As a traditional industry, transportation enterprises are easy to fall into a self-enclosed smallscale circle on technology innovation due to their inherent natural monopoly characteristics. Although there is a certain degree of improvement given that most restructuring of transportation enterprises has been completed around 2010, transportation enterprises still haven’t reached great technological breakthroughs, are heavily dependent on the government and lack innovation ability and motivation. In addition, a fair, just and open technology market and management system haven’t been formed. There is a gap to meet the "18th" requirement that enterprise technology innovation should break significant technical bottlenecks and speed up the research, development and application of new techniques, products and technology. Compared with the requirement of the "New Normal" that transportation industry should gradually transform from a way of extensive development into a, sustainable model of development with high efficiency and low cost, current situations still need to be improved. Besides, the supporting and leading role of technology in the transformation of economic development and restructuring of economy isn’t obvious. This paper starts from the analysis of the characteristics of the transport sector,analyzes the current situation and challenges in the technology research and development of traditional transportation enterprises, puts forward the new requirement for technology enterprises under the "New Normal" , takes information technology as an example to explain how to break the industry’s self-closed state, and provides measures and suggestions to stimulate the technological innovation of transportation enterprises.