Patent ID: 8401757

Claim:
A running control apparatus, comprising: a control-required driving or braking force calculating unit that calculates a control-required driving force or a control-required braking force, required to control a vehicle to a target running state, from a running resistance caused by the vehicle such that the driving or braking force contains a feed-forward component required to run the vehicle at the target running state against the running resistance; a driver-required braking force calculating unit that calculates a driver-required braking force of the vehicle required by a braking operation which is performed by a driver of the vehicle; and a running control unit that performs a running control for the vehicle so as to run the vehicle by the control-required driving or braking force calculated by the control-required driving or braking force calculating unit; wherein the running control unit stops the running control, when the driver-required braking force caused by the driver's braking operation becomes higher than the control-required braking force, judges the braking operation being released when the driver-required braking force caused by the driver's braking operation becomes lower than a braking operation release judging threshold, and restarts the running control so as to run the vehicle by the control-required driving or braking force including a running resistance at the time of restarting, when the driver-required braking force caused by the driver's braking operation becomes lower than the control-required braking force or the braking operation release judging threshold.