The academic team of highway economy and management, led by Professor Xu Haicheng, is developed by relying on the national key discipline transportation planning and management of our college, and is mainly engaged in scientific research in the field of highway economy and management. The team consists of young and middle-aged professors, associate professors and doctoral students. Professor Xu Haicheng, the core of the team research, is an early expert and scholar who specializes in highway economic and management issues.

The team members have been engaged in scientific research and teaching in the field of highway economy and management for a long time, and have accumulated solid theoretical basis and rich practical experience in scientific research, and have developed the research on highway economy and management into a research field with distinct characteristics and obvious advantages in our university. The rapid development of highway transportation, especially the highway industry, provides a good opportunity for the further construction and improvement of the team.

At present, the main research areas of the team are: 1. Economic theory of highway transportation industry. 2. The management of highway transportation industry, the formulation and implementation of industrial policies and regulations, the government regulation of toll road industry, the highway management system, the highway maintenance management system, etc. 3. Highway enterprise management. 4. The transfer of highway toll right and its price determination, highway construction and operation mode, franchising problems. 5. Economic and management problems such as the coordination between highway transportation industry and national economic development and other industries.