1. A road image analyzing apparatus comprising: two image pickup units that photograph the same position from different directions; a continuous component extracting unit that extracts a continuous component from image data obtained by one of the image pickup units; a three-dimensional position calculating unit that combines the continuous component with image data obtained by the other image pickup unit to calculate three-dimensional position information of the continuous component; and an identifying unit that identifies the continuous component on the basis of the three-dimensional position information calculated by the three-dimensional position calculating unit.