Abstract:Small and medium-sized cities with rapid economic development are facing the problems of rapid expansion of urbanization area, continuous growth of car ownership, increasingly serious situation of road congestion and so on. There is an urgent need to plan the expressway network in advance. Taking Qidong City of Jiangsu Province as an example, the traffic status and planning of Qidong City are analyzed, and the planning experience of urban expressway network at home and abroad are summarized from the layout, function and scale of expressway network. On this basis, the scale and objectives of the expressway network planning for Qidong are systematically introduced, and two schemes of expressway network planning layout are compared and analyzed. Finally, by comprehensively considering the external radiation and agglomeration effect of the expressway network on the main urban functional area, the service function of the urban core area and the feasibility of the project, the layout scheme of the expressway network is selected and determined, and the specific road network structure is introduced.