Abstract:In order to provide the data support for the planning scheme of public transportation system, based on the online payment data, through the steps of data cleansing, removal of the part of data of swiping card for others, judgment of transfer data and determination of alighting station, combined with the statistical method, the characteristics of public transportation, such as sharing ratio, time distribution, distance distribution, distribution of lines and stations, and the situation of public transportation service of specific groups, etc. are obtained. And taking Qingliu County of Sanming City as an example, the adaptability of the data analysis method in the characterization of public transportation is validated.