JPH01123361A - Reservation ticket issuing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make the management of a ticket sheet that is a kind of securities unnecessary by substituting the write of information to secure a seat on a personal card for a ticket which certifies the reservation of the seat. CONSTITUTION:A reservation device 2 performs the reservation of the seat in a service provided with the seats. An audit device 3 receives the seat reserved by the reservation device 2 with a trip schedule from a center device 1 as seat reservation data, and writes them on the card 5, and performs the accounting of a toll. The card 5 on which the seat reservation data is written is read by a seat designation device 6, and is transferred to the center device 1. The center device 1 performs the allocation of the seats based on the seat reservation data, and transfers seat data to the seat designation device 6, then, seat designation 8 is issued. By performing the above operation, the seat reservation data handled by the audit device 3 is stored in the card 5, and is delivered to the seat designation device 6, thereby, a seat reservation ticket issuing system which unrequires the ticket sheet can be realized.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a seat reservation/ticketing system using a card, and in particular, to a seat reservation/ticket issuing system using a card. Regarding the system to do.

[Conventional technology]

Services related to seat selection generally include reservation services, which involve determining the itinerary and date, etc., and securing seats, and settlement services, which certifies that a seat has been secured and settles the seat usage fee. It can be divided into seat selection work, which determines the position to be used for the seat. For example, a train seat reservation system for railways is a system that performs payment operations and seat reservation operations at the same time. That is, in this system, by specifying the date, itinerary, train name, etc. in which the seat is to be used, the central device specifies the seat reservation for the train, issues a seat reservation ticket, and settles the fare. In contrast, aircraft ticketing systems secure seats in the reservation process, and after the reservation process is completed, a ticket is issued as a proof that the seat has been secured, and the fare is settled using the ticket. It is carried out. In the seat selection service, when boarding an aircraft for which a seat has been reserved after the transaction is completed, a boarding pass, which is a seat reservation ticket, is issued in exchange for a flight ticket at the airport, and the seat is designated.

A system that separates reservation operations and ticketing operations was developed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 1983.
This is stated in Publication No. 114965, but this is because the above-mentioned clearing operation and seat selection operation are performed on the same device.
No consideration was given to application to systems such as airline ticket issuing systems in which seat selection operations and payment operations are performed separately.

Also, an example of using a card as a recording medium is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1986-
Examples of using the card as a data storage device are described in publications such as No. 196876 and Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 59-22167, but there is no mention of using the card as a substitute for a ticket. do not have.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Traditionally, ticketing systems have used paper as the medium for fare settlement. Therefore, the paper becomes a security, and there is a problem in that travel agencies and the like must manage the paper in order to prevent unauthorized use and loss of the paper.

An object of the present invention is to provide a seat reservation ticket issuing system that does not require paper management by using a card that can be used repeatedly in place of paper in ticket issuing operations.

[Means for solving problems]

The above purpose is to write the seat reservation data outputted by the payment process onto a card, read it in the seat selection process, and issue a seat reservation ticket in a system where the payment process and the seat selection process are separated.

This is achieved by having each passenger hold the card and use it repeatedly.

[Effect]

The reservation device secures seats on flights that have seats.

The settlement device receives the seat secured by the reservation device along with the itinerary as seat reservation data from the central device, writes it on the card, and settles the fare.

The card on which the seat reservation data is written is read by the seat selection device and transferred to the central device. The central device allocates seats based on the seat reservation data, transfers the seat data to the seat reservation device, and issues a seat reservation ticket.

As a result of the above, the seat reservation data handled by the payment device is stored in the card and handed over to the seat selection device.
This is a seat reservation ticketing system that does not require paper.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG. 1 as an airline ticket reservation/issuance system.
A reservation device 2 consisting of a display device, a central device 1 that manages aircraft seats, etc. based on data input from the reservation table @2, and a card handling device that uses the seat reservation data output from the central device 1 as card data. A payment device 3 that writes the card data through the card 4 and settles the fee, and a card handling device 7 that writes the card data written to the card 5.
The card data is read through the card and transferred to the central device 1, and the seat reservation ticket 8 is read based on the seat data output by the central device 1.
It consists of a seat designation device 6 that outputs.

Usually /il? The computing device 3 consists of a keyboard and a display, and is also used as the reservation device 2. The card is a magnetic card, an IC card, or the like, on which data can be rewritten and can be used repeatedly, and the card handling devices 4 and 7 are readers and writers of the card. Seat selection device 6
consists of a keyboard, display and boarding pass printer.

Next, the operation will be explained.

When a passenger makes a reservation for a flight ticket, he or she enters the itinerary and the like into the central device 1 using the reservation device 2 at a reservation center, travel agency, etc., and makes the reservation for the flight ticket. For example, if your itinerary is a round trip between Tokyo and Osaka and the return date and time is not fixed, you will make a reservation specifying the date, time and flight number for the outbound trip, and for the return trip, you will make a reservation without specifying the date, time and flight number, which is called "open". Consider the case where a reservation is made only by

Hereinafter, explanation will be given according to the above example. The third operation of the clearing device
The operation of the seat selection device is shown in FIG. 4, and the operation of the central device is shown in FIG.

When purchasing a round trip ticket between Tokyo and Osaka, a passenger enters the date, flight number, etc. into the reservation device 2 at an agent, etc., and secures a seat for the flight number on the required itinerary. When a reservation is made, the card 5 distributed to the passenger in advance is prepared, and the payment device 3 requests the central device 1 to output seat reservation data. As shown in FIG. 3, the payment device 3 requests the central device 1 for seat reservation data secured by the reservation device 2 using the reservation number. The central device 1 searches for data corresponding to the reservation number, as shown in FIG. 5, and transfers it to the settlement table W3 as seat reservation data. When the payment device 3 receives the seat reservation data, the payment device 3 sends the card handling device 4. The seat reservation data is written to the passenger's card 5 via the card 5. FIG. 2 shows an example of seat reservation data in the case of the above example. In addition, the passenger only determines the itinerary and the date and time.

When making an "open" reservation with an undetermined flight number, the data written to the card is initially written as the flight number undetermined, but once the itinerary is determined, the "open" status is canceled using the payment device 3. . In this case, the payment device 3 inputs the date, flight number, etc. as shown in the open process in FIG.
Then, it confirms that the itinerary booked as "open" has been written, and inquires of the central device 1 whether there are any seats available for the flight number. As shown in FIG. 5, the central device 1 transfers seat reservation data for the flight number to the payment device 3 if there are vacant seats on the flight. The payment device 3 adds the date and flight number to the open data based on the seat reservation data transferred from the central device 1, thereby creating a seat reservation data in the same format as the seat reservation data from a reservation with a regular flight number. Data.

When a passenger wants to board a booked flight, he or she goes to the airport and receives a seat assignment for the flight. In this case, the seat designation device 6 is used. As shown in FIG. 4, the seat selection device 6 reads the card 5 handed over by the passenger via the card handling device 7, and at the same time, the operator inputs the flight number for which the seat should be specified. The seat selection device 6 checks whether the specified flight number is included in the card data, and if the flight number is written in the card as seat reservation data,
The central device 1 is requested to allocate seats.

The central device 1 allocates seats as shown in FIG. 5, and outputs seat designation data to the seat designation device 6. The seat designation device 6 outputs a seat reservation ticket 8 based on the seat designation data transferred from the central device 1, and erases the seat reservation data in the card 5.

In this example, the reservation device, ticket issuing device, and seat selection device are each explained as separate devices, but if the processing times are different,
Even if the above devices are the same device, the same effect is produced.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, instead of a sheet of paper indicating that a seat has been secured, seat reservation information is written on a personal card that can be used repeatedly, and instead of a ticket piece that proves that a seat has been secured. This eliminates the need to manage ticket sheets, which are securities, and provides an easy-to-handle seat reservation ticket issuing system.

Also, since a card is used instead of a ticket piece, multiple ticket pieces/
Also, when information is added or rewritten, the data on the card is added or rewritten, so there is no need to waste paper such as reissuing tickets. Since this is not done, there is no need for a printer to print on paper, which also has the effect of improving installation space.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention.
3, 4, and 5 are flowcharts of the operation of the apparatus according to the present invention. 1... Central device, 2... Reservation device, 3... Settlement device, Akira 10 Kan 2 Miyu 4 field departure, 5' prisoner

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A reservation device that makes reservations for itineraries, etc., and a payment device that outputs the data reserved by the reservation device and settles the fee;
A seat selection device that issues seat reservation tickets for flights used in the itinerary, and a seat reservation device that accepts reservation data input from the reservation device, performs seat reservation and seat allocation processing, and transmits the itinerary data and seat reservation device to the payment device. It consists of a central device that transfers seat data to the seat management system and performs seat management operations, and is capable of writing and reading data in a seat reservation ticketing system in which the payment device and the seat selection device are used at least at different times. A card handling device that writes multiple itineraries and writes/reads cards using cards that can be used repeatedly is connected to the payment device and the seat selection device, and the contents reserved by the reservation device are The payment device requests the central device to write the seat reservation data output to the card, and when necessary, the seat selection device transfers the seat reservation data in the card to the central device, and the seat assigned by the central device is transferred. A reserved ticket issuing system characterized in that a seat assigning device issues data as a reserved seat ticket.