Management apparatus

A management apparatus comprising a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to receive a request from a plurality of applications as a request regarding an acceleration rate of a vehicle and activate an actuator based on the request, the applications each being configured to output either a lower limit system request that functions as a lower limit value of the acceleration rate or an upper limit system request that functions as an upper limit value of the acceleration rate, wherein the processing circuit is configured to:

• execute arbitration processing including first arbitration processing of selecting a maximum value out of a requested value in the lower limit system request and a requested value of an acceleration rate requested by an operation that requests acceleration by a user of the vehicle as a first arbitration value and second arbitration processing of selecting a minimum value out of a requested value in the upper limit system request, a requested value of an acceleration rate requested by an operation that requests deceleration by the user of the vehicle, and the first arbitration value as a second arbitration value in accordance with reception of a plurality of requests from the applications;
• activate the actuator based on the second arbitration value after the arbitration processing;
• and
• exclude a low-priority request from a target of arbitration in the arbitration processing when the low-priority request is a request realized without control of a brake and not exclude the low-priority request from the target of arbitration in the arbitration processing when the low-priority request is a request realized by controlling the brake, when the plurality of requests include a low-priority request in which a low-priority flag indicating that a priority is lower than another request is set to ON.