The invention provides a route element managing method. The method includes the steps that after receiving a route command of a certain route, a vehicle-mounted controller obtains a target controller corresponding to the certain route, and the request for inquiring state information of the route element on the certain route is sent to the target controller; the vehicle-mounted controller controls the route element to move through the target controller according to the state information, returned by the target controller, of the route element. Traditional ground equipment is reduced, line construction cost is reduced, and maintenance is convenient; a complex subsystem interface relation is simplified into a simple interface relation like vehicle-mounted route element, so that development difficulty caused by version difference and interface difference is reduced, and system reliability is improved.