Abstract: The rapid development of transportation not only brings convenience to people′s lives,but also brings se-vere challenges to ecological environment.The sustainable development of transportation logistics,full utilization of trans-portation resources and improvement of transportation effectiveness,etc.,are needed to form the transportation and lo-gistics system of environmental symbiotic type.Implementing green transportation,expanding intermodal transportation, and building up information network are efficient approaches to achieve this obj ective.Under this condition,the 16 th CO-TA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2016)was held by scholars both at home and a-broad.This study provides an overview of this forum and then statistically analyzes the contributions of the papers and presentations within different areas,which includes non-motorized transportation,traffic safety and emergency response, traffic and environment,water and port transportation,railway transportation,etc.Conclusions and summaries,as well as the cutting-edge research topics,are presented based on the current research topics in transportation industry.