With the transportation industry development quickly in recent years, new and higher requirements were put forward to road engineering construction and talent cultivation.Through the analysis of the historical development of road engineering construction as well as the comparison of domestic and foreign relevant professional talents,the present study investigated the domestic colleges and universities and the international first-class universities in the differences of talent training objective and curriculum system. Professional demands with the social development and pavement engineering talents cultivation orientation with the updating of the knowledge system were analyzed. Finally, development tendency and teaching innovation ideas of pavement engineering disciplines were put forward.