VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL APPARATUS

A vehicle travel control apparatus includes an outside recognition device, a traveling environment recognition section, a steering control unit, and an engine control unit. The outside recognition device acquires traveling-environment image data that is image data of a traveling environment in front of an own vehicle that is applied with the apparatus. The traveling environment recognition section performs, on the basis of the traveling-environment image data, a detection of lane lines each provided between lanes, lighting of a brake lamp of another vehicle, and blinking of a turn signal lamp of the other vehicle. The steering control unit operates a driving source of a steering mechanism provided in the own vehicle. The engine control unit controls the own vehicle to travel along a target traveling course, by controlling the steering control unit on the basis of a result of the detection performed by the traveling environment recognition section.