JPH05108916A - Automatic toll collecting device for expressway - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an automatic toll collecting device for expressway capable of collecting an expressway rate without a toll collector, cancelling the traffic congestion due to the troubling exchange of money at the tollgate for expressway and securing a smooth flow of transportation. CONSTITUTION:In an entry gate 27 of the tollgate for expressway, an on-vehicle antenna 16 receives an ID signal at the entry of the tollgate for expressway and temporarily stores from where the vehicle enters in the expressway. In an exit gate 28, the antenna 16 sends a vehicle ID signal and the entry ID signal, and the receiver of an exit ID signal processing device 2j installed at the tollgate receives and recognizes the signal. Thus, the expressway rate is automatically calculated and processed by a rate computing device using the information of the exit of the expressway and the ID signal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention uses a transmission / reception device installed at the entrance of a highway toll gate to enable automatic payment of a highway toll based on a vehicle ID signal transmitted from a vehicle. The present invention relates to an automatic payment device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, highway toll payments are made by hand at a highway toll gate with a vehicle driver and a highway toll collector. When the above work is actually analyzed, first, the vehicle decelerates before the toll booth, and the vehicle is brought to a stop in front of the box where the toll collector collects. afterwards,
Reach out of the driver's window and exchange money with the expressway toll collector. After this, the vehicle driver quickly accelerates and leaves the front of the box. Then, the following car stops repeatedly in front of the box. In some cases, such as a prepaid card or a coupon ticket, you can save money by paying in advance, but even in these cases, stop the vehicle once, pay the fee, and then restart the vehicle. It is necessary to perform the operation.

[0003]

In the above conventional method,
The toll collector must be present in the toll box 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The work is a monotonous work of repeating the presentation of fees, the receipt of fees, and the delivery of change. In addition, it is a work in a poor environment where the exhaust gas concentration from the automobile is extremely high on the highway. For this reason, it is an occupation for which the effects of a shortage of manpower are expected in the future, and an urgent response is required.

In addition, the vehicle driver needs to prepare a small amount of money in order to exchange the charges quickly. Moreover, there is a limit to the reduction of money transfer processing time, and when traffic volume increases,
It is one of the factors that block traffic flow and cause traffic congestion.

On the other hand, even in a prepaid system such as a prepaid card or a coupon ticket, although the time and money for sending and receiving money can be saved, the car is temporarily stopped for the work, which also hinders the traffic flow and causes traffic congestion. Become.

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem and is capable of collecting highway tolls without the intermediary of a toll collector, and also temporarily stops the vehicle for the transfer of highway tolls. It is an object of the present invention to obtain an automatic highway fare automatic payment device that does not need to be provided, does not cause traffic congestion due to traffic blockage, and can secure a smooth traffic flow.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An automatic expressway toll payment device according to the present invention comprises a first to nth entrance ID signal processing device provided at each expressway toll gate entrance and each expressway toll gate exit. First to nth exit ID signal processing devices provided in the vehicle, a vehicle ID signal transmission device having an antenna mounted on each vehicle, and a fee payment process for separately charging and paying a highway fee to the vehicle driver And a device.

[0008]

According to the present invention, at the entrance of a highway toll gate, a vehicle-mounted antenna receives an ID signal of the highway toll gate, and the vehicle side temporarily stores where the vehicle got on the highway. , The vehicle ID signal and the expressway toll gate entrance ID signal are transmitted from the vehicle-mounted antenna, the signal is received and recognized from the receiver installed at the toll gate, and the highway exit information and the ID signal are used. An expressway toll is automatically calculated by the toll calculator and electronically settled.

[0009]

【Example】

Example 1. Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1a to 1n are first to nth entrance ID signal processing devices provided at the entrances of the respective expressway toll gates,
2a to 2n are the 1st to 1st provided at the exits of each toll gate
The n-th exit ID signal processing device, 3 is a vehicle ID signal transmitting device mounted on each vehicle, and 4 is a charge payment processing device for separately charging and settling a highway charge to the vehicle driver.

FIG. 2 shows the i-th inlet I in the above embodiment.
It is a detailed view of the D signal processing device 1i. 5j is an i-th entrance place ID data generating device for generating entrance place ID data given to each expressway tollgate entrance, and 6i is an entrance place I
The i-th entrance coding device for coding the entrance place ID data generated from the D data generating device 5i, 7i is the i-th entrance transmitter for transmitting the place ID data coded by the entrance coding device 6i, 8i Is the i-th entrance transmit antenna.

FIG. 3 shows the jth outlet I in the above embodiment.
It is a detailed view of the D signal processing device 2j. 9j is a jth receiving antenna, 10j is a jth receiver, and 11j is a receiver 10.
a j-th decoding device for decoding the received signal received by j, 12
j is a j-th expressway charge calculation device that calculates a expressway charge from the decoded signal decoded by the decoding device 11j;
j is the jth exit coding device for coding the highway toll calculated by the highway toll calculation device 12j, 14j is the jth exit transmitter for transmitting the signal output from the coding device 13j, and 15j is It is the jth exit transmitting antenna.

FIG. 4 is a detailed view of the vehicle ID signal transmission device 3. 16 is a vehicle-mounted antenna, 17 is a receiver, 18
Is a decoding device for decoding the signal output from the receiver 17,
19 is a place ID memory for storing a place ID signal decoded by the decrypting device 18, 20 is a vehicle ID generating device for generating a vehicle ID, and 21 is a place ID memory 19 and a vehicle ID.
A signal synthesizing device for synthesizing signals from the signal generating device 20,
Reference numeral 22 is an encoding device that encodes the signal output from the signal combining device 21, 23 is a transmitter that transmits the signal output from the encoding device 22, and 24 is a control device that controls the receiver 17 and the transmitter 18. , 25 are display devices.

Prior to the detailed description of the embodiment, FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the apparatus of the present invention. In FIG. 5, 1i, 2
j and 4 are the same as in FIG. 26 is an ID signal transmitting vehicle having the vehicle ID signal transmitting device 3, 27 is an expressway entrance gate, and 28 is an expressway exit gate.

First, at the entrance of an expressway, the ID signal transmission vehicle 26 receives the entrance place ID signal transmitted from the entrance ID signal processing device 1i and stores the entrance place ID signal in the place ID memory 19. On the other hand, at the highway exit, I
The entrance location ID signal and the vehicle ID signal transmitted from the D signal transmission vehicle 26 are received by the exit location ID signal processing device 2j. The exit ID signal processing device 2j calculates a charge and transmits the charge data to the ID signal transmission vehicle 26, while sending the charge data to the charge payment processing device 4. In the toll payment processing device 4, the vehicle driver is separately charged an expressway toll,
Settle accounts such as bank withdrawals.

Next, a detailed description of the first embodiment will be given. First, the entrance location ID signal generated by the entrance location ID signal generating apparatus 5i at the expressway entrance toll gate is encoded by the encoding apparatus 6i.
Coded by the transmitter 7i and the transmitting antenna 8i
Sent from. On the other hand, the entrance place ID signal received by the receiver 17 via the vehicle-mounted antenna 16 is decoded by the decoding device 18 and stored in the place ID memory 19. Next, at the highway exit toll gate, the entrance location ID signal stored in the location ID memory 19 and the vehicle ID signal generated by the vehicle ID signal generator 20
After being combined by 1 and encoded by the encoder 22, the transmitter 23 and the vehicle-mounted antenna 16 transmit to the exit location ID signal processor 2j under the control of the controller 24.

The entrance location ID signal and the vehicle ID signal received by the receiving antenna 9j and the receiver 10j are decoded by the decoding device 11j and enter the charge calculation device 12j. The fare calculation device 12j calculates a highway fare from the entrance location ID signal and outputs it along with the vehicle ID signal to the fare payment processing device 4 as fare data, and at the same time, outputs it along with the vehicle ID signal to the encoding device 13j. The expressway toll data and the vehicle ID signal encoded by the encoding device 13j are transmitted to the ID signal transmitting vehicle 26 by the transmitter 14j and the transmitting antenna 15j. The expressway toll data and the vehicle ID signal received by the vehicle-mounted antenna 16 and the receiver 17 are decoded by the decoding device 18 and the vehicle ID signal matches the own vehicle ID display device 2
The charge is displayed on 5. Further, the contents of the place ID memory 19 are erased, and the transmission of the entrance place ID signal and the vehicle ID signal is stopped.

Embodiment 2. FIG. 6 is a detailed view of the i-th entrance ID signal processing device 1i according to the second embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 7 is a detailed diagram of the j-th exit ID signal processing device 2i in the second embodiment. Also in the second embodiment, the first to nth entrance ID signal processing devices 1a to 1n provided at the entrances of the respective expressway toll gates, and the first to nth exit ID signals provided at the exits of the respective expressway toll gates The processing devices 2a to 2n, a vehicle ID signal transmission device 3 mounted on each vehicle, and a fee payment processing device 4 for separately charging and settling a highway toll for a vehicle driver, have a basic configuration and basic operation. Same as the embodiment. Therefore, only a detailed view of the entrance ID signal processing device and a detailed view of the exit ID signal processing device having a changed portion are shown.

29i is the i-th entrance vehicle detection radar, 30
i is the i-th entrance license plate recognition device, 31j is the j-th exit vehicle detection radar, 32j is the j-th transmission timing generation device that generates the timing when the vehicle transmits an ID signal, and 33j is the j-th exit license plate It is a recognition device.

Next, the detailed operation of the second embodiment will be described. First, the presence of a vehicle at the entrance location is detected by the vehicle detection radar 29i, and the signal is sent to the transmitter 7i.
As a result, the entrance location ID signal is transmitted to the detected vehicle. The entrance location ID signal is processed in the same procedure as in the first embodiment. Further, when the entrance license plate recognition device 30i receives the vehicle detection signal, it recognizes the license plate of the vehicle. The image data thus obtained is sent to the fee payment processor 4 together with various data such as the date and the passage gate ID. On the other hand, at the exit, first, the presence of a vehicle is detected by the vehicle detection radar 31j,
The signal is sent to the transmission timing generator 32j, and the timing signal generated by the transmission timing generator 32j is sent from the transmitter 14j to the vehicle detected by the vehicle detection radar 31j. At the same time, the timing is also sent to the receiver 10j, so that the signal can be synchronized with the signal sent from the vehicle.

On the other hand, the vehicle passing under the exit gate receives the timing signal by the antenna 16 and the receiver 17 and sends the timing signal to the control unit 24. The control device 24 controls the transmitter 23 according to the timing of the transmission. Entrance location ID signal and vehicle I transmitted by this
The D signal is processed in the same procedure as in the first embodiment.
When the exit license plate recognition device 33j receives the vehicle detection signal, it recognizes the license plate of the vehicle.
The video data thus obtained is sent to the fee payment processing device 4 together with various data such as the date and the passage gate ID as in the entrance gate.

This data is used as evidence data for a person who does not pay the charge, evidence data for illegally passing a vehicle that does not transmit an ID signal, and the like. In addition, this data will be deleted as soon as the payment and penalties are collected.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the device capable of collecting the expressway toll by using the ID signal transmitted from the vehicle is constructed, the toll can be collected without the intervention of the toll collector. It is possible, and it becomes a measure for labor cost, labor shortage, etc.
Further, an automatic highway toll payment device can be obtained which does not require a primary stop of a vehicle for the transfer of highway tolls and can secure a smooth traffic flow without causing traffic congestion due to the associated traffic interruption.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an entrance location ID signal processing device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an exit location ID signal processing device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a vehicle ID signal transmission device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an entrance location ID signal processing device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an exit location ID signal processing device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a 1st entrance ID signal processing apparatus 1i i entrance ID signal processing apparatus 1n n entrance ID signal processing apparatus 2a 1st exit ID signal processing apparatus 2j j exit ID signal processing apparatus 2n n exit ID signal processing device 3 Vehicle ID signal processing device 4 Expressway toll payment processing device 5i i-th entrance location ID data generating device 6i i-th entrance coding device 7i i-th entrance transmitter 8i i-th entrance transmission antenna 9j jth reception antenna 10j jth receiver 11j jth decoding device 12j jth highway toll calculation device 13j jth exit coding device 14j jth exit transmitter 15j jth exit transmission antenna 16 Vehicle-mounted antenna 17 Receiver 18 Decoding device 19 Place ID memory 20 Vehicle ID generator 21 Signal synthesizer 22 Encoding device 23 Transmitter 24 Control device 25 Display device 26 ID signal transmission vehicle 27 Expressway entrance gate 28 Expressway exit gate 29i Entrance vehicle detection radar 30i Entrance license plate recognition device 31j Exit vehicle detection radar 32j Timing generation device 33j Exit license plate recognition device

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A first to nth generating an entrance location ID signal.
Entrance location ID signal generator, first to nth entrance coding apparatus for coding the entrance location ID signal generated from the entrance location ID signal generator, and location ID data coded by the entrance coding apparatus The first to nth entrance transmitters, and the entrance transmission antennas.
D signal processing device, first to n-th receiving antennas, first to first
Nth receiver, 1st to nth decoding device for decoding the received signal received by the receiver, 1st to nth charge calculation for calculating an expressway toll from the decoded signal decoded by the decoding device Device, first to nth exit coding devices for coding the highway toll calculated by the toll calculation device, first to nth signals for transmitting signals output from the exit coding device
1st to nth exit ID signal processing devices each having an exit transmitter and first to nth exit transmission antennas, a vehicle-mounted antenna, a receiver, and a decoding device for decoding a signal output from the receiver A location ID memory for storing a location ID signal decoded by the decryption apparatus, a vehicle ID signal generation apparatus for generating a vehicle ID signal, the location ID memory and the vehicle I
Vehicle ID having a signal synthesizing device for synthesizing the signals from the D signal generating device, an encoding device for encoding the signal output from the signal synthesizing device, and a transmitter for transmitting the signal output from the encoding device An automatic highway fare payment device comprising: a signal transmission device and a highway fare payment processing device for separately charging a vehicle driver with the fare calculated by the fare calculation device. 2. A vehicle detection radar and a license plate recognition device are added to the entrance ID signal processing device, and a vehicle detection radar and a transmission timing generation device for generating a timing at which the vehicle transmits an ID signal to the exit ID signal processing device. By adding an exit license plate recognition device and giving a timing for the vehicle to send an ID signal from the exit ID signal processing device, the ID signal can be transmitted and received in synchronization and the license plate of the vehicle detected by the vehicle detection radar can be displayed. The automatic highway toll payment device according to claim 1, characterized in that the image data is recognized and sent together with various data to the toll payment device as highway usage certificate data.