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The ecological crisis goes a long way back and has been brewing for centuries. The main factors of human alienation from nature: technical progress; suppression of pagan culture, that used to be tied to nature, world religions; spread of atheism; consolidation of the positivism paradigm in scientific methodology; triumph of the market economy model. As a result, humans were pulled out of their natural environment. They live and work by rhythms and rules contradicting natural laws. The result is the growing global crisis of industrial civilization.

The article presents the results and interpretation thereof of a study of the transport education transformation as a digital educational ecosystem in the context of the global digitalization processes, the strategy of the state, intellectual priorities for transport and logistics, the market demands. Certain potential innovative forms of modern education are suggested, namely the combined use of university educational resources and employer’s materials and technical resources. They are studied on the example of the first Russian transport engineering higher education institution, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University (PGUPS), where their ongoing implementations are called ‘Innovative site for international educational programmes of proactive training of high-speed railway personnel’, ‘Network University’.