Patent ID: 8301341

Claim:
A travel control device which controls at least acceleration/deceleration of a vehicle, the travel control device comprising: acceleration/deceleration characteristic setting means for setting the range of an accelerator operation amount or a brake operation amount corresponding to a target acceleration/deceleration greater than the range of an accelerator operation amount or a brake operation amount corresponding to an acceleration/deceleration other than the target acceleration/deceleration; and a basic map which defines the relationship between the accelerator operation amount and the acceleration/deceleration corresponding to the accelerator operation amount and the relationship between the brake operation amount and the acceleration/deceleration corresponding to the brake operation amount, wherein the acceleration/deceleration characteristic setting means sets the range of the accelerator operation amount or the brake operation amount corresponding to the acceleration/deceleration for achieving the target acceleration/deceleration greater than the basic map and generates an acceleration/deceleration characteristic map which intersects the basic map at least at a maximum deceleration to a maximum brake operation point.