Vehicle control device

A vehicle control device in a vehicle including an engine and a multi-speed transmission having a plurality of gear positions, each gear position out of the plurality of gear positions established by engaging predetermined engagement devices out of a plurality of engagement devices, the vehicle control device including a shift control portion configured to control release of a release-side engagement device of the plurality of engagement devices and engagement of an engagement-side engagement device of the plurality of engagement devices so as to switch the gear position established in the multi-speed transmission, and an engine control portion configured to provide idling-reduction control of temporarily stopping the operation of the engine based on a predetermined engine stop condition, the vehicle control device comprising:

• a racing amount calculating portion configured to calculate, during a coast downshift in which an input rotation speed during a shift transition of the multi-speed transmission is equal to or less than an idle rotation speed of the engine, an integrated value of a racing amount of the input rotation speed that is an excess amount of the input rotation speed over a synchronous rotation speed after the coast downshift;
• and
• a learning control portion configured to obtain and learn a correction amount for an instruction pressure of the engagement-side engagement device to be engaged during the coast downshift by using the integrated value of the racing amount so as to correct the instruction pressure of the engagement-side engagement device,
• if the idling-reduction control is started during the coast downshift, the racing amount calculating portion being configured to keep the integrated value of the racing amount at a value at the start time point of the idling-reduction control.