JP2002259517A - Management system of information on fare and diagram - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily manage revised fare information and the like without respective conversions of formats of fare information and the like by railroad agency. SOLUTION: In a management system of information on fare and diagram, when fares and diagrams of railroads under a railroad agency A has been revised, information on corrected fares and diagrams is at first registered into a database 102A of it's own and delivered also to central management equipment 105 from a management equipment 101 of information on fare and diagram via Internet 109. The new information on fare and diagram registered into a central database 106 is managed by the equipment 105, and when necessary, the commonly formatted new information on fare and diagram is provided according to requests from railroad agencies B, C or a service agency D of transportation information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fare schedule information management system for efficiently managing fare information and schedule information (hereinafter referred to as "fare schedule information") of each railway organization. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, trains have been reciprocated between railway organizations. In such a case, if a fare revision or schedule revision is made on one of the railway service routes,
The other railway institution obtains the revised fare information from the railway institution, converts it into a format that conforms to its own database, registers it, and calculates the fare while referring to this database. Is being done.

[0002] FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of a route under the jurisdiction of the railway agencies A and B and an entry situation. Railway agency A operates trains between k station and l station, and railway agency B
Is assumed to operate a train between station l and station m. Further, it is assumed that the railway institution B has taken a train from the m station, which is the starting station, to the k station, beyond the l station within its jurisdiction. In such a case, when purchasing a ticket from m station to k station with a ticket vending machine installed at m station,
As fare information, not only the fare between the station k and the station l, but also the fare between the station l and the station k of the railway institution B are required. Further, when the timetable between the station 1 and the station k of the railway organization B is revised, it is necessary to adjust its own timetable accordingly.

[0003] Recently, a traffic information service has been provided which allows the user to check the fare information and timetable information of railway organizations on the Internet. A traffic information service provider that provides such services purchases fare information and timetable information from each railway organization, converts them into formats that are compatible with their own databases, and registers them in the database. Is used to provide

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional method, since each railway organization individually converts the format of the fare information and the like, it takes a very long time to update the database in each transportation organization. Was. The same applies to the traffic information service providing organizations. In particular, the traffic information service provider must deal with the revision of the fare of all railway organizations, and the updating of the database took a very long time. The present invention has been made in view of the above, and a fare diagram information management system that can easily manage revised fare information and the like without individually performing format conversion of the fare information and the like for each institution. The purpose is to provide.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 obtains fare diagram information individually managed by a fare diagram information management device of each railway organization and centrally manages the information as a database. In the fare diagram information management system provided with a central management device, the central management device has a function of converting the fare diagram information of each of the railway organizations into a common format. According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the fare diagram information management system according to the first aspect, the central management device provides the common formatted fare diagram information in response to a request from the fare diagram information management device. It is characterized by doing. According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the fare diagram information management system according to the first aspect, the central management device is configured to execute the common format in response to a request from a traffic information management device that provides a service for providing the fare diagram information. It is characterized in that it provides simplified fare schedule information.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a route information management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. This system includes a fare diagram information management device 101 provided for each railway institution, and a database 10 managed by the fare diagram information management device 101.
2, station equipment management devices 103 provided at each station under the control of each railway organization, station equipment 104 such as a ticket vending machine and an automatic ticket gate managed by the station equipment management device 103, Central management device 105 for centrally managing the fare schedule information, central database 106 managed by the central management device 105, traffic information management device 107 managed by the traffic information service organization, and management by the traffic information management device 107 Database 10
8. Fare schedule information management device 1
01, the station equipment management device 103, the central management device 105, and the traffic information management device 107 are connected to the Internet 109, respectively. Fare schedule information management device 101
And the traffic information management device 107 is connected to the Internet 109
, And the station service device management device 103 and the fare schedule information management device 101 can access each other via the Internet 109. The fare schedule information management device 101 is installed for each railway institution, manages and registers the fare schedule information of the line under the jurisdiction in the database 102, obtains the fare schedule information of the line under the control of the other railway institution, and stores it in the database. The information is registered and managed in 102. Further, it accesses the central management device 105 to provide its own fare schedule information. Database 10
2 means that the fare schedule information is for your own route and
If necessary, other jurisdictions are registered with their own data format and database structure.
The registered contents of the fare information are appropriately updated by the fare revision, and the schedule information of the schedule information is appropriately updated by the revised schedule.

[0007] The station service equipment management device 103 manages the station service equipment 104, for example, providing fare information necessary for ticketing processing of a ticket vending machine, ticketing processing of an automatic ticket gate, ticketing, and managing the state of ticket gates. The ticket vending machine can issue tickets not only to tickets on the line under its jurisdiction but also to stations on other lines. In that case, access the station equipment management device 103 to obtain fare information to stations on other lines. Then, the information is magnetically recorded on a ticket to issue a ticket. Automatic ticket gates also calculate the fare of the ticket of a passenger who has been directly connected according to the boarding route and open / close the gate by judging whether or not the passenger has crossed, that is, refusing to pass the ticket gate. The management apparatus 103 is accessed to obtain fare information between required stations on other routes, and the fare is calculated. The central management device 105 centrally manages the fare schedule information of each of the railway organizations A to C. Each of the railway organizations A to C distributes the revised fare schedule information to the central management device 105 when, for example, the fare schedule information is revised, and the central management device 105 accepts this and registers it in the database. At that time, the fare schedule information of each railway organization is registered after being converted into a predetermined database format. Therefore, the fare diagram information in such a common format is registered in the central database 106. The traffic information management device 107 has a function as a web server that provides fare schedule information, and searches for a fare, departure / arrival time, and the like in a designated section by accessing from a terminal device (not shown) connected to the Internet 109. The result is provided.

Next, the operation when the fare schedule information is revised will be described. The fare schedule information of each railway agency A to C is in each database 1 in its own database format.
02A to 102C, and these pieces of fare schedule information are also registered in the central database 106 in a common format and are in a state of being centrally managed by the central management apparatus 105. If there is a fare revision or a schedule revision on a route under the jurisdiction of the railway institution A, the fare schedule information corrected by the fare revision or the schedule revision is first registered in its own database 102A. The corrected fare schedule information is distributed via the Internet 109 to the station service device management device 103 provided for each station. When necessary for ticketing processing of a ticket vending machine or ticket processing of an automatic ticket gate, the fare schedule information is provided from the station service equipment management device 103 to the station service equipment 104. The station service equipment 104 is based on the corrected fare schedule information possessed by the station service equipment management device 103, and issuance processing for a ticket vending machine,
In the case of an automatic ticket gate, individual processes such as a ticket gate process are performed.

FIG. 2 shows a database 10 of fare schedule information.
6 is a flowchart for explaining a procedure for registering the information in the No. 6; The corrected fare diagram information is also distributed from the fare diagram information management device 101 to the central management device 105 via the Internet 109. First, the central management device 10 receiving an access request from the fare diagram information management device 101A
5 (S201), after authentication of access rights such as a user name and a password (S202), reception of fare diagram information is started (S203). Central management apparatus 105 that has completed reception
Performs the process of converting the fare schedule information having the format unique to the railway institution A into the common format (S20).
4). It should be noted that the database format of each railway institution is known in advance to the administrator of the central management device 105, and a format conversion program is prepared. The fare diagram information formatted in a common format by this conversion process is additionally registered in the central database 106 (S2).
05). That is, all past fare diagram information is accumulated, and generation management is performed without deleting the fare diagram information before correction by additionally registering new fare diagram information after correction. The new fare schedule information thus registered in the central database 106 is managed by the central management unit 105 and, if necessary, is formed into a common format by a request from the railway organizations B and C or the traffic information service organization D. Provide the new fare schedule information.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the procedure when the railway institution B acquires the fare schedule information. The central management device 105 that has received the access request from the fare diagram information management device 101B (S301), for example, F
By functioning as a TP server, after authentication of access rights such as a user name and a password (S302), a list of fare schedule information of each railway organization registered in the central database 106 is transmitted (S303). When the operator operating the fare diagram information management device 101B designates the railway institution A whose fare diagram information has been corrected while referring to this list information on the display (S304), distribution of the fare diagram information of the railway institution A, that is, Download is started (S305). At that time, processing such as data compression and encryption of the distribution information is appropriately performed. When a request for acquiring the fare schedule information specifying the railway institution A is made directly, the fare schedule information of the railway institution A is provided directly in response to the request without providing the above list information. The provision of the fare schedule information may be either free of charge or paid. In the case of the charge, the settlement processing may be performed via the settlement institution after the acquisition of the fare schedule information. When the download of the fare diagram information is completed, the fare diagram information management device 101B performs necessary processing such as decoding and data decompression on the received information, and then registers it in the database 102B. Further, the information is transferred to each station service device management device 103 and recorded therein. As described above, when a fare revision or a schedule revision is made in the railway institution A, the revised fare schedule information is provided to the central management device, and the content is registered in a state where the content is converted into a common format in advance. Therefore, other railway agencies B and C that need this information can easily acquire and utilize the information.

Note that the acquisition of the fare diagram information described above
It is performed not only by the railway organizations B and C but also by the traffic information service organization D. If the fare schedule information is revised in any transportation, traffic information service agency D
Must provide a service based on the fare schedule information after the correction. Therefore, the traffic information management device 10
7 acquires the fare schedule information of the railway organization A in the same manner as the procedure shown in FIG. As a result, it is possible to always provide the latest fare schedule information for each railway organization, and it is not necessary to separately inquire the revision status and acquisition request of the fare schedule information for each transportation agency, and individual format conversion is not required Becomes

[0012]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the centralized management system acquires the fare schedule information individually managed by the fare schedule information management device of each railway organization and centrally manages it as a database. In the fare schedule information management system provided with the device, the central management device includes:
With the function to convert the fare schedule information of each railway institution to the common format, when each railway institution acquires the fare schedule information of other railway institution, it converts each railway institution's own format to its own format. And the acquisition and utilization thereof are extremely easy. Also,
According to claim 2, in the fare diagram information management system according to claim 1, the central management device provides the common formatted fare diagram information in response to a request from the fare diagram information management device. Even if the fare schedule information is revised in a certain transportation system, if it is requested directly from the central management device that provides the fare schedule information in a common format without directly requesting the transportation system, the format is converted by itself. It is not necessary to perform the above, and its utilization becomes extremely easy. According to the invention described in claim 3, in the fare diagram information management system according to claim 1, the central management device receives the request from a traffic information management device that provides a service for providing the fare diagram information. Since the fare schedule information is provided in a common format, it is not necessary for the traffic information service organization that provides the service to provide the fare schedule information as traffic information. Handling and utilization of the material become extremely easy.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a route information management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining a procedure for registering fare diagram information in a database 106;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a procedure when a railway institution B acquires fare diagram information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of a jurisdiction line of railway agencies A and B and an entry situation.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 information management device, 102 database, 103
Station service equipment management device, 104 Station service equipment, 105 central management device, 106 central database, 107 traffic information management device, 108 database, 109 Internet

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A fare diagram information management system comprising a central management device that acquires fare diagram information individually managed by a fare diagram information management device of each railway organization and centrally manages the database as a database. And a function for converting the fare schedule information of each of the railway organizations into a common format. 2. The fare diagram information management system according to claim 1, wherein the central management device provides the common formatted fare diagram information in response to a request from the fare diagram information management device. Fare schedule information management system. 3. The fare diagram information management system according to claim 1, wherein the central management device is configured to execute the common format fare diagram in response to a request from a traffic information management device that provides a service for providing the fare diagram information. A fare schedule information management system characterized by providing information.