It is a useful method for solving the urban traffic problems by optimizing the public traffic network and effectively using the traffic source. After studing the main content, principle, objective and restriction condition of the public traffic network optimization, and considering the passengers travel time, public traffic network density, public traffic cooperation benefit and the entire city transportation system affected by the public traffic network arrangement, authors have set up the function formula of the optimization objective, restriction conditions formula, linear model of the public traffic network optimization and have used step by step filter method to solve the mathematical model.