JP3187166B2 - Diamond editing device using an automatic ticket gate - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a timetable editing apparatus for editing an operation timetable of, for example, a railway, and more particularly to an automatic ticket gate which obtains basic data for timetable editing from information on a ticket obtained by an automatic ticket gate. The present invention relates to a diamond editing device using a machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Each railway company carries out a schedule revision at regular intervals. In the timetable revision, it is necessary to quantitatively grasp from which station each passenger gets on at which station and gets off at which station.

Conventionally, in this passenger number survey, a card describing the station name and the time of entry was handed to visitors on the premises at each station, and the card was collected at the exit of the getting off station. After that, the collected cards are manually tabulated at each station, the number of passengers between stations at each time zone is calculated, and the required trains for each time zone are taken into account, taking into account the train occupancy rate of each train, etc. The number had been determined.

[0004]

However, as described above, the operation of handing a card to each passenger and collecting the card later requires a great deal of manpower, and thus cannot be performed frequently. In addition, it imposes a burden on passengers. Further, since not all cards are necessarily collected, the accuracy of the total number of passengers is reduced. Therefore,
There is a concern that it is not possible to perform the optimal timetable editing corresponding to the actual number of passengers.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and information on boarding stations of passengers who enter the station premises via automatic ticket gates provided at each station. By collecting entry information such as getting-off station information and entry times, the number of passengers between stations at each time zone can be accurately grasped, the required number of trains operated can be automatically calculated, and boarding is always continued It is an object of the present invention to provide a diagram editing device using an automatic ticket gate that can perform a number survey and implement a more detailed diagram formation.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in a timetable editing apparatus using an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention, a ticket editing machine is installed at an entrance of a station of a transportation facility and inserted into a ticket. An automatic ticket gate that reads the recorded boarding station information and getting off station information, and outputs the read boarding station information and getting off station information with the current date and time added to the admission information; A station centralized device that tallies the entrance information output from each automatic ticket gate, a data receiving device that receives the entrance information tallied from the station centralized device of each station via a communication line, and a data receiving device that receives the data. Means for calculating the number of passengers in each time zone between the stations based on the obtained entry information from each station, and a target boarding rate in which the train occupancy rate is predetermined for each time zone based on the calculated number of cars. Near value Made as those having a travel number calculating means for calculating the train operation number of each time period.

[0007]

In a timetable editing apparatus using an automatic ticket gate configured as described above, for example, when a customer who has brought a ticket such as a ticket or a regular ticket passes through the automatic ticket gate provided at the entrance of the station, When the ticket is inserted into the automatic ticket gate, the boarding station information and the getting off station information recorded on the ticket are read, the current date and time indicating the entry date and time are added, and the information is output from the automatic ticket gate as entry information. Admission information output from each automatic ticket gate is counted by the station centralized device.

The totalized data from the station centralized device at each station is received by the data receiving device, and the number of passengers between stations is calculated for each time zone based on the received data, and the number of passengers between the stations is calculated based on the number of passengers. The optimal number of trains operated is determined.

[0009]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a route diagram of a railway company to which the diagram editing apparatus of the embodiment is applied. In the main line 1, stations 2a to 2e are arranged at five places, and two branch lines 3 and 4 are connected to the main line 1 at the position of the station 2b. In the branch line 3, four stations 2f to 2i are provided, and in the branch line 4, 3 stations are provided.
Stations 2j to 2m are arranged at several places.

A center device 5 such as a computer is provided at a management center such as the head office of a railway company. The stations 2a to 2m and the center device 5 are connected, for example, via communication lines 6, respectively. Fig. 1 shows each station 2a ~
It is a block diagram which shows the schematic structure of the station side apparatus 7 and the center apparatus 5 installed in 2 m.

In the station-side device 7, a plurality of automatic ticket gates 8 provided at the entrance of the station to the station premises are connected to the respective automatic ticket gates 8 via premises signal lines 9, respectively. A station centralized device 10 is provided. The automatic ticket gate 8 includes a ticket reading unit 8a, a ticket data processing unit 8b, and a data transmission unit 8c.

The ticket reading section 8a reads the boarding station code and the getting off station code magnetically recorded on the inserted ticket.
If the ticket is a commuter pass, the validity period is also read at the same time. The read data is sent to the ticket inspection data processing unit 8b. The ticket gate data processing unit 8b determines the validity / invalidity of the inserted ticket and, if invalid, drives a lever (not shown) to close the passage. If it is determined that the information is valid, the read station code and the getting-off station code are added with current date and time data indicating the date and time when the customer entered the station yard, and transmitted to the next data transmission section 8c as entry information. The data transmission unit 8c transmits the entry information via the local signal line 9 to the station centralized device 1
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The station centralized device 10 temporarily stores each entry information received from each automatic ticket gate 8 in the data storage device 11.
Then, at the end of the day's work, each entry information is totaled. Then, at a predetermined time, such as midnight, when the work is completed, for example, the counting result is transmitted to the center device 5 via the communication line 6.

The center device 5 comprises a data receiving device 12 and a data processing unit 13 as shown in the figure.
The data processing unit 13 is connected to a database 14 for storing various data processing results and analysis results, a display 15 for displaying the analysis results and calculation results, and a printer 16 for printing and outputting various data.

The data processing section 13 is constituted by a plurality of program methods in a kind of information processing apparatus. That is, the data processing unit 13 includes the time lag correction processing unit 1
3a, a passenger count calculation processing unit 13b, an inter-station passenger count calculation processing unit 13c, an inter-station occupancy rate calculation processing unit 13d, an operating number calculation processing unit 13e, a balance calculation processing unit 13f, and the like.

In the center device 5 having such a configuration,
The data receiving device 12 that has received the totalized entry information from the station centralized device 10 of each station-side device 7 transfers each entry information to the time lag correction processing unit 13a.

The time lag correction processing unit 13a is connected to each station 2a
Average delay obtained by adding the average waiting time for a train to arrive to the average time required for a customer entering from each automatic ticket gate 8 to actually climb to the platform, for each entry information of each automatic ticket gate 8 of ~ 2 m. The time is added to the entry time (current date and time) of each entry information. That is, the time lag correction processing unit 13a corrects the entry time of the entry information to the time when the user actually gets on the train at the platform. Therefore, the corrected data is the boarding date and time data. Each entry information whose time has been corrected by the time lag correction processing unit 13a is transmitted to the next passenger number calculation processing unit 13b.
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The number-of-passengers calculation processing unit 13b counts each piece of input information as the number of passengers, and calculates the number of passengers by route, year, month, and day of the week. The calculation result is stored in the database 14 in the format shown in FIG. At the same time, it is displayed on the display 15. In addition, if necessary, the printer 16 prints out a list. In addition, it is also possible to display not a table form but a graph.

Further, the processing unit 13c for calculating the number of passengers between stations is:
From the boarding station code, the getting off station code and the corrected boarding date and time data included in each entry information from each station 2a to 2m,
The number of passengers is calculated between stations, for example, for each time zone divided every hour or every 30 minutes, for each year, each month, and each day of the week. The calculation results are stored in the database 14 and are displayed in the form of a list or a graph.
And is printed out by the printer 16.

The next station-to-station-based occupancy rate calculation processing unit 13d
Calculate the occupancy rate of each train on the currently operated bus schedule. The occupancy rate A (%) is expressed by the following equation using the number of passengers X in the designated time zone, the number of trains N operated in the corresponding time zone, the number of trains organized in the train n, and the occupancy B of one vehicle. It is. A = [X / (N × n × B)] × 100

The occupancy rate A for each station is calculated for each time period for each year, season, and day of the week. The calculated riding ratio A under each condition is stored in the database 14 as well as displayed on the display 15 and printed out by the printer 16 in the same manner as described above. Operation number calculation processing unit 13e
First, the following two parameters 1 and 2 are set.

The operator designates the route name, period, day of the week, time zone, number of trains n per train, required driving time, target occupancy rate A, and driving interval as the parameter 1.

Further, the operator sets the parameter 2 as
A calculation target period is specified for how many years ago each data obtained by the above-described calculation processing units 13b, 13c, and 13d is used. When the above two parameters 1 and 2 are set by the operator, the number of trains at each station stop level is calculated as processing 1.

That is, when parameters 1 and 2 are given, processing 1 is started, and the route specified by parameter 1
period. The data stored in the database 14 is searched by using the day of the week, the time zone, and the calculation target period designated by the parameter 2 as keys. Then, the number of passengers by year, month, day of the week, and time zone within the calculation target period is extracted from the retrieved data. Further, the growth rate of the number of passengers at the time of the timetable revision is calculated, and the number of passengers X at the time when the final new timetable operation starts is calculated.

Next, based on the number of passengers X in the corresponding time zone calculated as the predicted value, the number of trains n, the required driving time, and the target occupancy rate A of one train specified by the parameter 1 are calculated.
Is used to calculate the train operation number Nr at each station stop level required as a new schedule. Nr = 100B / AXn The number N of trains stopped at each station in the specified time zone in the process 1
When the calculation processing of r is completed, the processing of weaving different types of trains such as limited express and express in processing 2 is performed.

That is, the number of trains Nr described above is the level of each station stop, and is not a realistic train schedule. Therefore, the station section used a large number of times and the number of passengers using the station section are extracted from the plurality of inter-station passenger numbers calculated by the inter-station passenger number calculation processing unit 13d and displayed on the display unit 15. Then, the operator determines a train type such as an express train or an express train and the number of trains operated by each type based on the display result.

Then, the determined number of trains for each type is incorporated into the operation schedule calculated assuming that only the train stops at each station. At the same time, the process of thinning out the operation schedule of each station stop train for the number of passengers corresponding to the increase in the number of limited express trains and express trains is performed. As a result, a final practical service schedule is created. The created operation schedule is printed out by the printer 16.

The balance calculation processing unit 13f performs an estimation calculation of the power usage fee and the fare revenue for operating the train on the basis of the number of trains operated and the estimated number of passengers created by the number of trains calculation processing unit 13e. Then, the income and expenditure forecast calculation processing as a railway company is performed. The estimation calculation result is displayed on the display 15 as numerical information or graph information,
The printout is performed by the printer 16.

In this way, by changing the set values of the parameters 1 and 2 in the number-of-operations calculating section 13e in order and creating an operation diagram several times by the above-described method, passengers can also use the railway. The best service schedule can be selected and determined for the company.

As described above, the operation schedule can be organized mainly on the basis of the accumulated data of the number of passengers in the past, so that the operation schedule is accurate, has high passenger serviceability, and has a well-balanced management balance. Can be built.

Also, by using this diagram editing device as a simulation device, it is possible to predict future trends in the total number of passengers, trends in the number of passengers between stations, etc., and to increase the number of routes and trains as a railway system. Can be performed with high accuracy.

Further, since the number of passengers is automatically collected, there is no need to manually distribute the cards to the passengers as in the conventional method, so that the cost required for the survey can be reduced and the burden on the passengers can be reduced. There is no compulsion.

[0034]

As described above, according to the timetable editing apparatus using the automatic ticket gate according to the present invention, the boarding station information of the passenger who enters the station premises via the automatic ticket gate provided at each station. It collects entry information such as getting off station information and entry time. Therefore, the number of passengers between stations at each time zone can be accurately grasped, the required number of trains operated can be automatically calculated, the number of passengers can be continuously surveyed, and a more detailed schedule can be implemented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a diagram editing apparatus using an automatic ticket gate according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a railway line to which the apparatus of the embodiment is applied;

FIG. 3 is an exemplary view showing storage contents of a database of the apparatus of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Main line, 2a-2m ... Station, 3, 4 ... Branch line, 5 ... Center device, 6 ... Communication line, 7 ... Station side device, 8 ... Automatic ticket gate,
9: Premise signal line, 10: Station centralized device, 12: Data receiving device, 13: Data processing unit, 13a: Time lag correction processing unit, 13b: Passenger number calculation processing unit, 13c: Passenger number calculation processing unit between stations, 13d: Station-by-station ride rate calculation processing unit, 13
e: operation number calculation processing unit, 13f: balance calculation processing unit, 1
4 ... Database, 15 ... Display, 16 ... Printer.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] Claims 1. The information of a boarding station and an alighting station, which are provided at an entrance of a station of a transportation facility and are recorded on an inserted ticket, are read, and the read information of the boarding station and the alighting station are added to the current date and time. An automatic ticket gate that outputs entrance information with added information, a station centralized device that is provided at each station and tallies the entrance information output from each automatic ticket gate provided at the corresponding station, and a station centralized device of each station. A data receiving device that receives the aggregated entrance information via a communication line, and a number of passengers that calculates the number of passengers in each time zone between the stations based on the information on the entrance from each station received by the data receiving device. Calculating means, and operating number calculating means for calculating the number of operating trains in each time zone from the calculated number of riding so that the train occupancy rate becomes a value near the target occupancy rate predetermined for each time zone. Using an automatic ticket gate Diamond editing device.