Recently, at the invitation of Cambridge University, Prof. Lee Der-Horng, Dean of ZJUI, led a delegation including Prof. Chen Xiqun, Director of the Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems at Zhejiang University, and Assist Prof. Simon Hu, Assistant Dean of ZJUI, to attend an international conference on sustainable road freight in the UK, and further expanded exchanges and cooperation with the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

On December 1, 2023 (local time), ZJUI and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge jointly signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation. Academician Lee Der-Horng, Dean of ZJUI, Academician of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, and Fellow David Cebon of the University of Cambridge and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, signed memorandums of understanding on behalf of the two parties.

According to the Memorandum of Understanding, both parties will actively promote and deepen academic cooperation in the next three years, including jointly building a research center for sustainable urban road transportation and logistics, promoting mutual research and further education between faculty members and students, and exchanging high-quality educational resources between the two schools. The signing of this Memorandum of Understanding not only builds a platform for academic cooperation between the two universities, promotes exchanges and cooperation in research and teaching in the direction of Sustainable Smart Livable Cities, but also lays the foundation for the long-term cooperation mechanism between the two universities in related disciplines. In the future, both sides will further integrate the numerous research platforms including ZJUI and the Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems, jointly coupling and innovating in the field of sustainable urban roads, transportation, and logistics research worldwide, promoting academic exchanges between China and foreign countries, and creating a research atmosphere of interdisciplinary integration and team collaboration and development.

The University of Cambridge, founded in 1209, is one of the world's top universities and the second oldest in the English-speaking world. It operates on an academy system and has over 19000 full-time students. According to the Times Higher Education World University Discipline Rankings, the University of Cambridge ranks in the top 10 globally in fields such as arts and humanities, law, business and economics, social sciences, clinical medicine and health, computer science, engineering and technology, life sciences, and natural sciences. The University of Cambridge is known as the "Golden Triangle " and the "G5 Super Elite University". In 2018, Zhejiang University signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Cambridge, focusing on a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary, and multi-level partnership strategy, focusing on business research and student cultivation in fields such as new finance, new retail, new technology, new industries, and new markets.