With the continuous acceleration of urbanization, people's travel needs continue to increase, and the contradiction between highway infrastructure construction and the protection of basic farmland, ecological environment and other resources has become more prominent. Ecological environment and territorial space planning and protection have put forward new requirements for highway transportation construction, and the development mode of highway transportation construction needs to be further changed. It is required that highway engineering survey and design pay more attention to environmental protection and resource conservation, pay attention to reducing the cost of the whole life cycle of the project, reduce the impact of the construction scheme on the environment, do a good job in the intensive and economical use of resources, and realize the high-quality development of less investment in production factors, high resource allocation efficiency, low resource and environmental cost, and good social benefits. High quality highway engineering survey and design is not only helpful to improve the technical level of highway construction and guarantee the quality of facilities, but also can provide support for high quality service and management of highway engineering. Therefore, constantly improving the quality of highway engineering survey and design is the realistic need of highway engineering high-quality development.