JP2784492B2 - Card-type ticket usage survey device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a usage survey of a card-type ticket in which a fare when a transportation means such as a route bus is boarded is settled by a readable and writable card-type ticket. Related to the device.

[Prior Art] In recent years, introduction of a card-type ticket system has been considered in public transportation such as a route bus in order to simplify the fare settlement at the time of getting on and off. This system is a system in which a high-priced ticket of a predetermined amount is purchased, and thereafter the ticket can be used any number of times within the validity period or within the valid amount up to the purchase amount.

For the settlement of the boarding fare, for example, a magnetic stripe is provided on the card-type ticket, and a process of subtracting the fare from the effective amount recorded on the magnetic stripe is performed. The information to be written on the magnetic stripe includes not only data such as the amount of money and the validity period, but also encryption for preventing fraud.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for adjusting the fare of a transportation agency using a card-type ticket, such as an error in rewriting the record information, taking too much fare due to a driver's operation error, and an abnormal ride such as an illegally used ticket. It is an object of the present invention to provide a card-type ticket use condition surveying device which can detect the record information and retrieve the record information at a later date.

[Means for Solving the Problems] According to the present invention, the use history of a card-type ticket is managed by a computer based on the unique number of the ticket. In other words, the card processing device provided in the vehicle performs the normal fare settlement process on the supplied card type ticket,
That is, the record information is read out, the record information is rewritten according to the use fare, and the fare adjustment is performed. Information read from the card-type ticket is transferred to an external computer by data transfer means.

The external computer creates a history file for each card-type ticket unique number from the transferred information. Further, it is checked whether or not there is an abnormality such as when the recorded amount of the card-type ticket increases without being subtracted, when it is abnormally subtracted, or when it has a plurality of unique numbers. A list of unique numbers of the card-type tickets determined to be abnormal is created and recorded in the internal memory.

If the fare is deducted from the normal fare due to an error in the writing of the card processing device or an error in the driver's operation, the history of the card type ticket can be printed or displayed on the printer by manually inputting the card unique number by key operation. Display on the container.

Also, a list of abnormal card-type tickets can be output by key operation.

[Embodiment] Hereinafter, an embodiment of a card-type ticket use condition inspection apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

 FIG. 1 shows the entire configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

The card processing devices 10 are provided one by one in a vehicle such as a route bus. When a passenger inserts a card-type ticket 21 to 2n into the card processing device 10, the fare is subtracted from the amount recorded on the card-type ticket. At this time, information of each card-type ticket is recorded, and is periodically transferred to the external computer 4 via the data transfer memory 3.

The external computer 4 manages the history of the information of each card-type ticket, and creates abnormal information when the amount to be reduced is increasing or when there are a plurality of tickets with the same number.

Next, the details of this card-type ticket use status investigation device will be described with reference to FIG.

The card processing device 10 reads information recorded on the supplied card-type ticket 2 by the reading / rewriting unit 11. The read record information is stored in the ticket data storage memory.
Recorded at 12. This record information is also transferred to the data transfer memory 3.

The usage record data of the card type ticket collected by the card processing device 10 is collected by the external computer 4 via the data transfer memory 3. The external computer 4 collects information on the used card-type tickets for each ticket, and organizes and records the number of times of use, date and time of use, deposit amount or balance in the ticket usage memory 41. FIG. 3A shows an example of the recorded contents of the usage status memory 41.

Based on the arranged data, it is determined whether or not each card-type ticket is abnormal, and if abnormal, information specific to the ticket such as the issue number of the card-type ticket (a unique number such as a ticket number) is abnormal. It is recorded in the ticket data recording memory 42.
Unnecessary information is deleted if necessary. FIG. 3B shows an example of the recorded contents of the abnormal boarding data recording memory 42. As the data transfer memory 3, a magnetic cassette, a magnetic disk,
In addition to a cartridge type such as an IC cassette, a wireless transfer method can be used.

Next, the ticket processing operation in the bus will be described with reference to the operation flowchart of FIG. 4, and the operation with the external computer will be described with reference to the operation flowchart of FIG.

In FIG. 4, the start is reading of a card-type ticket (S1), and the read data is recorded in the memory 12 as ticket data (S2). Normal fare adjustment is performed (S3), and then the ticket is discharged (S4). The above is the flow of the operation in the bus.

Next, the connection operation with the external computer will be described with reference to FIG. In the bus, the card processing device processes the card-type ticket and reads the ticket data (SS1). The read data is recorded in the memories 12 and 3 (SS
2). Periodically or after the operation is completed, the data stored in the card processing device is transferred to an external computer via a data transfer memory 3 such as a magnetic cassette or an IC cassette (SS3). The external computer 4 organizes the data for each card-type ticket (SS4), creates a list (SS5), and determines an abnormality (SS6). The data of the ticket determined to be abnormal is stored in the memory 42 (SS7).

The card-type ticket is not limited to the magnetic card type, but may be an IC card type, an optical card type, or other types.

When the history of the card-type ticket is required (SS8), when the card number is input by key operation (SS9), the information of the card is printed (SS10) or displayed (SS11).

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, it is possible to know the history of a card-type ticket without drastically changing the conventional device, and it is possible to easily determine a writing error of the card processing device and a driver's operation error. At the same time, the history of abnormal data can be easily extracted.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an external example in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a use state memory and an abnormal ticket data storage memory in an external computer. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the card processing apparatus, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a data flow between the card processing apparatus and an external computer.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A card-type ticket which is supplied to a card processing device, performs a fare adjustment according to a use fare on record information of the card-type ticket, and returns the card-type ticket. A reading / rewriting unit capable of reading the record information of the card-type ticket and rewriting the record information, a memory for recording the read record information, and a card-type ticket. A card processing device having a control unit for controlling reading / rewriting of recorded information and controlling the transfer of read information to an external computer; and a control unit for transferring information between the card processing device and the external computer. Means for organizing the record information transferred by the data transfer means and storing the ticket use status for each ticket number; Means for judging whether or not the treated ticket use condition is not abnormal, means for recording the ticket number and the content of the abnormality when the judgment means judges that the condition is abnormal, and the ticket use condition of the required card And a means for reading out the read-out ticket use status by printing or display.