VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

This vehicle control device is provided with: an external sensor which detects a vehicle stop position present ahead of a host vehicle in the travel direction; and a remaining distance calculation unit which calculates the remaining distance to the detected vehicle stop position from the host vehicle. The vehicle control device further provided with a medium-term trajectory generation unit and a short-term trajectory generation unit which use a predefined setting method to set a target speed for decelerating the host vehicle in accordance with the calculated remaining distance.