ROUTE ARBITRATION APPARATUS, AUTOMATIC DRIVING CONTROLLER, AND AUTOMATIC DRIVING AND ROUTE ARBITRATION SYSTEM

To provide a route arbitration apparatus, an automatic driving controller, and an automatic driving and route arbitration system which can avoid an overlapping between travel routes and make vehicles carry out a traveling operation smoothly while considering priority between vehicles, in a broad perspective, about a multiple of vehicles existing in a periphery. A route arbitration apparatus receives a target travel route from each vehicle; when it is determined that a mutual overlapping of the target travel routes occurs, determines a priority travel area which is an area where the highest priority vehicle can travel in accordance with the target travel route, transmits the priority travel area to the highest priority vehicle, determines an avoidance travel area which is an area where the low priority vehicle can travel while avoiding the priority travel area, and transmits the avoidance travel area to the low priority vehicle.