Abstract: The resilience research has aroused general interest in the field of disaster risk ,but the transportation re-silience needs to be further studied .To respond to the impact of disasters and other unexpected events on the road trans-portation system ,and to promote the resilience study in China ,this study summarizes the related research results of the resilience fields at home and abroad .Firstly the concept of resilience and the concept of transportation system resilience are discussed .This paper studies further the connotation and denotation of transportation resilience ,advances the defini-tion of transportation resilience ,and makes a distinction between the related concepts .At the same time ,the quantitative evaluation system of the resilience ,quantitative approaches for measuring resilience and associated calculation indicators are reviewed .Later ,the elements of the resilient transportation system are analyzed .Finally ,there are some future in-vestigations including a standardized and uniformly agreed-on definition ,quantitative approaches for measuring resilience , multidisciplinary research ,and the practical application of resilience .