The invention provides a manual routing method applied to rail transit, and is aimed at solving the deficiency in the prior art that the operation is complicated. The manual routing method applied torail transit comprises the following steps of: responding to a first operation and generating a routing instruction according to destination information; and completing the routing according to the routing instruction. According to the scheme, the driving direction of the required manual routing does not need to be considered before a turnout area; an initial end annunciator and a terminal annunciator do not need to be clicked; a driver only needs to click a routing button to trigger the routing instruction; and a system responds to the first operation, gives the optimal routing plan by calculation according to the destination information, meanwhile generates the routing instruction and then performs the routing operation. The scheme simplifies the operation process and realizes the purpose of completing the routing work by one-key operation.