JP2011150391A - Traffic system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traffic system for relaxing the traffic jam of a road in the periphery of a station in a commuter rush in the morning and in the evening. <P>SOLUTION: The traffic system is provided with: a parking area 2 arranged in a location separated from the station of a railroad for storing a movement means 7 to be used by the user of the railroad; a road connecting the parking area 2 and the station of the railroad; and a transportation means 4 moving on the road for transporting the user of the railroad between the parking area 2 and the station of the railroad. The parking area 2 is provided with: an arrival and departure place 10 of the transportation means 4; and a first parking 11 as the storage place of a moving means 7 arranged in the neighborhood of the arrival and departure place 10. At least the neighborhood of the station of the railroad and the arrival and departure place 10 of the road connecting the parking area 2 and the station of the railroad, is provided as an exclusive road which is used only by the transportation means 4. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a traffic system, and more particularly to a traffic system that can alleviate traffic congestion around a station during morning and evening commuting rush hours.

  When using public transportation for commuting or attending school, commuters or commuters (hereinafter referred to as commuters, etc.) walk from their homes to the nearest bus stop and from there to the railway station by bus Often to do. In some cases, the family drives the car to the station and takes the train from the station.

  Along with this, in the towns around the big city, there is a problem of road traffic around the station that occurs during morning and evening commuting rush hours. In particular, on rainy and snowy days, people who are not usually picked up by private cars will be picked up by private cars, so the roads around the station are more congested or stagnant than usual. In particular, when a family member sends his / her own car to the station, the driving family travels between the home and the station twice a day in the morning and evening, which is a burden on the family. For this reason, various inventions aimed at eliminating chronic traffic congestion have been made so far.

  Patent Document 1 below discloses a shared vehicle operation system. According to the shared vehicle operation system described in Patent Document 1, a plurality of persons can share an ultra-small single-seat or two-seater vehicle for movement between destinations.

JP-A-8-110997

  However, the shared vehicle operation system described in Patent Document 1 has a problem that it requires the labor of lending and returning by using the shared vehicle. Moreover, since a port for renting or returning a shared vehicle is provided in the vicinity of the railway station, the problem that the road around the station is congested still remains.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to alleviate the traffic on the roads around the station during commuting rush hours in the morning and evening, as well as to eliminate the burden on families who pick up and drop off by private cars. It is to provide a transportation system that can.

  In order to achieve the above object, a transportation system (1) according to the present invention is provided at a position away from a railway station, and stores a transportation area used by a user of the railway, and the parking area. A road that connects between the railway station and the railway station; and a transportation means that travels on the road to transport the user of the railway between the parking area and the railway station. An area has a landing area for the transportation means arranged in the parking area, and a first parking place that is a storage place for the moving means arranged in the vicinity of the landing area, and the parking area At least the vicinity of the railway station and the parking area of the road connecting the railway station is a dedicated road that can be used only by the transportation means.

  The transportation system (2) according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the transportation system (1), the departure and arrival point of the transportation means on the railway station side is located inside a ticket gate of the station.

  Further, the transportation system (3) according to the present invention is an IC card issued at any one of the first parking, the departure / arrival place, and the railway station in the transportation system (1) or (2). , A parking ticket, and a boarding ticket, and paying at least two of the parking fee, the transportation usage fee, and the railway usage fee in a lump. To do.

  Moreover, the traffic system (4) according to the present invention includes a commercial facility, a public facility, or an educational institution that is a facility where people gather in the parking area in any one of the traffic systems (1) to (3). At least one of these facilities is arranged.

  According to the transportation system of the present invention, commuters and the like travel by themselves on a general road from their home to the parking area using means such as bicycles, motorcycles, or private cars, and shuttle from the parking area to the railway station. Take a bus and move on a private road. By using this transportation system, people who have traveled to their stations by private cars until now can alleviate traffic congestion around the station during morning and evening commuting rush hours.

  The commuters move by themselves from the home to the parking area, and park the means (bicycle, motorcycle, private car, etc.) used for the movement in the parking area. When you come home, you will be moved by your own means of transportation parked in the parking area, so there will be no need for your family to pick you up between your home and the station, and the burden on your family will be reduced. it can.

  In addition, since a facility where many people gather in the morning is located in the parking area, the movement direction of people who have been biased in one direction depending on the time of day can be moved back and forth all day regardless of the time of day. Is expected. That is, since the shuttle bus can be operated in a state in which the shuttle bus is full or has many passengers on both the outward route and the return route, the transportation efficiency is good.

It is a mimetic diagram explaining the traffic system concerning the present invention roughly. It is a schematic diagram of the parking area in the traffic system which concerns on this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description and drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or similar components, and thus the description of the same or similar components is omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram schematically illustrating a traffic system according to the present invention. The traffic system according to the present invention travels on a parking area 2 provided at a position distant from the railway station 1, a dedicated road 3 connecting the parking area 2 and the railway station 1, and the dedicated road 3. And a shuttle bus 4.

  The railway station 1 is, for example, a terminal station used by many passengers or a station where express trains stop, and commuters move from this station 1 to urban areas. The parking area 2 is a concept that includes not only car parking lots but also bicycle parking lots such as bicycles and motorcycles, and is provided at a position away from the railway station 1 by a predetermined distance, for example, 1 km or more. The exclusive road 3 is a road that can be used only by the shuttle bus 4, and general vehicles cannot enter it. The shuttle bus 4 is a large bus that runs on the exclusive road 3 and frequently goes back and forth between the parking area 2 and the railway station 1 many times. When the shuttle bus 4 uses a general road in a part of the section, an opening / closing gate 5 is provided on the entrance to the exclusive road 3. The open / close gate 5 is of an automatic identification type and communicates with a wireless identification device attached to the shuttle bus 4 and opens the gate only when the shuttle bus 4 permitted to pass in advance passes. For movement between the home 6 and the parking area 2, a moving means 7 such as a bicycle, a motorcycle or a private car is used.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a parking area in the transportation system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, various facilities and the like that have been conventionally arranged around the railway station 1 are arranged in a substantially concentric manner in the parking area 2. That is, in the transportation system according to the present invention, various facilities that have been conventionally arranged around the railway station 1 from the viewpoint of convenience are arranged at positions away from the station 1 by a predetermined distance, Relieve traffic congestion around station 1 during morning and evening commuting rush hours.

  An area for storing the moving means 7 (first parking 11 to be described later) is secured in the parking area 2, and the area for storing the moving means 7 is substantially concentric from the center of the parking area 2 (ie, The roads in the parking area 2 will not be significantly congested.

  In the center of the parking area 2, a departure / arrival place 10 for the shuttle bus 4 is arranged, and a first parking 11 is arranged on the outer periphery of the departure / arrival place 10. A first facility is disposed along the road 12 connecting the first parking 11 and the landing area 10, and a second facility 13 is disposed on the outer periphery of the first parking 11. Furthermore, a second parking 14 is arranged on the outer periphery of the second facility 13. As shown in FIG. 2, the landing area 10, the first parking 11, the first facility, the second facility 13, and the second parking 14 are arranged substantially concentrically. At the outermost periphery of the parking area 2, an educational institution 15 such as a university or a high school is arranged.

  The departure / arrival place 10 is a place for getting on and off the shuttle bus 4, and the arrival / departure place 10 and the station 1 are connected by a dedicated road 3. The exclusive road 3 is constructed as, for example, an elevated road or an underpass including the part that enters the railway station 1 and the parking area 2. The shuttle bus 4 is connected to the departure / arrival place 10 located in the center of the parking area 2. One parking 11, first facility, second facility 13, and second parking 14 can be directly crossed over.

  The first parking 11 is a parking for commuting or attending school, and is an area for storing the moving means 7 used for moving to and from the home 6. As shown in FIG. 2, the first parking 11 is divided into a plurality of areas, and the first facility is arranged along the road 12 between the adjacent first parkings 11 as described above. The first parking 11 may be further divided into a plurality of areas.

  The first facility is a shopping street, for example, and the second facility 13 is a commercial facility such as a restaurant street, an amusement facility, or a hotel, or a public facility such as a post office, a general hospital, or a condominium for the elderly. Table 1 shows an example of the first facility and the second facility 13. The second parking 14 is a parking for the second facility 13.

  Hereinafter, the utilization form of the traffic system comprised in this way is demonstrated. In the transportation system according to the present invention, commuters and the like always use the parking area 2.

  First, when going to work or going out, the user moves from the home 6 to the parking area 2 using the moving means 7 such as a bicycle, motorcycle or private car, and parks the moving means 7 in the first parking 11 in the parking area 2. A parking ticket issuing machine for issuing a parking ticket (for example, an IC card) is installed at or near the entrance / exit of the first parking 11. Commuters, etc., pass the parking ticket to the ticket gates installed in the shuttle bus 4 or at the entrance of the departure / arrival area when getting on and off the shuttle bus 4 to record the fact of using the shuttle bus 4 in the parking ticket. Then, the user takes a shuttle bus 4 from the parking area 2 and moves on the exclusive road 3 to the railway station 1. In order to ease congestion at the time of transfer to the railway, the shuttle bus 4 arrives and departs inside the ticket gate of the railway station 1. Commuters and the like move from the station 1 to urban areas using the railway. On the other hand, when returning home, the user gets on the shuttle bus 4 from the railway station 1 and moves to the parking area 2. And it moves to the home 6 using the own moving means 7 parked in the parking area 2.

  Conventionally, the movement direction of a person is biased in one direction depending on the time zone. For example, there was a lot of movement from home to the station in the morning, and a lot of movement from the station to the house after the evening, which caused traffic congestion on the road around the station during morning and evening commuting rush hours. However, in the transportation system of the present invention, the moving direction of the person changing between morning and afternoon is adjusted by arranging a facility where many people gather in the morning in the parking area 2. Specifically, in the parking area 2, there are educational institutions 15 such as universities and high schools, commercial facilities such as restaurants and entertainment facilities, and public facilities such as post offices and general hospitals (ie, second facilities). 13) is arranged so that students who go to the educational institution 15 and employees who work in these commercial facilities and public facilities can move in the opposite direction of the above-mentioned conventional case, that is, in the morning in the station. A person is expected to move from 1 to the parking area 2, and after the evening, a person is also expected to move from the parking area 2 to the station 1. Therefore, the shuttle 4 can expect many passengers in a round trip all day regardless of the time zone.

  Conventionally, inconveniences such as visits to the elderly and daily shopping have become problems due to the abolition of bus routes and the closure of small shops. However, in the transportation system of the present invention, in the parking area 2, there are a shopping street, a supermarket (first facility), a post office, a general hospital, a public facility such as an elderly apartment (that is, the second facility 13). Because it is placed, it is convenient for elderly people to go to the hospital and shopping on foot. Alternatively, it is convenient for elderly people to go to remote areas by taking the railway from the shuttle bus 4 or the station 1. Furthermore, since a shopping street or a supermarket (first facility) is arranged in the vicinity of the first parking 11, for commuters, etc., when they go to work, go out, or go home, they stop by the shopping street or the supermarket. There is an advantage that you can shop, and for the shopping streets and supermarkets you can attract customers.

  In addition, when getting on and off the shuttle bus 4, the parking ticket is passed through the ticket gate installed in the shuttle bus 4 and at the entrance / exit of the departure / arrival area, and the fact that the shuttle bus 4 is used is recorded in the parking ticket. The round-trip fee for the shuttle bus 4 and the parking fee for the first parking 11 can be paid together when leaving the first parking 11. Since it is not necessary to pay for the use of the shuttle bus 4 when getting on and off the shuttle bus 4, the time for getting on and off the shuttle bus 4 can be shortened, and congestion of commuters and the like at the departure and arrival place 10 can be alleviated. The payment method for the parking ticket may be a charge method, a prepaid method or a postpaid method.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated by specific embodiment, this invention is not limited to above-described embodiment.

  In the above embodiment, the train rides from the station 1, but it may be a vehicle that moves on the track, such as a train, a train, a monorail, and a linear motor car.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the shuttle bus 4 is operate | moving on the exclusive road 3, the means to transport a commuter etc. between the parking area 2 and the railway station 1 is not restricted to the shuttle bus 4, Any car that can travel on the road may be used.

  In the above embodiment, the shuttle bus 4 moves on the exclusive road 3 from the parking area 2 to the railway station 1, but at least the vicinity of the station 1 where the traffic congestion occurs and the landing area of the parking area 2 The vicinity of 10 may be designated as exclusive road 3. For example, if the above-described open / close gate 5 is provided on the entrance from the general road to the exclusive road 3, the general vehicle can be prevented from entering the exclusive road 3.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the exclusive road 3 is constructed as an elevated road or an underpass, the exclusive road 3 is the space which can be constructed without acquiring new land as much as possible, for example, a railroad track. It may be constructed in up and down space, up and down space of public roads (including general roads), up and down space of rivers, or public land.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the apartment for elderly people is illustrated as an example of a 2nd facility, the apartment may be for families or for single persons.

  When the train gets on and off, the parking ticket is passed through the ticket gates of the station 1 and the target station, and the fact that the railway is used is recorded in the parking ticket, so that the parking fee of the first parking 11 and the shuttle bus 4 In addition to the usage fee, the railroad usage fee may be collectively settled with a parking ticket. In addition, when there is a departure / arrival place inside the ticket gate of the station 1, the passage here becomes unnecessary. Further, by providing the parking ticket with a function of regular use, the first parking 11, the shuttle bus 4, and the railway may be used at a fixed charge for a fixed period.

  In the above embodiment, the educational institution 15 such as a university or a high school is arranged at the outermost periphery of the parking area 2, but the educational institution 15 may be included in the second facility 13.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the 1st parking 11 is shown planarly, the 1st parking 11 may be a three-story parking lot or more, for example.

1 Railway Station 2 Parking Area 3 Private Road 4 Shuttle Bus 5 Open / Close Gate 6 Home 7 Transportation (Bicycle, Motorcycle, Private Car, etc.)
10 Shuttle bus stop 11 First parking (for commuting or school)
12 roads (connecting between the first parking and the landing)
13 Second facility (commercial facility, public facility)
14 Second parking (for commercial and public facilities)
15 educational institutions

Claims (4)

A parking area provided at a position away from the railway station and storing the transportation means used by users of the railway,
A road connecting the parking area and the railway station;
Transport means for moving on the road and transporting the user of the railway between the parking area and the railway station;
The parking area is
A landing area for the means of transportation located in the parking area;
A first parking, which is a storage location for the moving means, arranged in the vicinity of the landing area;
A traffic system characterized in that at least the vicinity of the railway station and the parking area of the road connecting the parking area and the railway station is a dedicated road that can be used only by the transportation means.   The transportation system according to claim 1, wherein a departure / arrival point of the transportation means on the railway station side is located inside a ticket gate of the station.   The parking fee and the use fee of the transportation means are any one of an IC card, a parking ticket, and a boarding ticket issued at any of the first parking, the departure / arrival place, and the railway station. 3. The transportation system according to claim 1, wherein any two or more of the use fees of the railway are settled together.   The facility according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein at least one of a commercial facility, a public facility, and an educational institution that is a facility where people gather is arranged in the parking area. Transportation system.

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