JPH0714044A - Fee receiving system for toll road - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the fee receiving system for toll road where the balance is easily replenished for a machine on a vehicle, which cannot be separated from the vehicle, without using a prepaid card. CONSTITUTION:A terminal 1 where an application to replenish the balance for a machine 5 on the vehicle is registered and a center computer 2 which transfers a processing request (a) for replenishment of a certain balance for the specific registered machine 5 on the vehicle from the terminal 1 to machines 3 and 4 on the road are provided, and machines 3 and 4 on the road confirm the update number to replenish the balance for the machine 5 on the vehicle in response to the processing request (a) by radio communication.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a toll collection system for toll roads.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a toll road toll collection system, a toll collector directly receives cash from a driver at a tollgate, or a method in which a driver puts cash into an automatic machine to automatically receive a toll. Has been adopted. Therefore,
The driver had to stop at the toll booth and prepare cash.

On the other hand, as a toll collection system in the near future that does not require delivery of tolls at a tollgate, a vehicle-mounted device such as a contactless IC card that records ID information and can wirelessly communicate with the outside is used. Systems have been developed. For example, FIG. 2 shows an example thereof. In the figure, 01 is a vehicle detection device, 02 is a toll collection device, 03 is a vehicle, 04 is an in-vehicle device, 05 is a start detection device, 06 is a data processing device, 0
11 is a road machine.

The vehicle detection device 01 is composed of vehicle separators 08 and 09 for separating the vehicles 03 for each one, and an axis number detector 010 for detecting the number of axes of the vehicle 03. The vehicle detection device 01 is a vehicle 03 that is passed by the vehicle separators 08 and 09.
Is detected separately for each vehicle, and at the same time, the number of axes of the vehicle 03 is detected by the number of axes detector 010 and a detection signal is sent to the fee collection device 02.

The roadside machine 011 is provided with a card antenna 012, and the card antenna 012 receives radio waves from the vehicle-mounted machine 04 of the vehicle 03. On-board unit 011 for on-road unit 011
The ID information recorded in 4 is read, and the fee collection device 02
The data of the vehicle-mounted device 04 is transmitted to.

[0006] The fee collection device 02 comprises a booth collection machine 013 and a receipt issuing machine 014. By pressing a push button for each vehicle type provided on the booth collection machine 013, a receipt is issued from the receipt issuing machine 014. To do. Start detection device 05
Is a vehicle separator 015, 01 for detecting passage of the vehicle 03.
6 and an axis number detector 017 for detecting the number of axes of the vehicle 03. The start detection device 05 detects the completion of the start of the passing vehicle 03 and returns the system to the original state.

The data processing device 06 aggregates and records the processing data of the vehicle-mounted device 04 and the processing data processed by the booth collection device 013. The charge indicator 018 displays the charge amount of the vehicle processed by the booth collection machine 013, and displays the balance after the use of the prepaid card used by the vehicle-mounted device 04 and the remaining number of times.

The start guide signal light 019 informs the vehicle 04 carrying the vehicle-mounted device 04 whether or not the vehicle can pass. The start warning light 020 gives a warning to the vehicle 03 carrying the vehicle-mounted device 04 at the time of card reading failure. The surveillance television camera 021 is for photographing the vehicle 03 when the card reading is defective.

[0009]

In the toll road toll collection system described above, it is considered to use a prepaid system in which a predetermined balance amount is set in advance in the in-vehicle device and the toll is subtracted from the balance amount. Has been. The prepaid method has an advantage that the billing process can be easily performed, as compared with the postpaid method which requires comparison with a blacklist or the like to ensure security.

However, in the prepaid system, when the balance of the vehicle-mounted device is insufficient, it becomes necessary to supplement the balance. As a method of satisfying this request, a prepaid card with a recorded balance is created, and a reading device for reading the prepaid card is installed in the in-vehicle device, and the in-vehicle device reads the prepaid card as necessary to replenish the balance. There is a way. However, this method requires a reading device in the vehicle-mounted device, which causes a cost increase and a size increase.

As another method, it is conceivable to provide a facility for updating the balance with respect to the vehicle-mounted device and remove the vehicle-mounted device from the vehicle at the facility to replenish the balance. There is a risk that fraud will occur due to the separation of. Furthermore, as another method, a method is provided in which a facility for updating the balance is provided for the in-vehicle device, a vehicle equipped with the in-vehicle device is transported to the facility, and the balance is directly replenished to the in-vehicle device, This method has a drawback that it takes time and effort to transport the vehicle-mounted device together with the vehicle to a specific facility when the balance is insufficient.

[0012] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned prior art, and for an in-vehicle device that cannot be separated from the vehicle, the toll road charge can be simply supplemented without using a prepaid card. The purpose is to provide a collection system.

[0013]

The structure of the present invention which achieves such an object is mounted on a vehicle, has an on-board unit having a memory for storing ID information, is equipped with a wireless communication means, and an entrance / exit of a toll road. In a toll road toll collection system having a roadside device that receives ID information from the vehicle-mounted device and transmits billing information to the vehicle-mounted device, a terminal that registers an application for supplementing the balance to the vehicle-mounted device, A center computer for transferring a processing request for replenishing a certain balance for a specific on-board unit registered from a terminal to each on-road unit is provided, and the on-road unit confirms an update number and wirelessly communicates to the on-board unit by the processing request. The feature is that the balance is replenished by communication.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is an online terminal, 2 is a center computer, 3 and 4 are roadside machines, and 5 is a vehicle-mounted machine.

The online terminal 1 registers, in the center computer 3, a processing request a for replenishing the balance of an in-vehicle device of a certain vehicle according to a user application. At the time of application, it is not necessary to bring an in-vehicle device, and it is only necessary to specify the vehicle-specific ID information and the amount of money so that the vehicle can be specified. The center computer 2 transfers the processing request a, which is registered from the online terminal 1, to the vehicle-mounted device of a specific vehicle to replenish the balance to all the road devices 3, 4. The processing request a includes vehicle-specific ID information, an amount of money, and an update number.

The roadside machines 3 and 4 receive and store the processing request a, communicate with the onboard machine 5, and if the vehicle ID information matches, it is stored in the memory of the onboard machine 5. It collates with the update information b. Here, the update information b of the vehicle-mounted device 5
When the update number of the processing request a is newer than that, the processing request a is updated and the balance is replenished. The update of the balance and the amount thereof are displayed on a display unit (not shown) provided in the vehicle-mounted device 5. At the same time, the roadside device 4 charges the vehicle-mounted device 5 as usual.

After the update of the processing request a is completed, the roadside machine 4 transfers the update completion data to the center computer 2, and the center computer 2 deletes the processing request a as completion, and at the same time, for each of the roadside machines 3 and 4. Then, the processing request a is completed and notifies that it should be deleted. Upon receiving this, the roadside machine 3 deletes the processing request a. Therefore, when the vehicle equipped with the vehicle-mounted device 5 passes through the on-road device 3, the balance is not replenished twice. Even if the vehicle equipped with the vehicle-mounted device 5 passes through the roadside device 3 before the roadside device 3 receives the message that the processing request a should be deleted, the roadside device 3 transmits the processing request a and the vehicle-mounted device 5. The update information a of the machine 5 is collated, and if they match, it means that the replenishment has already been completed and the renewal is stopped. Therefore, the balance is not replenished twice. Therefore, the roadside device 3 performs only the charging process as usual.

In the present embodiment having the above-mentioned configuration, since the replenishment of the balance can be registered at the online terminal 1 by the unique ID information for identifying the vehicle, the user can bring the vehicle-mounted device to the online terminal 1. There is no need to do it. In particular, in the case of a fixed type in-vehicle device that cannot be separated from the vehicle, it is particularly convenient because it is not necessary to bring it with the vehicle. Also,
Since the processing request a for replenishing the balance is transferred to the roadside machines 3 and 4 via the online terminal 1 and the center computer 2, when the vehicle passes the roadside machines 3 and 4, the balance of the balance of the vehicle-mounted device 5 is Can be replenished.

The center computer 2 supports each roadside machine that the processing request a should be deleted immediately after the completion of the processing request a, and each of the roadside machines 3 and 4 receives the processing request a and the vehicle-mounted device 5. If the renewal information and the renewal information are matched, it is considered that the replenishment has already been completed, and the renewal is stopped. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an accident such as double replenishment of the balance.

[0020]

As described above in detail with reference to the embodiments, by registering a request for balance replenishment processing in the terminal, when passing each road machine via the center computer, It is possible to replenish the balance of the vehicle-mounted device. Therefore, it is not necessary to bring the vehicle-mounted device to the terminal, which is convenient in the case of a fixed vehicle-mounted device that cannot be separated from the vehicle.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a toll road toll collection system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of a conventional toll road toll collection system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Online terminal 2 Center computer 3,4 Roadside equipment 5 In-vehicle equipment

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle, having a memory for storing ID information, equipped with a wireless communication means, and receiving the ID information from the in-vehicle device at the entrance of a toll road, In a toll road toll collection system having a roadside device that transmits billing information, a terminal for registering an application for replenishing the balance to the in-vehicle device and a certain balance for the specific in-vehicle device registered from the terminal are replenished A center computer for transferring a processing request to each roadside device, the roadside device confirms an update number, and replenishes the balance by wireless communication to the vehicle-mounted device according to the processing request. Toll collection system.