A vehicle control device for mounting on a vehicle including a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a vehicle speed, an accelerator opening detecting sensor for detecting an accelerator opening, and braking means capable of adjusting deceleration of the vehicle, characterised in that the control device comprises: a storage unit for storing deceleration tables each including parameters required to acquire a predetermined deceleration to perform deceleration control having a deceleration curve corresponding to vehicle types of an engine car, a battery vehicle and a HST vehicle that are material handling industrial vehicles; and deceleration selecting means (4, 5) for selecting a target deceleration corresponding to a vehicle type by the operation of an operator or a vehicle maintenance worker, wherein vehicle control device is configured so that: if the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor is equal to or less than a preset vehicle speed V 1 and the accelerator opening detected by the accelerator opening detecting sensor is equal to or less than a preset accelerator opening, when the target deceleration corresponding to a vehicle type is selected from the deceleration selecting means (4, 5), the selection of the deceleration is validated, a deceleration table corresponding to the deceleration selected by the deceleration selecting means (4, 5) is read from the storage unit, and the braking means is actuated on the basis of the braking parameters specified in the table, thereby executing deceleration control so as to provide the selected deceleration; and if the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor becomes less than the preset vehicle speed V 2 (0<V 2 <V 1) during execution of the deceleration control, the braking of the braking means is weakened or is brought into a non-actuation state, and the execution of the deceleration control is released. a storage unit for storing deceleration tables each including parameters required to acquire a predetermined deceleration to perform deceleration control having a deceleration curve corresponding to vehicle types of an engine car, a battery vehicle and a HST vehicle that are material handling industrial vehicles; and deceleration selecting means (4, 5) for selecting a target deceleration corresponding to a vehicle type by the operation of an operator or a vehicle maintenance worker, wherein vehicle control device is configured so that: if the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor is equal to or less than a preset vehicle speed V 1 and the accelerator opening detected by the accelerator opening detecting sensor is equal to or less than a preset accelerator opening, when the target deceleration corresponding to a vehicle type is selected from the deceleration selecting means (4, 5), the selection of the deceleration is validated, a deceleration table corresponding to the deceleration selected by the deceleration selecting means (4, 5) is read from the storage unit, and the braking means is actuated on the basis of the braking parameters specified in the table, thereby executing deceleration control so as to provide the selected deceleration; and if the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor becomes less than the preset vehicle speed V 2 (0<V 2 <V 1) during execution of the deceleration control, the braking of the braking means is weakened or is brought into a non-actuation state, and the execution of the deceleration control is released. if the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor is equal to or less than a preset vehicle speed V 1 and the accelerator opening detected by the accelerator opening detecting sensor is equal to or less than a preset accelerator opening, when the target deceleration corresponding to a vehicle type is selected from the deceleration selecting means (4, 5), the selection of the deceleration is validated, a deceleration table corresponding to the deceleration selected by the deceleration selecting means (4, 5) is read from the storage unit, and the braking means is actuated on the basis of the braking parameters specified in the table, thereby executing deceleration control so as to provide the selected deceleration; and if the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor becomes less than the preset vehicle speed V 2 (0<V 2 <V 1) during execution of the deceleration control, the braking of the braking means is weakened or is brought into a non-actuation state, and the execution of the deceleration control is released.