Drive control apparatus for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling the same

A drive control apparatus mounted to a hybrid electric vehicle that employs an engine and a motor as a running power source, wherein the drive control apparatus performs drive control of the engine and the motor based on a control index, the drive control apparatus comprising:

• information storing means for collecting first information and second information at predetermined intervals while the vehicle runs and for storing the collected first and second information in a storage device, the first information being used for defining the control index, the second information being used for extracting a schedule effective section from a route from an origin to a destination, in which effective section certain fuel efficiency improvement is obtainable by defining a schedule of the control index and by performing the drive control of the engine and the motor based on the defined schedule;
• schedule effective section extracting means for extracting the schedule effective section from the route based on the second information stored in the storage device;
• control index storage controlling means for defining the schedule of the control index of each of a plurality of predetermined sections within the schedule effective section based on the first information stored in the storage device such that fuel consumption of the engine is reduced in the schedule effective section, wherein the control index storage controlling means controls the storage device to store the defined schedule of the control index;
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• assist control process means for performing the drive control based on the schedule of the control index stored in the storage device.