Review and prospect on management of transportation and vehicle engineering discipline under NSFC in 2024

The discipline of transportation and vehicle engineering under the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) focuses on the pressing demands of the economic forefront and national security through a "demand-driven and problem-oriented" approach. The discipline layout covers fundamental, forward-looking, original, transformative, and ground-breaking research and promotes the growth of the system through organized scientific research efforts. The specific content of this article includes: the application, acceptance, and funding status of the funded projects and an overview of organized scientific research efforts in the transportation and vehicle engineering discipline for 2024, and an interpretation of the key project call for proposals for 2025. In 2025, the discipline will continue to prioritize funding for the specific domains to propel their development, including the reconfigurable design of large space transfer vehicles for on-orbit refuelling, autonomous driving evaluation and verification, configuration design of mobile carrier platform and multi-platform coordinated operation, chassis coordinated control for distributed electric vehicles, special vehicles with reconfigurable or variable structures, blended wing-body layout aircraft design, aircraft/engine matching for wide-area flight and adaptive control for combined-engine variable flow channel, multi-network integration of multi-mode three-dimensional transportation, and coordinated operation of transportation systems in flight areas of hub airports.