To proactively respond to the challenges brought by the new‑round scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation， the cultivation of engineering and technical talents serving national strategies has become a linchpin of national competitiveness. Currently， the new global wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation is well underway. Driven by the rapid advancement of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence， big data and Internet of Things， competition in comprehensive national strength among countries worldwide has grown increasingly fierce， placing higher demands on the development of China’s higher engineering education and the cultivation of innovative engineering and technological talents. Aiming at the pressing challenges in the cultivating of outstanding engineers for traffic engineering and drawing on practical experience from the School of Traffic and Transportation， Beijing Jiaotong University， this paper holds that in response to the demand for cultivating engineering and technical talents to support the national strategy of the “transportation powerhouse”， an innovative talent‑training model featuring “one objective， three combinations and four types of resources” for outstanding traffic‑engineering engineers should be constructed. This model relies on industry‑education integration to nurture innovative talents and central‑local collaboration to realize the sharing of high-quality resources. Furthermore， a talent‑cultivating system for outstanding traffic‑engineering engineers that integrates scientific research， technological development and engineering practice should be established to resolve the difficulty of sharing high-quality resources for students’ engineering‑practice and innovation‑ability development.