The National Transport University (abbr. NTU) is a higher education institution with an IV level of accreditation in Kyiv, Ukraine. The main building is located in the capital and major reconstructed building of the former Kyiv-Pechersk Gymnasium.

In 1944, the Order of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 11.06 of November 7, 1944, established the Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute (KADI), the future National Transport University (NTU). Two faculties were created, road and mechanical, for the training of specialists in four specialties: highways, bridges, automobiles, and the automobile industry, road machines, and mechanisms. Yuriy Mykolayovych Dadenkov has been appointed as the director of KADI.

In 1945, 247 students and 49 professors, associate professors, and teachers worked at KADI. In the post-war period, the first director of the newly created institute, Y. M. Dadenkov (later a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, for many years, the Minister of Higher Education of Ukraine) managed to attract many scientists to his teaching work.

1958: The mechanical faculty of KADI was renamed the automotive faculty.

1959: Evgeny Petrovych Verizhenk was appointed rector of KADI.

1964: A research sector was created at KADI (subsequently called the scientific part).

In August 1994, after state accreditation, KADI received the status of a technical university, the highest level of IV accreditation, and the name Ukrainian Transport University (UTU).

1998: The Faculty of Pre-University Training was created based on the preparatory department and preparatory courses.