentum.