(EN) ARTICLE TRANSPORT FACILITY ABSTRACT A travel path includes a primary path and a bypass path including at least fewer stations or 5 fewer path intersecting portions than the primary path per unit distance. A control device selects, using a path cost including a distance cost being higher for a greater distance by which article transport vehicles move and a structure cost being higher for a slower speed at which the article transport vehicles move based on a structure of the travel path, a route having the lowest path cost from multiple candidate routes along which a target vehicle is movable from a 10 departure point to a destination point. The control device adjusts, when a predetermined determination condition is satisfied in selecting the route, the path cost of a candidate route following the bypass path to be lower than a path cost used when the predetermined determination condition is unsatisfied. 15 [Figure 3] 16