JP3342321B2 - Card processing system on toll roads - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a toll road card processing system for processing tolls with a credit card or the like in a toll road toll collection process.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a toll collection system for toll roads, toll collection using cash or coupons is generally performed. Recently, introduction of a credit card system has been considered. By introducing a credit card system to the toll collection system on toll roads, it is not necessary to handle cash, so the toll collection process can be simplified, the burden on collection staff can be reduced, and service time can be improved.
The traffic congestion at the tollgate can be reduced.

[0003]

By introducing a credit card system into a toll road toll collection system as described above, the processing efficiency of toll collection can be improved, but the following fraud occurs. It is possible to do.

[0004] For example, when a toll collector on a toll road finds a credit card, it is possible for the user of the cash car processing to process the user as a credit card processing vehicle using the found credit card.

[0005] As described above, the user of the cash car processing is processed by using the found credit card,
A fraudulent misappropriation of cash by a collector may occur. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and even when a card system such as a credit card is introduced into a toll collection system for toll roads, card processing on toll roads which can exert a great effect on fraud prevention can be achieved. The purpose is to provide a system.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

(Claim 1) The present invention relates to a card processing system on a toll road for performing a toll collection process for a toll vehicle using a toll payment card, an information reading means for reading information recorded on the card, Means for receiving a toll for a toll vehicle based on the information read by the means, a card usage status storage table for storing the usage status of the card, and storing the card usage status based on the information read by the information reading means. Means for checking twice whether or not the same card has been used twice during the same working hours of the collection staff by referring to the table; Recording means.

(Claim 2) The present invention relates to a card processing system on a toll road for performing a toll collection process for a passing vehicle using a toll payment card, and information reading means for reading information recorded on the card. The same card is used twice during the same working hours of the collection staff by referring to the card usage status storage table storing the usage status of the card and the card usage status storage table based on the information read by the information reading means. Means for checking twice-working times, means for recording the number of times of working twice in a book relating to work of the collection staff, and if the checking means does not detect twice-working times, Perform the normal toll collection process using the card,
The system is characterized by comprising a toll collection means for stopping toll collection by the card when a double duty is detected and processing the cash vehicle.

[0008] As described above, the card use status is stored in the card use status storage table of the tally processing device, and the presence or absence of double duty by the same payee is checked. The number of times is recorded in the work schedule of the collection staff, and if necessary, the toll collection processing by card is stopped and the cash car processing is performed, so that the working state of the collection staff can be checked and useful for fraud prevention be able to.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of a toll road toll collection system to which the present invention is applied.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a road 2 at a tollgate.
In the booth 1, a booth collection machine 3, a highway card processing machine 4, a receipt issuing machine 5, and a journal printer 6 are installed. The booth collection device 3 is provided with, for example, a magnetic ticket processing device and a card processing device including a multi-type card reading device and a card type discriminating device. This card processing device has a function of reading stored data of various cards such as a magnetic card type credit card and a separate payment plate by a multi-type card reading device, and determining the type of the card by a card type determination device. The above-mentioned separate payment plate is issued by a toll road management company, and is a card adopting a format in which a carrier such as a truck pays a toll by postpayment, for example, and is equivalent to a credit card. In addition, above the approach road of the tollgate, a vehicle 7
A signal light 8 indicating permission of entry or prohibition of entry is provided. Further, a vehicle number measuring device 10 is provided at a position passing through the booth 1. The vehicle number measuring machine 10 includes a tread 11 buried in the road 2 and a vehicle separator 12 provided on the road side, and the measurement signal is sent to the booth receiver 3. Above the vehicle number measuring device 10, a signal light 13 for inhibiting entry of the vehicle from the opposite direction is provided.

A highway card processor 4, a receipt issuing machine 5, a journal printer 6, a vehicle number measuring machine 10, and the like are connected to the booth collection and reception unit 3. Further, the booth collection / reception device 3 is connected to a tallying processing device 14 installed in a toll machine room. The tallying processing device 14 includes a printer 15 and automatically performs a tallying process for each booth collection / reception device 3 provided in a plurality of lanes, and creates various ledgers such as a result of the tallying process and a work table of the collection staff. And output from the printer 15. In addition, the tallying processing device 14 includes a card usage status storage table and an invalid card check table as described in detail below. Data is exchanged via the Internet.

Next, a credit card system on a toll road will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is an overall system configuration diagram of the credit card system on a toll road.

As shown in FIG. 1, the booth receiver 3 is provided with a multi-card reader 21, a card type discriminator 22, a controller 23, and a data transmission controller 24. The display unit 26 is connected. The display unit 26 displays various guides, invalid credit cards, and the like. The above various card reader 21
Is provided with two magnetic heads (not shown) so that data magnetically recorded on the front surface or the back surface of the card can be read. The card type determination device 22 determines the type of the card from the data read by the multi-type card reader 21.

At present, the following three types of cards are in circulation as magnetic card type credit cards (including separate payment plates). (1) A magnetic stripe existing on the surface of a card (equivalent to a JIS-2 card).

(2) A magnetic stripe exists on the back side of the card, and a check code exists after the start code (JIS).
-1 card). (3) A magnetic stripe exists on the back side of the card, and there is no check code after the start code (equivalent to an ISO card).

The card type discriminating device 22 includes a plurality of types of cards, for example, JIS-2 card, JIS-1 card, IS
A card type table for determining an O card or the like is provided. The card type determination device 22 determines the card type of the data read by the multi-type card reader 21 with reference to the card type table, and outputs the determination result to the control unit 23. The control unit 23 processes the card data based on the above determination result, and determines whether the card is valid / invalid by data communication with the tabulation processing device 14.

The booth receiver 3 is not shown,
A toll ticket reader is provided for reading the magnetic recording data of the magnetic toll ticket issued at the entrance tollgate. The read data is input to the control unit 33, and the toll is calculated from the name of the entrance tollgate and the type of vehicle. The control unit 33 executes a toll collection process using a credit card, a separate payment plate, a highway card, or cash based on the calculated toll. In this case, the control unit 23 transmits and receives data to and from the tallying processing device 14 and executes a toll collection process using a card.
At this time, an inquiry is made as to whether the same card (credit card, separate payment plate, highway card) has been used twice within one working time of the collection staff, that is, an inquiry for twice working hours.

The tallying processing unit 14 has a card usage status storage table 31 and an invalid card check table 3
2, a control unit 33 and a data transmission control unit 34 are provided. The control unit 33 performs a tabulation process based on the data sent from the booth collection / reception device 3 and creates various book tables 35 such as a result of the tabulation process, the work table of the collection staff, and a credit company, a bank, for example. Data is exchanged with a management computer of a card management organization 36 such as a road management company via a communication line, and the card use status is stored in the card use status storage table 31. Then, if there is an inquiry from the booth collection machine 3 for twice duty, the same card must be used within one working time of the collection person.
Card use status storage table 31
And the result is returned to the booth receiver 3. Further, the control unit 33 stores a list of invalid cards periodically sent from the card management organization 36 in the invalid card check table 32, and checks invalid cards in response to an inquiry from the booth collection / reception device 3.

Next, a case in which the operation of the above-described embodiment is processed by a credit card for toll collection will be described with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG. At the toll booth, the toll collector receives a magnetic toll ticket and a credit card from the driver of the vehicle entering the toll booth, inserts a magnetic toll ticket into the toll ticket slot of the booth toll collection machine 3, and inserts a credit card into the card slot. Insert The booth collection device 3 reads the entrance toll booth name, the type of vehicle, and the like recorded on the magnetic toll ticket by the magnetic toll ticket processing device to calculate the toll. Further, the recording data of the credit card is read by the multi-type card reading device 21, the type of the card is determined by the card type determining device 22, and the determination result is output to the control unit 33. The control unit 33 processes the card data based on the determination result of the card type determination device 22 (Step A1).

In this case, the control unit 33 determines whether or not the recording data on the card has been read normally (step A).
2) If a reading error has occurred, the processing by the card is stopped and the processing is performed as a cash car (step A12). If it is determined in step A2 that the card has been read normally, then the validity of the credit card is checked (step A3). This credit card validity check is performed, for example, as follows.

(A) Referring to the card company determination table,
It is determined whether the card is issued by a pre-registered card company, and the validity of the card is checked.

(B) Check the check digit recorded on the credit card to determine whether the card is valid. (C) The validity of the card is checked by comparing the current date with the validity of the credit card.

If it is determined by the above card check that the card is invalid, the control unit 23 displays a "credit card invalid" message on the display unit 26 (step A4), and thereafter, executes the cash car processing. (Step A12).

If it is determined by the above card check that the card is valid, the control unit 23 inquires of the tally processing unit 14 about an invalid card (black list) (step A5).

When the booth collection device 3 inquires about an invalid card, the control unit 33 searches the invalid card check table 32 to check whether or not the inquired card number is recorded. I do. The contents of the invalid card check table 32 are updated by data periodically sent from the card management organization 36, and are always kept up to date. Then, the control unit 33 transmits the check result of the invalid card to the booth collection / reception device 3.

At this time, the control unit 23 of the booth receiver 3
It is determined whether or not the card is an invalid card based on the card check result sent from the tallying device 14 (step A6). If the card is invalid, a message "press invalid credit confirmation button" is displayed on the display unit 26 (step A7). In response to this display, the collection member presses the confirmation button (step A8), and collects the fee by cash (step A12).

If it is determined in step A6 that the card is not an invalid card, the control unit 23 makes an inquiry to the tallying processing unit 14 for two-time work (step A9).

When there is an inquiry from the booth collection / receipt unit 3 for work twice, the control unit 33 of the tally processing unit 14 determines whether or not the credit card has been used twice within one working time of the collection / acquisition staff. Is checked by the card use status storage table 31, and the result is returned to the booth collection / reception device 3.

The control unit 23 of the booth collection / receipt unit 3 determines whether or not to work twice in accordance with the response from the tallying processing unit 14 (step A10). (Step A
11).

If it is determined in step A10 that work is performed twice, the control unit 23 stops the processing by the credit card and displays on the display unit 26 so that the toll collection is performed in cash. . In response to this instruction, the collection member performs cash car processing (step A12).

In the above, the processing using a credit card has been described. In the case where the toll collection processing is performed using a separate payment plate or a highway card, a check for twice work is performed in the same manner as in the case of a credit card. In the case of twice, the processing by the card is stopped and the cash car is treated.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a work schedule. The main entries in the work schedule are, for example, tollgate name, creation date, work number. , Recipient No. , Lane No. , Working time start time, working time end time, number of units handled (cash processed by booth collection / separate payment / business / number of hikers / + data input device), number of passing vehicles, amount received (collection from data input device Entered received cash amount), Machine handling amount (Cash vehicle amount entered from data input machine, + Disabled person amount + additional amount), Disabled person amount (Disabled person handling amount), Separate payment amount (Separate payment plate usage amount), Creca usage amount There are (credit card use amount), hiker use amount (highway card use amount) and the like, and further, an item 41 for twice (work twice) is provided. In the item 41 for double payment, the number of times of double payment by a fee payment card such as a separate payment (separate payment plate), a credit card (credit card), and a hika (highway card) is recorded.

As described above, the card use status is stored in the card use status storage table of the tally processing device, and the presence or absence of double duty by the same payee is checked. By recording the number of times in a book relating to the work of the collection staff, and stopping the toll collection processing using the card and performing cash car processing, fraud by the collection staff can be prevented.

In the above-described embodiment, when the double duty is performed, the recording of the double duty is performed.
We stopped the toll collection process by card and treated it as a cash car, but in addition, for example, when working twice,
It is also possible to record only twice work hours and execute the charge collection process using the card as it is. That is, in the flowchart shown in FIG.
If it is determined that the number of times is 0, the work proceeds to step A11 as indicated by the broken line, and the processing by the credit card is executed as it is.

For example, in the case of a small toll booth in which one toll collection process is performed for both the up lane and the down lane using one booth collection unit, the same toll collection is carried out by a card for the same vehicle. There may be a case where the fee collection process is performed twice. In such a case, even if the work is performed twice, only the work schedule is recorded, and the charge collection process using the card is executed as it is. In this way, by recording the work twice in the work table, the work status of the collection staff can be checked, which can be used for fraud prevention.

[0036]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, in the toll collection process for toll roads, the card use status is stored in the card use status storage table of the tally processing device, and the same work is carried out by the same collection member. Check whether there is a multiplicity of credits, and if there is a double duty, record the number of times in the book concerning the work of the collection staff, and if necessary, stop the charge collection processing by card and process it with a cash car As a result, it is possible to check the work status of the collection staff, which can be used for fraud prevention.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a toll road toll collection system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall system configuration diagram of the toll road credit card system in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a card processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view showing an example of creating a work table in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Booth 2 Road 3 Booth collection machine 4 Highway card processing machine 5 Receipt issuing machine 14 Aggregation processing device 21 Multi-card reading device 22 Card type discrimination device 23 Control unit 24 Data transmission control unit 25 Keyboard 26 Display unit 31 Card usage status storage Table 32 Invalid card check table 33 Control unit 34 Data transmission control unit 35 Book table 36 Card management organization

Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-7-44740 (JP, A) JP-A-61-262988 (JP, A) JP-A-6-259630 (JP, A) JP-A-4-323792 (JP) JP-A-4-165589 (JP, A) JP-A-6-238183 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07B 15/00

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A card processing system on a toll road for performing a toll collection process for a passing vehicle using a toll payment card, wherein: an information reading means for reading information recorded on the card; Means for receiving a toll for a toll vehicle based on the information, a card usage status storage table storing the usage status of the card, and referring to the card usage status storage table based on the information read by the information reading means. Means for checking twice whether or not the same card has been used twice during the same working hours of the collection staff, and means for recording the number of times of the double working in the book relating to the work of the collection staff. A card processing system for a toll road, comprising: 2. A card processing system on a toll road for performing a toll collection process for a passing vehicle using a toll payment card, wherein: an information reading means for reading information recorded on the card; and a use status of the card is stored. The card use status storage table to be referred to, and the card use status storage table is referred to based on the information read by the information reading means, and the work to check whether the same card has been used twice during the same work time of the collection staff. A means for checking twice, a means for recording the number of times of work twice in a book relating to the work of the collection staff, and a normal charge collection process by the card if the check means does not detect the work for work twice. Is executed, and if it is detected that the work is performed twice, the toll collection with the card is stopped and the toll collection is performed by cash car processing. Card processing system in a toll road, characterized by comprising a stage, a.