NACTranS is the first academic competition for college students in China, which is promoted by the cooperation of many universities with superior positions in the field of traffic engineering. It is a national and academic traffic science and technology innovation competition with college students as the main participants.

The professional scope of the competition includes transportation, traffic engineering, vehicle application engineering, traffic information engineering and control, logistics and other disciplines, as well as civil engineering (road and railway construction direction) and management (transportation-related).

The contest was jointly organized by Tongji University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Central South University, Southeast University, Chang 'an University, Wuhan University of Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University and Beijing Jiaotong University. Professor Yang Dongyuan, vice president of Tongji University, served as the chairman of the organizing committee of the contest, and Professor Yan Xinping, vice president of Wuhan University of Technology, served as the vice chairman of the organizing committee. Professor Wang Wei from Southeast University and Wang Dianhai from Jilin University were invited as members of the organizing committee.