AUTOMATIC DRIVING CONTROL METHOD AND AUTOMATIC DRIVING CONTROL SYSTEM

To provide an autonomous driving control method that is capable of guiding a host vehicle so as not to deviate from a line of vehicles that has formed at a toll plaza. An autonomous driving control method carried out by an autonomous driving control system having an autonomous driving control unit that executes an autonomous driving control for causing a host vehicle to travel along a target travel route generated on a map, comprising setting one or a plurality of target passage gates through which the host vehicle is scheduled to pass during passage through a toll plaza (Step S2), determining the presence or absence of a preceding vehicle that has the predicted passage gate that matches the target passage gate of the host vehicle from among a plurality of preceding vehicles (Step S5), and carrying out following travel using the preceding vehicle that has the predicted passage gate that matches the target passage gate as a follow target (Step S6).