The invention relates to a method for transferring control authority of an urban rail traffic comprehensive monitoring system. The method comprises the following steps: selecting equipment or a systemfor performing control authority transfer; issuing a control authority transfer command by a control authority transfer initiator; and processing the received control authority transfer command by acontrol authority transfer receiver. The control authority of the equipment or system for performing control authority transfer is transferred to one piece of control equipment, which is the control authority transfer initiator or the control authority transfer receiver, so that the control disorder and equipment or system failure condition caused by the fact that the same equipment or the equipment in the associated same system is controlled by the two pieces of control equipment is avoided, so that the rights and liabilities of management and dispatching departments at all levels of rail transit operation are distinguished, the authorities such as reading, writing and control of each piece of equipment data are reasonably distributed, the authority of each user is managed correspondingly, and safe and reliable operation of various kinds of equipment in the system is guaranteed.