“十分珍惜、合理使用土地和切实保护耕地”是我国的基本国策。确保在高速公路发展的前提下,实现耕地资源的节约利用、服务区优化设计,具有很重要的现实意义。根据我国高速公路服务区的发展现状、特点及未来趋势,从技术上探讨了高速公路服务区建设用地节约利用的内涵和优化设计的基本理论。 “Treasure, rational use of land and effective protection of arable land ” is China’s basic national policy. To ensure the development of the highway under the premise of achieving the conservation and utilization of cultivated land resources, service area optimization design, has very important practical significance. According to the development status, characteristics and future trends of the expressway service area in our country, the connotation of the economical use of the construction land in the expressway service area and the basic theory of the optimal design are discussed technically.