Abstract: At present, urban rail transit is developing rapidly. With the gradual growth of urban rail transit construction and operation scale, the number of operating cities of rail transit is increasing, the technical equipment is improving, and the professional technical personnel of rail transit are especially in short supply. The major of urban traffic communication is set up to serve the development of urban rail transit industry. It mainly trains high-quality talents. They not only need to master the installation and debugging skills of urban rail transit communication system and equipment, but also have the ability to analyze, diagnose and handle faults. In this paper, CDIO is applied to the construction of urban rail transit communication major in order to cultivate technical talents with "pragmatic, meticulous and standardized" professional quality and "innovation, development and independence" comprehensive ability, and solve the problem of shortage of urban rail professionals.

Key words: Urban rail transit, Transportation and communication education, CDIO mode