The invention discloses an acoustic design method for road noise barrier, which comprises the steps of: 1) importing a vector diagram with a Cad format for characterizing the terrains of noise barrier or grid maps with formats such as jpg, bmp, tif, and the like; 2) calibrating the imported graph to achieve the consistence of graphic proportion and actual proportion; 3) combining the actual situation to draw entities such as roads, terrains, houses, forests, grasslands, and the like based on the importing of the graph, and adopting a batch conversion function to finishing the basic work of acoustic modeling by adopting a batch conversion function if the graph is a Cad graph; 4) setting a noise prediction point at a protected sensitive point, calculating a noise value when no barrier exists, and determining an noise-reducing index of the barrier; 5) simulating the noise barrier, adjusting the height and the length of the barrier, and preliminarily calculating a geometrical dimension of the barrier which meets the requirement; and 6) re-calculating the noise-reducing effect of the barrier by combining the geometrical dimension of the sound barrier and simulating the barriers with different structures and sound absorption coefficients until the combination of the geometrical dimension, the structure and the sound absorption coefficient of the sound barrier which meets the requirement is calculated.