Abstract: As a cultural symbol, highway has is a complex which has its structure and comprises the material culture, system culture and spiritual culture. Highway culture has the direct symbolic features and relative stability, and it provides a new theory and practice perspective of modern road planning and construction, maintenance, operation, service and management. Symbolic highway culture needs to consider the relationship between culture and highway. In practice, the level of functionality and diversity of the highway culture symbol need to be seriously examined, and the will of the people with the ethnic and regional characteristics be combined, and at the same time the factors of traditional culture into modern civilization should be integrated in order to realize the human nature characteristic of modern highway.

Key words: highway culture, cultural structure, symbol, symbolization

摘要： 公路作为一种文化符号形态，具有自身的结构形式，是物质文化、制度文化和精神文化的复合体。公路文化具有功能直接性与相对稳定性等符号特征，挖掘公路文化的符号特征，给现代公路规划、建设、养护、经营、服务和管理提供了一个新的理论和实践视角。公路文化的符号化与文化的公路相关性有关，实践中需认真审视公路文化符号的功能层次性与多样性，结合大众的意愿与地域及民族特色，同时要将传统文化因子与现代文明有效地结合起来，以真正实现现代公路的人文自然特色。

关键词: 公路文化, 文化结构, 符号, 符号化