JPH05142020A - System for detecting and processing state of congestion in car - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable quick and quantitative execution of service for passengers by a method wherein the weight of each car of a train is detected, the classification of each car is discriminated and the state of congestion in each car is calculated from them and others and indicated for the passengers. CONSTITUTION:When a train arrives at a station, a car weight detecting device 1 detects the weight of each car and transfers it to a processing device 4. Information on a car classification mark 2 discriminated by a car discriminating device 3 is also transferred to the processing device 4. Using a conversion table read in from an external storage device 6 beforehand, the processing device 4 converts the information on the mark 2 into information on the empty weight of the car and calculates the number of passengers on each car from this information and the information on the weight of each car. Moreover, the processing device 4 compares the number of passengers with the passenger capacity of each car obtained from the external storage device 6 and determines the degree of congestion. According to this constitution, it is possible to classify the degree of congestion by color, to display it at a ticket gate or a position corresponding to each car and to make the passengers select cars of lower degrees of congestion.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention uses a vehicle congestion situation detection system and information relating to the vehicle congestion situation detected by the system to provide guidance / notification to a customer, or
The present invention relates to a vehicle congestion situation processing system which is used to create statistical data which is the basis of an operation plan for vehicle operators.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a device for measuring the weight of a vehicle such as a truck has been put into practical use as disclosed in, for example, JP-A-63-240689. However, this type of measuring device or system uses the result of the measurement at the measuring point.

[0003]

That is, the above-mentioned prior art has not taken into consideration the fact that the result of the above-mentioned measurement is used at another point at that time.
However, if such information can be transmitted, for example,
By notifying the result of measurement at one point (station) to another point (next stop station) immediately like the situation of train congestion on the railroad, a vehicle with a low congestion level can be used for passengers in advance at the next stop station. It is possible to obtain the effect of being useful for guiding the user. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances,
Its purpose is to provide a vehicle congestion situation detection system for quantitatively detecting the vehicle congestion situation and guidance / notification to the user using the information about the vehicle congestion situation detected by the system, or the vehicle operator side. The purpose is to provide a vehicle congestion situation processing system that creates statistical materials that are the basis of the operation plan of the.

[0004]

The above object of the present invention is obtained from means for detecting the weight of each vehicle of a train installed at a stop station, means for identifying the type of each vehicle, and each means. A vehicle congestion situation detection system having means for processing information to calculate a congestion situation for each vehicle, and
This is achieved by a vehicle congestion situation processing system characterized by converting the information on the vehicle congestion situation obtained by the detection system into information indicating the congestion degree of each vehicle and displaying it to the customer.

[0005]

In the system according to the present invention, the congestion status is measured for each vehicle that composes the train, and this is widely used by displaying it to the passengers and using it as statistical data. The effect is that services to customers can be provided promptly and quantitatively.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a main configuration of a vehicle congestion situation detecting system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a vehicle weight detection device provided in correspondence with a vehicle stop position at a station, and 2 is a vehicle type mark added to the vehicle, which serves as information indicating the own weight of the vehicle as described later. . 3 is a vehicle identification device for detecting the vehicle type mark 2; 4 is a processing device that performs various calculations described later; 5 is an output device that outputs the calculation result by the processing device 4; 6 is the above vehicle identification device 3 It stores a conversion table or the like for obtaining the vehicle weight from the vehicle type mark 2 detected by, and also shows an external storage device for accumulating the calculation result by the processing device 4. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a method of outputting information from the output device 5, and shows a broadcasting device 7 to be performed at its own station and another station (a stop next to the train) via a line control device (not shown). Guide to be used, guide by the list type (large size) display device 9 as shown in FIG. 3, or
In addition to the guidance for each vehicle by the small display device 8 that corresponds to the stop position of each vehicle, a statistical list output from the printer for a certain period of time is provided.

The operation of the system of the present embodiment constructed as described above will be described below with reference to the operation flow chart shown in FIG. When the train arrives at the station, the vehicle weight detection device 1 detects the weight of each vehicle and transfers it to the processing device 4 (step 2
1). Further, the vehicle type mark 2 detected by the vehicle identification device 3
Information of the above is transferred to the processing device 4 (step 22). The processing device 4 uses the conversion table read in advance from the external storage device 6 to convert the information of the vehicle type mark 2 detected by the vehicle identification device 3 into the information of the own weight of the vehicle (step 2
3) Based on this and the weight information for each vehicle, the riding weight for each vehicle
(Number of passengers) is calculated (step 24). Furthermore, the processing device 4
Displays the weight (number of passengers) obtained above in the external storage device 6
It is divided by the information about the capacity of each vehicle that has been read in advance to obtain the congestion degree (step 25). Then, the result is displayed by a predetermined color, for example, the degree of congestion.
150% or more is red, 100 to 150% is yellow, and 100% or less is blue, and is displayed around the ticket gates by the large display device shown in FIG. The small display device 8 is used to properly display each vehicle (step 2).
6). According to the above-described embodiment, it is possible to obtain the effect that the train passenger can select a vehicle with a low congestion degree by referring to any of the above-mentioned information displays.

The above-mentioned various displays may be performed at the station where the train arrives, but it is effective to transmit the information to the next stop station of the train and display the information via a line or the like.
In this case, the station staff at the next stop of the train can positively guide the passenger to a vehicle with a low congestion level. In addition, the above-mentioned information is sequentially accumulated in the external storage device 6 and is output to the statistical list output device (printer) 10 at regular intervals, so that the distribution of the congestion degree of each train, It is possible to obtain various statistical materials such as changes in the congestion degree over time, and it is possible to suitably use them for creating statistical materials that are the basis of the operation plan on the vehicle operator side. Needless to say, the above-mentioned embodiment shows one example of the present invention, and the present invention should not be limited to this. For example, step 25 above
Instead of the process of obtaining the congestion degree in (3), it is also possible to obtain the boarding rate of passengers in the entire train and display the congestion degree by color.

[0009]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a vehicle congestion situation detection system for quantitatively detecting a vehicle congestion situation and a customer using information about the vehicle congestion situation detected by the system. This has the remarkable effect of realizing a vehicle congestion situation processing system in which guidance / notification to, or creation of statistical data that forms the basis of an operation plan on the vehicle operator side can be realized.

[0010]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a main configuration of a vehicle congestion situation detection system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a method of outputting information from the output device 5 in the system of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a specific example of a method of outputting information from an output device 5.

FIG. 4 is an operation flow chart showing the operation of the system of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Vehicle weight detection device, 2: Vehicle type mark added to the vehicle, 3: Vehicle identification device, 4: Processing device, 5: Output device, 6: External storage device, 7: Broadcast device, 8: Small display Device, 9: list type (large size) display device, 10: statistical list output device.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A congestion situation for each vehicle by means for detecting the weight of each vehicle of a train installed at a stop station, means for identifying the type of each vehicle, and information obtained from each means for processing A vehicle congestion situation detection system having means for calculating. 2. The calculating means has a function of calculating the weight of each vehicle by referring to a vehicle type-vehicle weight comparison table based on the information obtained by the vehicle type identifying means. The vehicle congestion situation detection system according to claim 1, wherein the system is provided. 3. The information on the vehicle congestion situation obtained by the vehicle congestion situation detection system according to claim 1 or 2 is converted into information indicating the congestion degree of each vehicle and displayed to the customer. Vehicle congestion situation processing system. 4. Information indicating the congestion degree of each vehicle is
4. The vehicle congestion situation processing system according to claim 3, wherein the system is displayed to a user at a stop next to the train. 5. A vehicle congestion situation processing, characterized in that information on a vehicle congestion situation obtained by the vehicle congestion situation detection system according to claim 1 or 2 is continuously collected and statistically processed. system.