Overhead transmission line and cable are generally used for across or crossing the railway, highways and rivers.For higher deformation requirement of operation of the railway and highway foundation settlement,to ensure that the cable through the process of foundation in regulating the allowable range, calculation and prediction of foundation settlement is specially necessary.Based on the Peck theory, the dominant factor in foundation settlement-strata loss calculation method is introduced supplemented with measured settlement observation records in this paper,which confirmes that the calculation results are replicab in engineering practice.