The invention provides the application of the vehicle-mounted laser radar system in the highway reconstruction and expansion survey, comprising the following steps: control survey: carrying out the result coordinate reference design, the foundation control survey and the pavement control point measurement to prepare for the subsequent vehicle-mounted and airborne laser radar data acquisition; andthe vehicle-mounted laser radar system is used for the road reconstruction and expansion survey. Data pre-processing: POS solution, laser processing and coordinate conversion are used to pre-process the obtained data. Point cloud post-processing: through point cloud thinning, noise elimination, filtering classification and the like, after data is classified, vegetation points, noise points and building points are eliminated to obtain accurate ground points, and elevation point data retaining topographic characteristic points are extracted. Compared with the traditional method, the invention collects 100 kilometers of road data every day, and improves the operation efficiency by 5-7 times. The automation degree of indoor software is as high as 80 percent. Due to the improvement of operationefficiency and the decrease of manpower input, the comprehensive cost of indoor software is reduced by 4-5 times.