The invention discloses an automatic recovery and placing vehicle for traffic road cones. The vehicle comprises a vehicle chassis (1), a road cone recovery and placing device (2), a road cone delivery and storage device (3), a road cone transverse pushing mechanism (5), a road cone guiding mechanism (4), an electric device control cabinet (6) and a generator set (7), wherein the road cone recovery and placing device (2) is used for placing and recovering road cones, the road cone delivery and storage device (3) and the road cone transverse pushing mechanism (5) are used for delivering road cones onto the road cone recovery and placing device (2), the road cone guiding mechanism (4) is used for adjusting directions and positions of road cones, and the electric device control cabinet (6) and the generator set (7) serve as a vehicle control and power source. According to the vehicle, both advanced mechanical control technologies and advanced electric control technologies are used to finish automatic recovery and placing of traffic road cones, and the automatic recovery of road cones in a left traffic lane, a right traffic lane and a middle traffic lane can be achieved. During the automatic recovery of road cones, the vehicle moves backwards, and a liquid crystal monitoring screen and vehicle reflectors are used for path positioning. A storage box is hung on a vehicle body and is automatically recovered onto the vehicle chassis under the non-working condition, and the width of the vehicle body is not affected.