Aligned with national strategic goals and global scientific frontiers, the School of Transportation prioritizes frontier advancements in personnel training, research excellence, and disciplinary development, persistently elevating its scholarly impact domestically and internationally.With a focus on deepening the depth and breadth of international cooperation, the School utilized the construction of Chinese-foreign academic exchange platforms as a bond and prioritized the introduction of high-quality overseas educational resources. It actively carried out diverse and substantive forms of international cooperation and exchanges. The School strengthened the construction of overseas talent teams, expanded the international influence of its journals, enhanced the level of internationalized teaching, enriched academic activities both at home and abroad, actively organized and participated in international conferences, and promoted the formation of a new pattern of international cooperation and exchanges that is all-dimensional, wide-ranging, and multi-tiered.

School of Transportation vigorously encourages and supports various types of long-term and short-term international exchange programs, and has established long-term and stable cooperative relationships with universities in multiple countries and regions. In 2025, supported by the "International Exchange Program" dispatch project of the National Postdoctoral Program, one postdoctoral researcher was sent to the National University of Singapore to conduct research work. Thirty-four graduate students successfully applied for funding from the CSC Long-term International Exchange Program, with twenty-nine graduate students currently undertaking their projects and eleven graduate students making short-term visits abroad. In 2025, 205 graduate students attended various international conferences held in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other locations, among which 139 graduate students participated in the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in the United States. These efforts have laid a solid foundation for cultivating transportation professionals with an international perspective.

The School of Transportation has vigorously expanded channels for international joint training and exchanges. In February 2025, online discussions were held with the University of Tennessee, USA, regarding the establishment of a summer school program, reaching preliminary cooperation intentions. In May 2025, further discussions were conducted with Carnegie Mellon University, USA, on the "3+X" joint education program, entering the MOU negotiation stage with internal university approval procedures completed. A visit was made to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to investigate joint education programs for young overseas faculty, with preliminary intentions for joint training programs determined. In July 2025, an online meeting was held with Newcastle University, UK, to discuss the "2+2" joint education program and to explore cooperation in smart water transport, smart low-altitude transportation, and other fields at the Nantong campus. Both parties plan to establish relevant new program directions at the Nantong campus. In September 2025, the formal signing of the integrated bachelor's-master's cultivation program with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University was completed.

As the most prestigious, largest-scale, and most widely attended academic conference in the international transportation research field, the TRB Annual Meeting serves as an important window for academic exchanges for the School of Transportation and provides a crucial opportunity for Southeast University to enhance its international reputation and promote internationalized education. The School of Transportation fully utilized the platform provided by the TRB Annual Meeting to actively promote exchanges with renowned overseas universities, proactively recruit high-level overseas talents, and host the Reception and Talent Recruitment Symposium every January, engaging in extensive exchanges with numerous overseas alumni and scholars.

School of Transportation actively participates in aid projects along the Belt and Road Initiative and international cooperation in the transportation sector, consistently adhering to an open and collaborative educational philosophy while vigorously expanding its international research and education exchange network. The School has made connections to Universitas Indonesia (Indonesia University), University of Pretoria (South Africa),  ALT Uhinesity（Kazakhstan）to launch substantive cooperation, jointly promoting the two-way integration of scientific research innovation and engineering applications, and building long-term and stable mechanisms for talent cultivation, academic exchanges, faculty mutual visits, and research collaboration.