The invention discloses a ropeway carriage speed control method. The method comprises an acceleration control process and a deceleration control process, wherein the acceleration control process comprises the steps of acquiring initial design speed, operation design speed and acceleration time, and controlling acceleration of a ropeway carriage, thereby completing the ropeway carriage acceleration control process; the deceleration control process comprises the steps of acquiring initial design speed, operation design speed, deceleration time and design distance, computing the deceleration distance of the ropeway carriage, and controlling deceleration of the ropeway carriage, thereby completing the ropeway carriage deceleration process. The ropeway carriage speed control method has the advantages that stable acceleration and deceleration of a ropeway carriage can be guaranteed, and impact, vibration and noise of linear acceleration and deceleration are avoided; deceleration points of a carriage can be computed, a sensor is omitted, and thus the cost is lowered; the method can be directly applied to a traditional ropeway control system, and no extra hardware investment is added; all control is performed by soft ware, and the defects of high fault rate and imprecise control of a traditional control method are avoided.