Founded in September 2011, the center is built upon the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering and the Department of Transportation Engineering at SJTU, conducting research on traffic data collection, urban and marine environment monitoring with UAVs and miniature mobile sensing instruments.

The Center for Intelligent Transportation and UAV Applications at Shanghai Jiao Tong University was founded in September 2011. Built upon the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering and the Department of Transportation Engineering (NAOCE), it pioneers traffic data collection, urban and marine environment monitoring with UAVs and miniature mobile sensing instruments.
2 PhD and 3–4 M.S. students admitted every year; all majors welcome, programming skills required.
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Traffic Pollution & Carbon Emissions · NEV Energy Consumption Analysis · UAV & Environment Monitoring · UAV Road Inspection · UAV Energy Facility Inspection


Built on our PEMS on-road emission measurements.

Courses · Reform projects · Teaching awards · covered by major media

1 PI · 1 postdoc · 7 PhD candidates · 9 M.S. candidates, incl. international students


Nanyang Technological University
Seoul National University (Urban Energy Group)
UNSW Sydney
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Shanghai NEV Data Collection & Monitoring Center
Joint R&D, consulting and data services for low-carbon transportation and the low-altitude economy — business partners welcome.
(Cases & partner list to be updated)
Room A-308, Mulan Building
800 Dongchuan Rd, Shanghai, China
HE Hongdi: hongdihe@sjtu.edu.cn