The invention belongs to the technical field of mobile communication, and discloses a switching method based on IEEE80211p in a VANET. The method comprises the steps of firstly, only considering the RSSI of an RSU to decide whether switching is carried out or not, and dividing the switching into hard switching and soft switching; then in the soft switching, conducting analysis through a Stackelberg game to decide whether a vehicle is switched or not; finally, after a first application of the vehicle for switching fails, conducting a repeated application for switching through a BEB, and completing the switching by applying a game method again. According the method, the switching situation of the vehicle in the overlapping region of the RSU under the real environment can be simulated, the vehicle can select the right time slice to conduct the switching, the probability of congestion of the switching is reduced, the delivery rate of the network is improved, the vehicle can obtain better handling capacity, the whole performance of a VANET subnet is improved, and the user experience degree is improved.