Abstract:With the development of economy and society in China, the existing expressway tunnels cannot meet the needs of the rapidly growing traffic volume. The reconstruction and expansion of existing tunnels have become an effective means to improve the traffic capacity. Through literature search, the development trends of highway tunnel reconstruction and expansion schemes in China in the past 20 years are sorted out, and the advantages and disadvantages of in-situ expansion, parallel expansion and combined expansion are pointed out. Combined with the indicators of the whole process of highway tunnel reconstruction and expansion, several indicators that have the greatest impact on the selection of schemes are given, and their current research status is introduced. Based on extensive research of typical cases, it is concluded that unilateral expansion is suitable for the most projects, and the recommended solutions are also given for several situations.