VEHICLE TRAVELING CONTROL APPARATUS

A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a detector that detects an accelerator operation amount by a driver, a determiner that determines, based on a driving condition, whether a driving mode is currently a first mode in which a vehicle is caused to travel autonomously along a target travel path or a second mode in which the driver performs driving operation, a calculator that calculates a continuation time of the first mode when the driving mode is the first mode, a first setting unit that variably sets a characteristic of a target acceleration for the detected accelerator operation amount based on the calculated continuation time, and a second setting unit that, when the driving mode has transitioned from the first mode to the second mode, sets the target acceleration for the detected accelerator operation amount by referring to the set characteristic of the target acceleration for the accelerator operation amount.