To provide a carriage driving device allowing simplification of the whole structure, even if floors having carriage transferring and traveling directions between an elevating conveying base and each floor orthogonal to each other coexist, in elevating conveying equipment for conveying a conveyed object by supporting the conveyed object by the carriage between a plurality of floors having different heights.

This elevating conveying equipment includes the elevating conveying base 5 capable of stopping at each floor, a master carriage 12 supported by the elevating conveying base 5 and a slave carriage 13 supported by the master carriage 12. Of each floor, some floors include master carriage transferring work places 9 and 10, and some floors include slave carriage transferring work places 11. The elevating conveying equipment includes master carriage driving means 39, 40 and 67 for transferring and traveling the master carriage 12 in a supporting state of the slave carriage 13 in a master carriage traveling direction X between the elevating conveying base 5 and the master carriage transferring work places 9 and 10, and slave carriage driving means 20 and 79 for transferring and traveling only the slave carriage 13 supported by the master carriage 12 on the elevating conveying base 5 in a slave carriage traveling direction Y between the elevating conveying base 5 and the slave carriage transferring work place 11.