A vehicle travel control apparatus includes a sensor (16) that obtains preceding vehicle information representing a status of a first preceding vehicle; a communication apparatus (18) that obtains preceding vehicle acceleration/deceleration information, which is generated in a second preceding vehicle, via communication with the second preceding vehicle; and a controller (10) that generates a first target value related to a target acceleration/deceleration value of a host vehicle based on the preceding vehicle information and a second target value related to the target acceleration/deceleration value of the host vehicle based on the preceding vehicle acceleration/deceleration information, and controls acceleration/deceleration of the host vehicle based on the generated first and second target values, wherein the controller (10) corrects the preceding vehicle acceleration/deceleration information according to an index value to generate the second target value, the index value representing an identity between the first and the second preceding vehicles.