Foshan has a modern transport system integrating all types of transportation－air, rail, road and water. The Guangzhou-Foshan Metro Line, with a total length of about 21.5 kilometers, was opened in 2010.The first-stage projects of Metro Lines 2 and 3,plus Line 7 of the Guangzhou Metro, are under construction, with a total distance of about 113.7 km. 

The phase II project of Metro Line 2 and the Phase I projects of Metro Lines 4, 11 and 13 have been included in the Foshan rail transport construction plan (2019-24). Guangzhou-Maoming Railway, the passenger transport line of Wuhan-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, Guangzhou-Zhuhai Railway, Guiyang-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, and Nanning-Guangzhou Railway have all been put into operation (it takes just four hours to get to Nanning, and just five hours to get to Guiyang). 

Meanwhile, Guangzhou-Zhanjiang High-Speed Railway, Nansha Port Railway, Kunming-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway, Liuzhou-Guangzhou Railwayand others are all under construction. Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Railway and Foshan-Zhaoqing Intercity Railway have been put into operation, while Guangfo Ring Line, Guangzhou-Foshan-Jiangmen-Zhuhai Intercity Railway and Zhaoqing-Shunde-Nansha Intercity Railway are all under construction.

Foshan's highways have a distance of 529 km and a density of 13.9 km/100 sq km. Foshan Shadi Airport has launched flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Shijiazhuang, and other destinations.

A total of four remote terminals connect with Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, and an international aviation hub is being planned.

Foshan has 15 ports, four of which are Class I ports (Shunde Port, Nanhai Port, Gaoming Port and Foshan Railway Station), and it has built the country's first inland water vessel traffic management system. The public transportation lanes in the central urban area have a total distance of 157.2 km. The proportion of new energy and clean energy buses is now at 100 percent, of which the Gaoming hydrogen energy tramcar project is the first rail transit project in China to use hydrogen fuel cells and the world's first tramcar line to use commercial fuel cells.

A pilot segment of a novel public transport system in the Nanhai district (Guicheng to Sanyan) is being constructed, with a distance of 13.11 km. In addition, a Lishui tramcar project is being planned.