JPH0264797A - Charge collecting and receiving system for toll road - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To pass through a toll road with being cashless and cardless by reading identifying information, which are added to a moving subject, and executing the automatic drawing of a passing charge with a bank on-line system. CONSTITUTION:An entrance terminal system 1 reads a number plate 6, which is fit to a vehicle 5 to come into the toll road, by an entrance optical reading device 7. Then, entrance place information are added and transmitted to a host system 3. On the other hand, an exit terminal system 2 reads the number plate 6 of the vehicle 5, which is going out from the toll road, by an exit optical reading device 8 and exit place information are added and transmitted to the system 3. Thus, the system 3 computes the passing charge by the information, which are stored in a file 9, from the systems 1 and 2 and retrieves a bank account to correspond to the owner of the behicle 5. Then, the automatic drawing is indicated to a bank on-line system 4. Accordingly, it is unnecessary to give and receive the charge at the exit of the toll road and the vehicle can pass the toll road with being cashless and cardless.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to toll road toll collection systems, and in particular, to technology that is effective when applied to cashless and cardless systems suitable for alleviating traffic congestion near toll gates. Regarding.

[Conventional technology]

In the current toll road toll collection system, for example, when entering a toll road, a card is handed to the staff at the entrance, and when exiting the toll road, the card is handed to the staff at the exit, and the card is read by a card reader. It is taken. The read data is then used to calculate tolls according to a preset toll system, and the system pays the toll to the attendant.

However, the current toll road toll collection system requires the issuance and storage of cards, and also requires measures against loss of cards and fraudulent acts by passersby.

Therefore, as a proposed toll road toll collection system,
For example, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-65381, the number of the car, the type of car, and the population or exit location output from the license plate recognition device installed at each population and each exit of the toll road. Based on the recognition signal, it is possible to detect which population a car is coming from and which exit it is trying to exit from, and based on this, the toll will be calculated and output according to the preset toll road toll system. It has become. The system is such that passersby pay the toll toll gate located at the exit of the toll road.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technology, no consideration is given to the collection of tolls at toll gates located at the exits of toll roads, and the collection of tolls causes congestion near the toll road exits. There is a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a toll road toll collection system that allows automatic withdrawal of toll tolls using a bank online system and is cashless and cardless.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a toll road toll collection system that allows vehicles to pass not only entrances but also exits of toll roads without stopping the vehicle, and alleviates congestion near the entrances and exits. It is in.

The above and other objects and novel features of the present invention will become apparent from the description of this specification and the accompanying drawings.

[Means to solve the problem]

A brief overview of typical inventions disclosed in this application is as follows.

That is, the toll road toll collection system of the present invention is a toll road toll management system that manages tolls for moving objects on a diagonal road. An entrance and exit terminal system that recognizes individual identification information and outputs it as recognition information, and a toll system for the moving object based on a toll system preset by the recognition information from the entrance and exit terminal system. a host system that calculates the toll, searches for a bank account corresponding to the moving object through a connected bank online system, and instructs automatic withdrawal of the calculated toll from the searched bank account. It is something.

[Effect]

According to the toll road toll collection system described above, toll tolls calculated based on a preset toll road toll system are automatically debited from the bank account corresponding to the identification information added to the moving object. This eliminates the need for toll collection at the exit of the toll road.

Moreover, since the identification information added to the moving object is instantly identified at the population and exit, there is no need for the moving object to temporarily stop at the entrance and exit.

〔Example〕

Fig. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing a toll road toll collection system which is an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a detailed diagram of a file which is a storage means of this embodiment, and Fig. 3 is a toll road toll road of this embodiment. It is a flowchart showing the operation of the toll collection system.

As is clear from FIG. 1, the outline of the toll road toll collection system of this embodiment is as follows: a population terminal system 1 that transmits recognition information at the entrance; an exit terminal system 2 that transmits recognition information at the exit; A host system 3 calculates the toll based on the population recognition information and exit recognition information sent from the system 1.2, searches for the corresponding bank account, and automatically debits the toll as instructed by the host system 3. It consists of a bank online system 4.

The entrance terminal system 1 is a vehicle entering the toll road (
connected to an entrance optical reader 7 that reads a license plate (identification information) 6 attached to a moving object) 5;
Population location information regarding the entrance where the entrance optical reader 7 is installed is added to the read identification information of the license plate 6 and transmitted to the host system 3 as population recognition information.

Here, as the entrance optical reading device 7, a system equipped with a TV left camera or an infrared TV camera can be used, and the image data of the license plate 6 taken by this camera is binarized and the license plate is It recognizes the numbers and symbols above 6.

Regarding the car type information described later, the size of the car 5 may be recognized from the number on the license plate 6, or the external shape of the car 5 may be recognized from the image m and compared with pre-sampled data. However, it may also be something that recognizes the manufacturer, model, etc.

On the other hand, the exit terminal system 2 includes an exit optical reader 8 similar to the artificial optical reader 7 that reads the license plate 6 attached to the vehicle 5 about to exit the toll road.
The exit optical reader 8 adds exit location information regarding the exit where the exit optical reader 8 is installed to the read identification information of the license plate 6, and transmits the information to the host system 3 as identification information at the exit.

In addition, the host system 3 connected to the population terminal system 1 and the exit terminal system 2 uses the population recognition information and exit recognition information sent from both terminal systems 1.2, the population, the exit, and the vehicle type of the vehicle 5. calculate the toll based on the toll road toll system set in advance, and further search for the bank account corresponding to the owner of the car 5,
The bank online system 4 is instructed to automatically withdraw money from the retrieved bank account.

Further, the bank online system 4 connected to the host system 3 automatically debits the toll fee calculated by the host system 3 from the searched bank account.

Further, the file 9, which is a storage means, has a storage area for number lO and population place information 11 as shown in FIG. The host system 3 searches for the identification information of number 10 in the population recognition information that matches the number 10 of the exit recognition information sent by the host system 3.
It is connected through a line 22.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained based on the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step 101, when a car 5 enters a toll road from an arbitrary entrance, the entrance optical reader 7 installed at the entrance reads the license plate 6 of the car 5, and The identification information is output to the entrance terminal system 1.

Then, in step 102, the identification information of the license plate 6 output to the entrance terminal system 1 includes the number 10 of the car 5 and various information on the car type, and the artificial optical reader 7 is installed. Population location information 11 regarding the entrance is added and transmitted to the host system 3 via the line 20 as entrance recognition information.

Furthermore, as step 103, this host system 3
The population S8 identification information sent to is inputted to the file 9 through the line 22 and stored in the number 10 and entrance location information 11 storage areas as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, in step 104, when the car 5 attempts to exit from an arbitrary exit, the exit optical reader 8 installed at the exit reads the license plate 6 of the car 5, and the identification information of the license plate 6 is It is output to the exit terminal system 2.

Then, in step 105, the identification information of the license plate 6 manually entered into this exit terminal system 2 includes the number 10 of the car 5 and each information of the car type.
Exit location information regarding the exit where the exit optical reader 8 is installed is added and transmitted to the host system 3 via the line 21 as exit recognition information.

At this time, the host system 3 determines in step 106 that the number lO of the car 5 which is about to exit from the toll road exit in the exit recognition information transmitted by the exit terminal system 2 is the same as that of the car 5 entering the toll road. The car 5 matching the number IO is searched for in the tooth area of the file 9 in which the population recognition information is stored.

Then, in step 107, based on the population recognition information and exit recognition information of the car 5 found by this search,
The toll is calculated based on the toll road toll system that is preset according to the entrance, exit, and vehicle type of the car 5. Furthermore, in step 108, the toll fee is calculated based on the toll road toll system that is set in advance according to the entrance, exit, and vehicle type of the car 5. A bank account is searched, and the bank online system 4 is instructed to automatically withdraw the toll from the searched bank account through the line 23.

Then, the bank online system 4 performs step 109.
As a result, the toll fee is automatically debited from the bank account retrieved by the host system 3.

As described above, for each car 5 that enters the toll road and exits from the toll road, the toll fee is automatically debited from the bank account corresponding to the owner of each car 5.

This makes it possible to provide a cashless and cardless system suitable for alleviating traffic congestion near toll gates on toll roads.

As above, the invention made by the present inventor has been specifically explained based on Examples, but it should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the Examples and can be modified in various ways without departing from the gist thereof. Not even.

For example, regarding the automatic withdrawal of toll tolls, we have explained the case where the toll fee is settled immediately using the bank's online system, but this is not limited to this, and it may be possible to settle the toll fee on a monthly or other basis, similar to telephone charges, etc. The same effect can be obtained.

〔Effect of the invention〕

A brief explanation of the effects obtained by typical inventions disclosed in this application is as follows.

(1) At the toll road exit, in order to automatically debit the toll fee calculated based on the preset toll road toll system from the bank account corresponding to the identification information added to the moving object. There is no need to collect tolls, so you can pass without cash or with a card.

(2) Since the identification information added to the moving object is instantly recognized at the population and exit, there is no need for the moving object to pause at the population and exit, so the population of the toll road is It is possible to alleviate traffic congestion in the vicinity and near the exit.

(3) According to (1) above, there is no need for personnel involved in toll collection at the exit of the toll road, so it is possible to reduce the number of personnel involved in toll road operation and, by extension, toll road operation costs.

(41, @ note (2), since it is recognized by the identification information added to the moving object, there is no need to mount any special equipment on the moving object, so it can be realized without modifying the moving object. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing a toll road toll collection system that is an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a detailed diagram of a file that is a storage means of this embodiment, and Figure 3 is a toll road of this embodiment. It is a flowchart showing the operation of the toll collection system. l... Population terminal system, 2... Exit terminal system, 3... Host system, 4... Bank online system, 5... ), 6... License plate... Population optical reader , 8 reading device, 9... file, 11... entrance location information, 23... line.・Car (moving object (information by R), 7... Exit optical type % type % Figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A toll road toll management system that manages tolls for moving objects on toll roads, which is installed at the entrance/exit of the toll road and recognizes individual identification information added to the moving objects. The entrance and exit terminal system outputs recognition information, and the toll fee for the moving object is calculated based on the toll system preset by the recognition information from the entrance and exit terminal system, and the toll fee is calculated through the connected bank online system. A toll road toll collection system comprising: a host system that searches for a bank account corresponding to the moving object and instructs automatic withdrawal of the calculated toll from the searched bank account.