Patent ID: 6908413

Claim:
A driving control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising an engine which generates power by fuel combustion; a transmission which achieves plural speeds, gear ratios of which are different from each other, by changing engagement/disengagement states of plural frictional engagement devices including a high speed side frictional engagement device and a low speed side frictional engagement device; a fuel cut control device which performs fuel cut in which fuel supply to the engine is stopped when a predetermined fuel cut condition including a condition that the vehicle is coasting is satisfied; a transmission control device which performs control for disengaging the high speed side frictional engagement device and applying an amount of torque to the low speed side frictional engagement device such that an engine speed is increased when downshifting of the transmission is automatically performed at a coasting time; and a low speed side torque control device which stops the control of torque of the low speed side frictional engagement device by the transmission control device so as to reduce the amount of torque of the low speed side frictional engagement device when the fuel cut by the fuel cut control device is cancelled and the fuel supply is restarted in a case where a signal for downshifting of the transmission is output while fuel supply is stopped by the fuel cut control device at the coasting time, and then the engine speed is being increased due to the control of torque of the low speed side frictional engagement device by the transmission control device.