EP1203354B2 - Procede pour percevoir des taxes de maniere automatique et dispositif a cet effet - Google Patents

Procede pour percevoir des taxes de maniere automatique et dispositif a cet effet Download PDF

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EP1203354B2
EP1203354B2 EP00958115A EP00958115A EP1203354B2 EP 1203354 B2 EP1203354 B2 EP 1203354B2 EP 00958115 A EP00958115 A EP 00958115A EP 00958115 A EP00958115 A EP 00958115A EP 1203354 B2 EP1203354 B2 EP 1203354B2
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    • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
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  • the invention relates to a method for the automatic collection of fees for the use of road or traffic areas or of a device for the automatic collection of fees according to the preamble of the independent claims. From DE 19 61 57 33 A1, such a method is already known, are processed in the GPS data to determine the fees to be paid. This procedure is limited to roads equipped with beacons.
  • US 5 490 079 A shows a system for automatic toll collection on toll road networks.
  • the localization or tracking of the toll route takes place by means of a GPS positioning system.
  • the use of beacons for billing is suggested as an alternative.
  • the billing takes place at regular intervals by means of a download of the data stored in the on-board computer of the vehicle to a billing center.
  • the method according to the invention or the device according to the invention for carrying out the method with the characterizing features of the independent claims has the advantage of enabling an optimized overall charging system which, for example in metropolitan areas, provides short-range electronic communication such as the MW-DSRC method ("Microwave Dedicated Short Range Communication "method) and on overland routes such as on highways in sparsely populated areas far from the subordinate road network, a long-range communication method, for example using a mobile phone connection, uses, with a position determination of the vehicle, for example by means of GPS.
  • short-range electronic communication such as the MW-DSRC method ("Microwave Dedicated Short Range Communication "method)
  • overland routes such as on highways in sparsely populated areas far from the subordinate road network
  • a long-range communication method for example using a mobile phone connection, uses, with a position determination of the vehicle, for example by means of GPS.
  • the MW-DSRC process requires a complex infrastructure in the form of transmit / receive beacons on the roadside or on bridges; the necessary on-board equipment in the vehicle are relatively cheap; the data transmission between the beacon and the on-board devices costs only electrical energy for the operation of the beacon.
  • a GPS mobile system does not incur additional infrastructure costs if it is to be used for charging.
  • the on-board devices are relatively expensive to manufacture and install; For the data transfer, there are considerable telephone costs.
  • the method according to the invention can now be flexibly adapted to the everyday practice of charging, depending on which type of motor vehicle each is to be charged with fees or which parts of the road network mainly drive these vehicles. This allows minimizing the overall system cost for automatic billing and collection.
  • the device according to the invention makes it possible for a vehicle to conveniently pay fees both on lanes equipped with beacons and on a road subnet consisting of tolled but non-beaten roads. Should a toll vehicle only have a conventional on-board unit that works exclusively according to the MW-DSRC procedure, it may still be possible to purchase single tickets. These individual tickets then allow the owner of a conventional on-board device or a vehicle without on-board device to drive on stretches of the road subnetwork.
  • the method according to the invention is therefore preferable in time to full-scale equipping of the vehicles with the on-board device according to the invention.
  • the beacons are mainly located in urban areas.
  • the detection of toll road sections to which no beacons are mounted can be carried out in an advantageous manner by comparing position on a angeordeten in the vehicle data memory, so that automatically required for charging in this case long-range communication is activated.
  • This combines the advantages of the beacon system and the baccarat charging system in a simple manner.
  • the beacon system in metropolitan areas is advantageous because there are many underpasses and noise barriers, which do not affect the short-range data transmission, but the long-range data transmission, for example by GSM mobile, or can obstruct the position determination by GPS satellite.
  • a beacon system in metropolitan areas makes it possible to clearly differentiate closely adjacent toll-free and toll-free roads; the position determination, for example, by GPS is not reliable enough here, since possibly ambiguous results may arise in the location determination, since the positioning accuracy is reduced as a result of not directly, but only after reflection, especially on buildings received GPS signals; In addition, the military satellite operators artificially create an inaccuracy until further notice.
  • the long-range communication for charging is advantageously used.
  • the beacons required for short-range communication are saved there, and secondly, there is generally no electrical energy available to operate the beacons in such areas. The laying of the required electrical lines would be expensive.
  • the inventive method for heavy trucks can be used, which move almost only in a metropolitan area.
  • the sum of infrastructure onboard equipment and operating costs for the entire system is minimal and the method is quickly introduced, even if not yet installed in all vehicles, the inventive device for automatic charging.
  • FIG. 1 shows a flowchart and Figure 2 shows a vehicle-side fee module.
  • a vehicle is started and a fee module arranged in the vehicle is put into operation.
  • position data of the vehicle for example position data
  • the charge module by a satellite-based GPS (global positioning system) (method step 20).
  • the billing module is ready to communicate with this beacon when passing a beacon on the roadside, for example via a microwave assisted DSRC method. If the journey does not continue (question 30, decision 31), then the method is ended by the vehicle-side charge module is switched off again (step 70). However, if the journey continues (decision 32), it is checked (step 40) whether a beacon is passed or whether a comparison of the position of the vehicle with stored position data shows that you are on a toll road network, but no beacons to Fee collection.
  • step 20 If the comparison is negative and no beacon is detected, the process returns to step 20 (decision 41), otherwise (case 42) in the case of detecting a beacon (case distinction 50, case 51) a short-range electronic communication with the beacon, in particular a communication by microwaves, performed (step 80). After the information exchange with the beacon is returned to step 20. In the case of the presence in the road subnetwork, which is chargeable but has no beacons (case 52), a toll collection is carried out over a long-range communication, for example by GSM mobile radio (method step 60). Subsequently, the process returns to method step 20.
  • the method consists in the combination of two different types of charging, in particular in metropolitan areas, the advantages of the MW-DSRC method come into effect, while on overland routes, for example, a vehicle-mounted CD-ROM memory contains the data of the road subnet, which is chargeable, however has no beacons. In the latter case, charging by mobile radio is then automatically activated by the vehicle device by the vehicle device communicating with a control center of the operator of the charging system.
  • the position determination in method step 20 can optionally also be carried out using position-finding systems other than GPS.
  • vehicle-mounted route detection systems can be arranged which register the respective direction and route of the vehicle and can accordingly determine the current position of the vehicle.
  • a comparison of the current vehicle position data with the correspondingly equipped position memory can be carried out to decide whether one is on a toll route at all, be it a route on which beacons are arranged are, or a stretch of the road subnetwork; If no, branching takes place to 41, otherwise to 42.
  • an expected Bakenabbuchung (Case 51) can also be provided on expected, but not located beacon to send a message via mobile to the control unit or the fee collectors in the Communication with the next beacon, which happens and is recognized to forward information about the previous malfunction, which can then interrogate the fee collectors via corresponding with the control unit in communication passing transceivers of the beacon via mobile phone or automatically receives.
  • queries 40 and 50 shown in FIG. can also be provided on expected, but not located beacon to send a message via mobile to the control unit or the fee collectors in the Communication with the next beacon, which happens and is recognized to forward information about the previous malfunction, which can then interrogate the fee collectors via corresponding with the control unit in communication passing transceivers of the beacon via mobile phone or automatically receives.
  • step 32 it is also initially possible to check after step 32 whether beacon signals can be received; if so, then an offsetting is made in accordance with step 80 and then a return to step 20; if not, then the vehicle position is compared with the stored road data of the road subnetwork and in the case of a toll duty step 60 is performed, then returned to 20. If the comparison with the road subnetwork also turns out to be negative, it returns to 20 immediately.
  • the procedure can also be reversed by first performing a comparison of the position data with the road subnetwork and then, if this is negative, checking whether beacon signals are received.
  • FIG. 2 shows a fee module 200 that can be arranged in a vehicle, referred to for short as "device", with which the method according to FIG. 1 can be carried out.
  • the device 200 has a microwave transponder 5 for carrying out a short-range electronic communication 110a with a beacon 110 arranged on the road side, a GSM mobile radio module 4 for carrying out a long-range electronic communication by mobile phone 100a with the mobile terminal 100 of the operator of the charging system and a GPS Satellite navigation module 6 for receiving 120a signals from GPS satellites 120 on.
  • the units 4, 5 and 6 are connected via connecting lines 4a, 5a and 6a to a control unit 1, which in turn can communicate with a cash unit 3 via a connecting line 3a.
  • the cash unit is embodied, for example, in the form of an electronic chip card module, the chip card representing a debit card from which money can be debited electronically.
  • the control unit 1 is connected via a connecting line 2a to a CD-ROM or general mass memory 2 in combination.
  • the satellite navigation module 6 When the device is turned on when a vehicle is started, the satellite navigation module 6 receives position data, and the microwave transponder 5 waits for signals emitted from the tollgate on the street side, which become receivable when the vehicle comes near these beacons. If the transponder 5 receives such signals, it establishes communication with the beacon via a MW-DSRC connection.
  • the control unit 1 causes with the information supplied by the transponder 5, a corresponding fee deduction on the introduced in the cash unit chip card. In the memory 2, all the streets are stored, although they are chargeable, but have no beacons.
  • control unit 1 When driving on such roads, the control unit 1 will determine by comparing the position data supplied by the satellite navigation module 6 with the data stored in the data memory 2 that the vehicle is on such routes, in particular overland routes, and a corresponding debiting of the charges from the smart card in the cash unit. 3 cause.
  • the information necessary for this purpose about the amount of the charges is requested via the mobile radio module 4 by mobile phone from the charging system operator.
  • the device 200 may either have its own modules 4 and 6 or alternatively be connected only via connecting lines 4a and 6a with mobile radio and GPS modules, which are already present in the vehicle anyway.
  • the debiting can also take place in that the control unit 1 via the mobile module 4 the mobile terminal 100, the vehicle license plate and the route used, which was determined by the control unit 1 via the satellite navigation module 6, transmitted to, for example, in retrospect be debited from the bank account of the vehicle owner.
  • the payload roads equipped with beacons may additionally be stored in the data memory 2 in order to make the system more verifiable, as described above in the description of FIG.

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  1. Procédé de perception automatique de taxes pour l'utilisation de routes ou d'aires de circulation selon lequel un appareil installé dans le véhicule saisit (20) des données de position du véhicule, selon lequel au passage d'une borne du côté de la route, l'appareil établit une communication électronique de courte portée (50, 80) avec la borne pour payer les taxes,
    caractérisé en ce qu'
    en cas de concordance des données de position avec les données d'une partie de réseau routier sans borne mais soumis à des taxes, le paiement des taxes se fait par une communication électronique (60) de longue portée de l'appareil avec une centrale de contrôle.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'appareil compare les données de position avec les positions du réseau partiel de route enregistrées dans une mémoire de données, en particulier dans une mémoire de masse installée dans le véhicule, par exemple un CD-ROM, DVD ou une puce ROM, de façon à activer la communication de longue portée de la partie de réseau routier.
  3. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les bornes sont installées le long de chaussées soumises au paiement de taxes dans des zones à forte concentration.
  4. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les données de position sont obtenues par un système d'information utilisant des satellites, en particulier un système GPS.
  5. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la communication à courte portée se fait par micro-ondes.
  6. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la communication à longue portée se fait par un téléphone mobile, en particulier un téléphone mobile GSM.
  7. Appareil de prélèvement automatique de taxes comportant un système de saisie de position (6) pour saisir la position du véhicule et un module (5) pour la communication à courte portée avec une borne,
    caractérisé par
    un autre module pour la communication à longue portée avec une centrale de contrôle, avec
    une unité de contrôle (1) reliée au système de saisie de position (6), au module (5) et à l'autre module (4), de sorte que
    au passage d'une borne du côté de la route, l'appareil établit une communication électronique de courte portée (50, 80) avec la borne pour payer les taxes,
    et
    en cas de concordance des données de position avec les données d'une partie de réseau routier sans borne mais soumis à des taxes, le paiement des taxes se fait par une communication électronique (60) de longue portée de l'appareil avec une centrale de contrôle.
  8. Appareil selon la revendication 7,
    caractérisé par
    une mémoire de données (2) pour enregistrer des données notamment des données de position du réseau routier partiel sans borne mais soumis à taxes, de façon que l'unité de contrôle (1) puisse comparer les données de position du véhicule aux données de position du réseau routier partiel.
  9. Appareil selon la revendication 8,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la mémoire de données (2) est constituée par un disque CD-ROM, un disque DVD ou une puce ROM, en particulier une puce ROM sur une carte à puce.
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