VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

Provided is a vehicle drive control device capable of appropriately determining a signal state of a traffic signal and, in a case where there is a collision possibility with another object, suitably determining a warning to an own vehicle driver and/or vehicle control of the own vehicle in consideration of a signal information determination result. A vehicle drive control device includes a signal state determination unit that acquires, a plurality of times over a predetermined time, signal recognition information recognized by a signal information recognition unit and determines a state of a signal based on the acquired signal recognition information, and a collision determination unit that determines a possibility of collision between an own vehicle and an other vehicle based on information on the other vehicle around the own vehicle recognized by an other vehicle recognition unit . When determining that there is a possibility of collision between the own vehicle and the other vehicle , the collision determination unit performs a warning to the driver of the own vehicle and/or vehicle control of the own vehicle based on a signal state determination result of the signal state determination unit