Abstract:Two typical highway traffic data measured by WIM equipment in China and France are compared, some statistics and analysis works have been conducted. Traffic flow and load properties are compared in a detail way. The results show that: axle weight, gross vehicle weight and traffic volume of France’s are smaller than that of China’s which indicate an obvious increase comparing with the vehicle data that are used for The current bridge criterion (JTG D60-2004). The constitution of daily traffic show a timely change: trucks have a higher proportion during the low tide, but a lower proportion in peak time.Results can be conclude from those data, that a basic hypothesis of vehicle load model for China design code, which is all vehicle lanes are uncorrelated to each other, may not valid. Both China and France data show traffic flow and load properties in different lanes have obvious differences. Base on those research results, it is recommended at the final that site-specific vehicle model is very necessary for some design and assessment work, and also to improve current design load model, different lanes should be considered to have different model, and a loading length depended load-model should be adapt for diversity span bridge regarding the actual extrapolated effect far outweigh code value.