The invention provides a method for sorting passenger vehicles and goods vehicles based on videos. The method uses LED lamp bands as an auxiliary, and is based on the theory of specular reflection of car window glass, according to outstanding features that the window number of a goods vehicle and the window number of a passenger vehicle are different, through the algorithms of vehicle tracking, binarization processing, banded target detecting and the like, the method obtains the reflected images of the target LED lamp bands in a video sequence, achieves detection and identification of whether car window glass exists, judges whether enough car window glass exists, therefore real-time and reliable division on the types of large and medium passenger vehicles and the goods vehicles is carried out, and due to the fact that the technology carries out detection through a non-contact mode, the failure rate is low. Special passageways do not need to be arranged for the passenger vehicles and the goods vehicles, the utilizing rate of limited space is improved greatly, traffic will not be blocked when mounting and maintenance are carried out, and the method for sorting the passenger vehicles and the goods vehicles based on the videos has wide application prospect in highway tolling systems.