Vehicles or pedestrians tracking is an im-portant task in intelligent transportation system.In this paper,we propose an online multi-object tracking for in-telligent traffic platform that employs improved sparse representation and structural constraint.We first build the spatial-temporal constraint via the geometric rela-tions and appearance of tracked objects,then we con-struct a robust appearance model by incorporating the discriminative sparse representation with weight con-straint and local sparse appearance with occlusion analys-is.Finally,we complete data association by using maxim-um a posteriori in a Bayesian framework in the pursuit for the optimal detection estimation.Experimental res-ults in two challenging vehicle tracking benchmark data-sets show that the proposed method has a good tracking performance.