Abstract:For Urumqi, the new requirement of "cultivating the Urumqi metropolitan area" is put forward in the new urban development strategy. The present situation of skeleton road network is analyzed. It is found that the road network is beginning to take shape now, but there are problems of the skeleton road network structure not matching the demand for strip corridors, and the insufficient support for the development of urban integration in the metropolitan area. The planning of "two-vertical, two-ring and multi-radiation" express road network in 2017 and the planning of "two-horizontal, two-vertical, five-ring and 15-radiation" skeleton road network latest proposed in 2021 have relevantly supplemented and improved the above problems, but there are still deficiencies. On the basis of analyzing the latest skeleton road network structure, the optimization suggestion is proposed for the local line positions of transverse channel and radial channel in the planned skeleton road network from the actionability and traffic function of the planned skeleton road network.