Abstract:Based on the finite difference method,a study was made of the convergences and meshing technique for pavement temperature field in different boundary conditions.Also an analysis was made of the feasibility and calculating error for pavement temperature field in a multi-layered system being simplified to a homogeneous semi-infinite body,the error between the first order Taylor approximation of pavement surface temperature,sky effective temperature due to mutual radicalization in pavement surface and sky and actual temperature.The influence of the estimated error for sky effective temperature on pavement temperature field and the dispersing time of initial temperature error were discussed.