Patent ID: 8583343

Claim:
A vehicle drive control apparatus for use in a vehicle that uses at least a motor as a driving power source that is under control of a determined schedule of a control index, the vehicle drive control apparatus comprising: a travel number counter for counting a number of travels of a road section in a travel route of the vehicle and for storing a number of travels of the road section by the vehicle in a storage for each of travel directions of the road section; a section extraction unit for extracting, for each of travel directions of the road section, the road section that is traveled for over-a-threshold times based on the stored number of travels of the road section in the storage; a section map memory for storing, as a section map, a series of road sections extracted by the section extraction unit in the storage; a scheduler for defining a schedule of the control index for each of the series of road sections specified by the section map; a section series identifying unit for identifying a specific series of road sections as high-probability road sections that are highly probably traveled by the vehicle when the vehicle is determined to have entered the specific series of road sections specified by the section map; and a drive control unit for performing control of the driving power source of the vehicle for the specific series of road sections identified by the section series identifying unit according to the schedule of the control index defined by the scheduler.