VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE

Provided is a method for performing autonomous travel control of a subject vehicle (V) to a target stop position on the basis of a remote operation command from a remote operation device (28) located outside the vehicle. The subject vehicle has an autonomous travel control function and an automatic locking/unlocking function for a door of the subject vehicle. The autonomous travel control is executed under a precondition that a locking/unlocking device (27) for the door is unlocked. The method includes prohibiting the automatic locking/unlocking function from locking the locking/unlocking device for the door while the vehicle is executing the autonomous travel control; detecting a distance (L) between the vehicle and the remote operation device when the vehicle stops at the target stop position; setting a temporal interval (t) from when the vehicle stops until the locking/unlocking device for the door is locked using the automatic locking/unlocking function to a temporal interval in accordance with the distance; and locking the locking/unlocking device for the door using the automatic locking/unlocking function when the temporal interval has elapsed.