DE4311989A1 - Toll system for uniform charge collection on toll sections belonging to different operators - Google Patents

Abstract

Toll system for uniform charge collection on toll sections belonging to different operators, the charge levying taking place by communication between a toll-section station and a toll device carried in each vehicle as a result of the cancellation of toll-payment units acquired before the road subject to a toll charge is used, is characterised in that, when a vehicle drives onto a road subject to a toll charge, an operator identification code for the following toll section is communicated to the vehicle drivers, in that valid toll-payment units are made available to the toll device of the vehicle for the following toll section, in that the toll device of the vehicle checks, at least once before the charge collection, the existence and validity of the payment units made available for this section, in that a communication is issued to the vehicle driver if payment units are absent or are invalid for the section, and in that, before the exit, there is an operator-related toll-section station for charge collection which automatically executes the charge collection at the toll-section station for the preceding toll section.

Description

The present invention relates to a toll system uniform collection of fees to different operators belonging, toll routes, the toll automatically, without Interruption of travel, mileage, time, location and traffic should be related to revenue.

Island solutions in which the operators are known are known use different techniques. In the patent DE 38 33 716 a solution is presented which, when using this Device with different operators Could allow toll collection. The main disadvantage of this The solution is to collect fees from your bank account. With this Fee collection is the anonymity of those who pay a fee vehicles no longer in use, the move-in is simply solved for the individual operator has been.

Another disadvantage of this process is the high regi Strier effort that no longer with high traffic is to be mastered. Solutions are also known which Make debit cards. Examples of this are the writings DE 42 35 231.2 and DE 41 07 803. At These solutions became the problem of the application of these Solutions for different operators not considered.

The invention has for its object a toll system indicate that is able to provide a uniform fee collection of tolls belonging to various operators route stations while maintaining anonymity and with minimal registration effort thanks to uniform technology realize.

According to the invention, this object is achieved through the features of Claims resolved. Advantageous configurations are the See subclaims.

Other than known, with the help of the invention Toll systems on tolls belonging to different operators route stations after a unified fee principle of collection with uniform technology  Deletion of toll payment units are charged, whereby every operator of a toll road station really canceled payment units on its toll road sta tion will be charged.

The toll road station of every operator and everyone while driving Toll device of a vehicle to be carried ten following the same fee collection principle.

Every driver receives his vehicle when he drives up Knowledge of the operator of the following toll route. This can be done on the one hand via traffic signs, on the other hand via an acoustic or visual display of his in the vehicle carried toll facility. With this informa tion, the driver selects z. B. for this toll road no valid toll payment card. The driver's toll facility stuff registers the insertion of a toll payment card and checks their validity. If a wrong identifier or missing payment units are determined, this will be also signaled to the driver. The change a toll payment card is signaled by a initiates new operator identification.

Claims (6)

1. toll system for uniformly charge collection to, ver different operators belonging to, toll roads, wherein the charging station by communication between toll roads and one carried on each vehicle Mautein direction by deleting, before using the toll paid infrastructure which acquired toll payment units it follows, characterized in that that at driveway of a driving tool on a toll infrastructure the drivers an operator identifier for the next toll road is informed that the toll apparatus of the vehicle are provided for the following toll road valid toll payment units that the toll apparatus of the vehicle at least once the front of the fee collection The presence and the validity of the payment units made available for this section of the route checks that, in the case of non-existent or invalid payment units for the route section, a notification for the vehicle driver is given that before departure there is an operator-related toll road station for collecting the toll, which automatically carries out the toll collection at the toll road station for the previous toll route. 2. Toll system according to claim 1, characterized in that the notification of the operator identification via the toll facility tion of the vehicle. 3. Toll system according to claim 1, characterized in that the notification of the operator identification via traffic signs to the Vehicle drivers are displayed. 4. Toll system according to claim 1, characterized in that the driver of the toll payment units via a for valid toll payment card is available on the toll route poses.   5. Toll system according to claims 1 and 4, characterized records that the toll device of the vehicle the Gül checks the activity of the toll payment card. 6. Toll system according to claim 1, characterized in that the toll facility of the vehicle with the receipt of the loading driver identification in the operator-related toll payment table len contained toll payment units of a direct debit provides.