Control system for vehicle

A control system for a vehicle having a prime mover, drive wheels, and a transmission that can establish at least three gear stages to transmit torque between the prime mover and the drive wheels, comprising:

• a controller that controls a shifting operation of the transmission,
• wherein the controller is configured to:
• set a target stage of the shifting operation based on an accelerator opening and a vehicle speed increased by an accelerating operation of a driver,
• execute a downshifting from a current stage to the target stage that is set to a gear stage lower than the current stage, in response to the accelerating operation,
• compare an evaluation of a skip shifting to shift the gear stage directly to the target stage that is set to at least two stages lower than the current gear stage, to an evaluation of a stepwise shifting to shift the gear stage stepwise to the target stage, when executing the downshifting, based on an evaluation index calculated in advance in accordance with an operating condition of an accelerator, the evaluation index being calculated based on an unconscious period from a point at which a changing factor of an acceleration occurs to a point at which the driver starts sensing a change in the acceleration and stimulation intensity obtained based on a change amount of an acceleration immediately after the unconscious period and a derivative the acceleration with respect to time, and
• select the downshifting operation to be executed from the stepwise shifting and the skip shifting whose evaluation is higher than the other one.