JP2916713B2 - Parking lot management device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a parking lot management system for managing the entrance and exit of vehicles and the management of parking fees in a parking lot having a plurality of entrances and exits.
The present invention relates to a parking lot management device having a function of controlling an empty vehicle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an unmanned automatic reception type parking lot, when a vehicle is detected by a detector installed at an entrance, the number of parkings is added to the current number of parkings, and the current number of parkings is parked in the parking lot. When a full state is detected by comparing with the number of available vehicles (the number of full vehicles), "full" is displayed on the display provided at the entrance, and the parking ticket issuance machine is installed at the entrance to issue a parking ticket. On the other hand, when the detector installed at the exit detects the exit of the vehicle, the number of exited vehicles is subtracted from the current number of parked vehicles, and if it is detected that the fullness has been released by this subtraction, In the case where the above-mentioned full-vacancy display is turned off, and there is a vehicle waiting for entry at the entrance, a so-called “full-vacancy control” is performed in which the parking ticket issuing machine issues a parking ticket and enables entry. ing.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned empty vehicle control is effective for a parking lot having one exit gate.
If this is used in a parking lot having a plurality of entrances, the following inconveniences have occurred. In other words, in a parking lot having a plurality of entrances, when a vehicle is received at one entrance and reception data is received, and as a result, the vehicle is fully occupied, the occupancy becomes full. In a short time before the information is transmitted, when a vehicle is detected at another entrance at another entrance, the parking ticket issuing machine may issue a parking ticket to permit entry. Also, when vehicles are waiting at the parking lot at multiple entrances when the vehicle is full, when one vehicle leaves the parking lot and the fullness is released, the parking ticket issuing machine issues a parking ticket at each entrance at the same time. In some cases, more than one vehicle can be parked in the parking lot and there is not enough parking space. Regardless of the order in which parking occurs, or regardless of the order of waiting for parking, ticket issuance is always given priority to only a certain parking ticket issuing machine, and it is not possible for parking to shift to a certain opening. There was a problem of fairness.

Accordingly, a technical problem of the present invention is to allow vehicles to enter from a plurality of entrances almost simultaneously to exceed the number of full vehicles, or to allow vehicles waiting at a plurality of entrances to enter together at the time of release of fullness. An object of the present invention is to provide a parking lot management device that can solve the problem that the number of full vehicles is exceeded and that the permission of entry is biased toward a certain entrance.

[0005]

Means taken by the present invention to solve the above-mentioned technical problems are as follows. Equipped with a plurality of entrances and exits, each entrance has a parking ticket issuing machine and an entrance gate, and each exit has an automatic fare adjustment machine and an exit gate. Between the automatic fare adjustment machines, a control device that performs full / vacant vehicle control based on entry information and exit information and the number of parkable vehicles is connected, and when each of the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machines detects a vehicle in the full state, In a parking lot configured to wait for entry without issuing a parking ticket, (1) issuing a parking ticket to the control device when a vehicle is detected in a full state in each of the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machines. A ticket issuance determination means for issuing a parking ticket when a ticketing permission is received from the control device in response to the request, and for holding the ticketing when there is no ticketing permission. (2) The above-mentioned control device is provided with a full communication means for communicating with each of the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machines as being full when the control device detects that the vehicle is almost full when the remaining number of vehicles enters the parking lot. (3) In the control device, the numbers of the parking ticket issuing machines are stored in the order in which the ticketing requests are received, and when the full state is released, the stored number of the parking ticket issuing machine is stored. Ticketing permission communication means for transmitting a parking ticket issuing permission signal in order. (4) The control device is provided with ticketing permission control means for performing a full-vacant vehicle control when the control device transmits a ticketing permission signal to the parking ticket issuing machine, assuming that one vehicle has been parked.

[0006]

The above means operates as follows. The element (1) above issues a parking ticket even though it is full, in order to confirm whether or not a ticket is issued to the control device when the parking ticket issuing machine recognizes that the vehicle is full and detects entry of the vehicle. Can solve the problem of exceeding the number of full parking lots, and in the empty state before recognizing the full state, the above-mentioned inquiry about whether or not a ticket can be issued is not performed. to enable.

The element (2) notifies the parking ticket issuing machine that the control device is fully occupied from a state of “almost fully” several cars before the control device is full, and inquires the control device whether ticketing is possible. For this reason, the control device can always give a response as to whether or not a ticket can be issued with a certain number of margins.Therefore, for a plurality of entering vehicles that came to the entrance at almost the same time, they communicated the entry permission and exceeded the full condition. Even in this case, it is possible to cover the shortage of the parking space with a margin for the above-mentioned several vehicles and to prevent the occurrence of various troubles.

[0008] The factor (3) is that when a parking space is created due to the release of a vehicle, the ticketing permission is sent in the order of the parking ticket issuing machine that has requested the ticketing, so that the ticketing permission is waited for when the vehicle is full. It was possible to solve the problem of having more than the number of vehicles parked and the problem that parking permission (ticketing permission) is biased to a certain entrance, by communicating the ticketing permission to the vehicles at each entrance. I do.

The factor (4) above is that when the control device transmits the ticketing permission signal, it is assumed that the vehicle has been occupied before the vehicle is actually detected, and the next empty vehicle control is performed. If multiple vehicles can be stored continuously from the state, or if only one vehicle can be parked while multiple vehicles are waiting, the ticketing is continued without waiting for actual parking. , So that the control of the empty vehicle can be performed promptly and smoothly. As described above, the technical problems described above can be solved by the above means, and the problems of the conventional technology can be solved.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the above-described parking lot management apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a parking lot management device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an electric configuration of a control device which is a main component of the present invention. 1A and 2A are parking ticket issuing machines installed at a plurality of entrances, and 1B and 2B are vehicle detectors for issuing tickets provided on outboard passageways of each entrance, and 1C and 2C are gate bars 1.
Entrance gates for each entrance with G, 2G, 1D, 2D
Is an entrance vehicle detector provided on an inward passage of each entrance, and when each of the ticket issuing vehicle detectors 1B and 2B detects an incoming vehicle (not shown), the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A are activated. Issue a parking ticket (not shown) recording the parking time at the ticket issuing port,
When the user removes the parking ticket from the ticket issuing port, a gate opening signal is sent from the parking ticket issuing machine 1A, 2A to the entrance gates 1C, 2C to open the gate bars 1G, 2G, thereby enabling entry of the vehicle, When the entrance vehicle detectors 1D and 2D detect the entering vehicle, the detection signal is transmitted to the parking ticket issuing machine 1
A, 2A, and then the parking ticket issuing machine 1A, 2A sends a gate closing signal to the entrance gates 1C, 2C to close the gate bars 1G, 2G, and completes one storage process.

Also, 3A and 4A are automatic fare adjustment machines installed at a plurality of exits of a parking lot, and 3B and 4B are adjustment vehicle detectors provided inside each exit exit passageway, and 3C and 4C are gate bars. Exit gates provided with 3G and 4G, 3D and 4D are entry vehicle detectors provided outside each of the exit passages, and when the vehicle detectors 3A and 4A detect the exit vehicle, an automatic fare adjustment is performed. The shutters (not shown) for the card slots of the machines 3B and 4B are opened to enable the payment of the parking ticket, and when the parking ticket is inserted into these slots, the entry time is read. Calculate and display the parking time and fee, and when the customer has settled this fee, exit gates 3C and 4C
To open the gate bars 3G and 4G,
The vehicle can be taken out of the vehicle, and the entry vehicle detector 3
When D and 4D detect outgoing vehicles, each automatic toll payment machine 3
A, a detection signal is sent to A, 4A, and then, each automatic fare settlement machine 3A, 4A sends a gate closing signal to the exit gates 3C, 4C to close the gate bars 3G, 4G, and completes one delivery process. It consists of It should be noted that the above-described procedures of the warehousing process and the warehousing process are described in, for example,
No. 83, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-80385, and the like, and detailed description thereof is omitted.

The management apparatus according to the present invention is implemented in a parking lot configured as described above.
Indicates a control device connected between each of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A described above and the automatic fare adjusting machines 3A and 4A. The control device 5 receives the parking data transmitted from each of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A, the parking data transmitted from each of the automatic fare adjustment machines 3A and 4A, and the number of parkings in the parking lot. Judgment of availability, if full, each parking ticket issuing machine 1
A, 2A communicates the full state and stops issuing parking tickets,
In addition, a display and a speaker (both not shown) provided on each of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A perform a display of "full" and an audio output, and in the case of "vacant", each parking ticket issuance. Machine 1
A and 2A are provided with a function of performing a so-called empty vehicle control to enable the issuance of a parking ticket by communicating the empty state and to display "empty" on the display.

When the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A receive a vehicle detection signal from the ticketing vehicle detectors 1B and 2B in a full state, the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A request the control device 5 to issue a parking ticket. If the ticketing permission is received from the control device 5 as a response, a parking ticket is issued, and if there is no ticketing permission, the ticketing permission / prohibition determining means for holding the ticketing is provided.

Further, when the control device 5 detects that the vehicle is fully occupied when several more vehicles are stored, based on the incoming data and the outgoing data, the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machine 1A , 2A, and the number of each of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A, 2A is stored in a memory in the order in which the ticketing request is received, and the fullness state is released by leaving the vehicle. Then, the ticket issuing permission communication means for transmitting the parking ticket issuing permission signal in the order of the stored parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A, and the control device 5 transmits the ticket issuing permission signal to each of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A. A ticketing permission control means is provided which, when transmitted, determines that one vehicle has entered the parking lot and carries out full / vacant vehicle control.

In FIG. 1, reference numerals 1T and 2T denote communication lines connecting the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A and the control device 5, respectively.
3T and 4T are each automatic fee settlement machines 3A and 4A and control device 5
This is a communication line that connects Further, in the block diagram shown in FIG.
Reference numeral 7 denotes a ROM storing various system programs including the above-described ticketing availability determination means, full-pack communication means, ticketing permission communication means, and ticketing permission control means, and various data such as entry and exit data and fee data. R to memorize
A memory constituted by an AM and a CPU
Each of the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A is connected to an interface 9 connected between the memory 6 and the memory 7 via a bus 8.
Each of the automatic fee settlement machines 3A, 4A is connected to the communication line 1T, 2T, 3
T, 4T.

In the above-described embodiment, the control device 5 has an independent structure.
It may be incorporated in the 4A side.

Next, the parking of the vehicle is executed based on the system program stored in the memory 7 of the control device 5 and the memories (not shown) mounted on the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A. Processing, operation processing of the control device 5,
In addition, each procedure of the empty vehicle control will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 3, 4, and 5.

(Vehicle Storage) The vehicle storage processing procedure is performed as shown in FIG. Step S1: Ticketing vehicle detector 1B provided at the entrance,
It is determined whether 2B has detected the vehicle that has come to the entrance,
If detected, the process proceeds to the next step S2, and if not detected, this process is repeated until detected. Step S2: It is determined whether or not the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A have received a "full state" from the control device 5. If the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A have received the "full state", the process proceeds to the next step S3. To step S6. Step S3: The parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A transmit a ticketing request to the control device 5, and proceed to the next step S4. Step S4: In order to notify the user of the fullness state, a fullness guidance is broadcast from speakers (not shown) provided in the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A, and a display (not shown) installed at the entrance. Is displayed, and the process proceeds to the next step S5. Step S5: Here, the control device 5 determines whether or not to issue a ticket. If there is a vehicle to be released, the full state is released. If the ticket is to be issued, the process proceeds to step S6. If it is not possible to issue a ticket, the process returns to step S4 and repeats the full guidance broadcast and display. Step S6: When the ticketing permission signal is received from the control device 5, and when it is determined that the vehicle is empty in step S2, the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A enter the parking time (current time).
Is issued, and the process proceeds to the next step S7. Step S7: When the customer pulls out the parking ticket from the ticket issuing port of the parking ticket issuing machine 1A, 2A, the entrance gates 1C, 2C open the gate bars 1G, 2G to enable entry of the vehicle. Step S8: When the entrance vehicle detectors 1D and 2D detect a vehicle traveling toward the parking lot by opening the gate bars 1G and 2G, the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2 are detected by the detection signals.
A sends a gate close signal to the entrance gates 1C and 2C to close the gate bars 1G and 2G, and further sends the entry data to the control device 5 to complete the entry process.

(Operation Process of Control Device) The operation process of the control device 5 is executed according to the procedure shown in FIG. Step S10: It is determined whether or not the parking data has been received from each of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A. If it has been received, the process proceeds to the next step S11. If it has not been received, the leaving data reception determination in step S14 described below has been performed. Proceed to step. Step S11: It is determined whether the warehousing is the warehousing corresponding to the ticketing permission in step S5 or the vacant warehousing in step S2. If the warehousing is due to the ticketing permission, the process proceeds to step S10. The processing is ended by returning to step S12.
Proceed to. Step S12: One is added to the data memory 7 storing the current parking number of the control device 5, and the next step S13
Proceed to. Step S13: Here, the full / vacant vehicle control shown in FIG. 5 is executed, and thereafter, the process returns to the initial step S10. Step S14: If it is determined in step S10 that the received data is not the receiving data receiving process, the automatic fee settlement machines 3A and 4
It is determined whether or not delivery data has been received from A,
If it has been received, the process proceeds to the next step S15, and if it has not been received, the process proceeds to a ticketing request reception determination step S17 of step S17. Step S15: If the retrieval data is received in step S14, one is subtracted from the current parking number stored in the data memory 7 of the control device 5, and the process proceeds to the next step S16. Step S16: Here, the full / vacant vehicle control shown in FIG. 5 is executed, and thereafter, the process returns to the initial step S10. Step S17: If it is determined in steps S10 and S14 that the incoming / outgoing data has not been received, the process proceeds to step S17 to determine whether or not a ticketing request transmitted from the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A has been received. If it has been received, the process proceeds to the next step S18, and if it has not been received, the process proceeds to step S19. Step S18: If there is a ticketing request, the numbers of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A are registered in the ticketing permission queue of the data memory 7 in the order of the request, and the next step S19.
Proceed to. Step S19: It is determined whether or not there is registration data waiting for permission in the ticketing permission queue of the data memory 7. If there is registration data, the process proceeds to step S20. If there is no registration data, the process directly proceeds to the first step S10. Return. Step S20: Here, it is determined whether or not the current parking situation is full, and if it is full, the process returns to the first step S10 without issuing a parking ticket. When the vehicle is no longer full, that is, when the vehicle is released from the full state and becomes empty, the process proceeds to the next step S21. Step S21: If it is determined in step S20 that the full state is released (substantially full or vacant) and parking is possible, the controller 5 sends the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A in the order of waiting for a ticket. A ticketing permission signal is transmitted, a parking ticket is issued, and the process proceeds to the next step S22. Step S22: Here, data for one vehicle is deleted from the ticketing permission queue recorded in the data memory 7 of the control device 5. Step S23: If the data for one vehicle is erased in step S22, it is regarded that the parking data is received without waiting for the parking data from the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A, and the number of parked vehicles in the data memory 7 is incremented by one. Proceed to S24. Step S24: Here, the full / vacant vehicle control shown in FIG. 5 is executed, and thereafter, the process returns to the initial step S10. If the entry of the vehicle is an entry corresponding to the ticketing permission in step S21, the control unit 5 regards the entry as the entry in step S23 and increases the current number of parked vehicles by one. Even if the parking data is received from 2A, the current parking number is not increased by one again as in step S11 described above.

(Fully Empty Vehicle Control) The fully empty vehicle control performed in steps S13, S16 and S24 described above is executed as shown in FIG. Step S30: The above steps S13, S16, S24
Is executed, the stored current number of parked vehicles and the number of full vehicles (the number of parkable vehicles) are compared, and if it is determined that the number of parked vehicles is larger or equal, the process proceeds to step S3.
The process proceeds to step S2 to recognize the "full state", and when it is determined that the number of full vehicles is larger, the process proceeds to step S31. Step S31: Here, comparing the number of parked vehicles described above with the number of parked vehicles that are “substantially fully charged” when several more vehicles are parked, and when it is determined that the number of parked vehicles is the same as the number of parked vehicles, Proceeding to step S34, it is recognized that the vehicle is almost full, and if it is determined that the number of vehicles is substantially full, the process proceeds to step S33 to recognize "vacant vehicle", and then the process proceeds to the next step S35. Step S35: Here, the status of the vacant vehicle is “vacant”.
Is determined to have been changed to “almost fully charged”, and if it is determined that the change has been made (YES), step S37 is performed.
The procedure proceeds to step S36, where "full state" is transmitted to each of the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A, and it is determined that no change has been made (NO), the procedure proceeds to step S36. Step S36: Here, it is determined whether or not the status of the fully occupied vehicle has been changed from “almost fully occupied” to “empty”. If the status has not been changed (NO), the process is performed without issuing a parking ticket. When it is determined that the change has been completed (YES), the process proceeds to the next step S38. Step S38: If it is determined in step S36 that the state is changed to the empty state, the empty state is transmitted to the parking ticket issuing machines 1A and 2A, and the parking ticket is issued to enable entry into the parking lot.

[0021]

As described above, the parking lot management system according to the present invention has a structure in which a vehicle arrives at a plurality of entrances almost at the same time, or a vehicle stands by at a plurality of entrances at the time of full release. In the parking lot, more than the number of vehicles that can be parked enters the parking lot and the parking space can not be found, so that various problems can be solved, and when fullness is released, a parking ticket that receives a ticketing request is issued Since the ticket issuance is issued in the order of the machines, it is possible to solve the problem that the ticketing permission is concentrated only at a certain entrance, that is, only at the parking ticket issuing machine, and the entrance of the vehicle is biased only to the certain entrance. In the case of entering the car based on the ticketing permission, the empty car state is checked immediately without waiting for the incoming data, and the empty car state is checked. Therefore, the advantage that the empty car control after the full car is released can be efficiently performed in a short time can be exhibited. Things Number of car spaces implemented in a large parking plurality comprising a number in goods receipt opening, is suitable for Makoto.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a parking lot management device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the control device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure for storing a vehicle.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation processing procedure of the control device.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of a fully vacant vehicle control.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1A, 2A Parking ticket issuing machine 1B, 2B Ticketing vehicle detector 1C, 2C Entrance gate 1D, 2D Entrance vehicle detector 3A, 4A Automatic fare payment machine 3B, 4B Payment vehicle detector 3C, 4C Exit gate 3D, 4D Entry vehicle detector 1T, 2T Communication line 3T, 4T Communication line 5 Controller 6 CPU 7 Memory

────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-62-69399 (JP, A) JP-A-57-86988 (JP, A) JP-A-3-265990 (JP, A) JP-A-3- 224967 (JP, A) Japanese Utility Model 2-133769 (JP, U) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G07B 15/00 G06F 17/60 G08G 1/14

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] Claims 1. A plurality of entrances and exits are provided, each entrance is provided with a parking ticket issuing machine and an entrance gate, and each exit is provided with an automatic fare adjustment machine and an exit gate. Between the ticket issuing machine and each automatic fare adjustment machine, a control device that controls full / vacant vehicles based on entry and exit information and the number of parkable vehicles is connected, and the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machines detect vehicles when they are full In the case where the parking ticket is issued without issuing a parking ticket, the parking ticket is issued to each of the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machines. When a ticketing permission is received from the control device as a response, a parking ticket is issued, and if there is no ticketing permission, a ticketing availability determination means for holding the ticketing is provided,
The above-mentioned control device is provided with a full communication means for communicating with each of the above-mentioned parking ticket issuing machines as being full when the control device detects that the vehicle is almost full when a few more vehicles enter the parking lot. The control device stores the number of each parking ticket issuing machine in the order in which the ticketing request is received,
A parking lot management device comprising ticketing permission communication means for transmitting a parking ticket issuing permission signal in the order of the stored parking ticket issuing machine numbers when the full state is released. 2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein when the control device transmits a ticketing permission signal to the parking ticket issuing machine, it is assumed that one vehicle has entered the parking lot and performs ticketing permission control means for performing full vehicle control. The parking lot management device according to claim 1, wherein