The invention discloses a traffic control method. A Lengthways traffic light for controlling passing of vehicles and a transverse traffic light for enabling pedestrians to go across a zebra crossing are disposed at the zebra crossing. The method comprises following steps that each of both ends of the zebra crossing is provided with a group of pressure senor and a timer is disposed; when a pressure signal is sensed all the time with preset time, it is determined that there are pedestrians about to go across the zebra crossing and the lengthways traffic light and the transverse traffic light are switched in a staggered way; if no pedestrian is about to go across the zebra crossing, the lengthways traffic light is in green state all the time and the transverse traffic light is in the red state all the time. The control scheme of the traffic control method can be adjusted according to specific traffic conditions in order to increase the use efficiency of roads.