The invention belongs to the technical field of intelligent transportation systems, and relates to a public transportation equipment matching method. The public transportation equipment matching method comprises the specific steps that (1) the card sweeping equipment number, the line number, the line name, the card number, the transaction date and the transaction time of passenger card sweeping are collected; (2) public transportation arrival and departure historical data, the GPS equipment number, the line number, the line name, the stopping station, the arrival time and the departure time are collected; (3) matching candidate sets are generated; (4) time distribution similarity is calculated; and (5) correlation results can be obtained through the step (3) and the step (4), it can be known that card sweeping equipment p and GPS equipment q belong to the same vehicle through the data of one day, in order to avoid accidentality, the card sweeping equipment number and the GPS equipmentnumber of the same vehicle must be correlated in the data in multiple days, the data of all days are used in cooperation, the mode of the equipment matching results is obtained, and the correspondingrelationship between the card sweeping equipment and the GPS equipment can be obtained. The public transportation equipment matching method is ingenious in design concept, the application environmentis friendly, and the market prospect is broad.