JPH0554218A - Toll road toll collection system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the labor and time at a tollgate by installing toll road toll collection system at the entrance/exit way of a toll road, automatically recognizing the number of a vehicle passing the entrance/exit way, finding a travel section from the vehicle number and calculating a toll, and sending information on it to a bank. CONSTITUTION:A number read means 1 sends vehicle passage information on the passing vehicle to a processor 2. A man-machine input means 3 inputs information on the number, etc., by manual operation unless the normal information on the vehicle passage is obtained by the number read means 1. The processor 2 gathers the information obtained by the number read means 1 or man- machine input means 3, finds the travel section of each vehicle, and calculates the toll corresponding to it, and sends the information on it to the optional bank 4. The bank 4 collects the toll from the account corresponding to the number according to the information received from the processor 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a toll road toll collection system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, toll collection methods for toll roads have been to install a toll gate and stop the vehicle at the toll gate to obtain a toll ticket or pay the toll.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned conventional charge collection method has a problem that it causes traffic congestion because it requires manual work and is troublesome. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a toll road toll collection system that does not require any trouble.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention collects and processes vehicle number reading means, man-machine input means, and vehicle passage information installed at the entrances and exits of toll roads. The processing means, the processing means and each bank are connected online so that an arbitrary toll road charge can be collected from an account corresponding to the vehicle number.

[0005]

According to the present invention, with the above-mentioned structure, the vehicle number reading means installed in the entrance and exit of the toll road and recognizing the number of the vehicle passing through the entrance and exit, and the artificial operation,
Man-machine input means for inputting the number of vehicles passing through the interchange, and processing means for collecting and processing these vehicle passage information, and connecting the processing means and each bank online, from the account corresponding to the vehicle number By having a means for collecting an arbitrary toll road charge, it is possible to save the trouble of collecting the toll at the tollgate.

[0006]

1 is a schematic block diagram of a toll road charge collecting system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a number reading means, 2 is a processing device, 3 is a man-machine inputting means, and 4 is a bank connected to the processing device 2 online. Number reading means 1
Transmits the vehicle passage information of the vehicle that has passed to the processing device 2.

When the man-machine input means 3 cannot obtain the normal information of vehicle passage by the number reading means 1,
Input information such as numbers through artificial operation. The processing device 2 collects the information obtained from the number reading means 1 or the man-machine inputting means 3, searches the traveling section of each vehicle, calculates the charge corresponding to it, and transmits the information to any bank. The bank 4 collects the charge from the account corresponding to the number based on the information received from the processing device 2.

FIG. 2 shows an example of installation of the toll road toll collection system of the present invention. In FIG. 2, 6 is a number reading device, 7 is a control center processing device, 8 is a man-machine input device, 9 is a number reading device, 10 is a man-machine input device, and 11 is a bank. Next, an actual operation example will be described based on FIG. The number reading means 6 installed at the entrance of the toll road reads the number of the vehicle passing through the entrance and sends the information to the processing device 7. However, if the number cannot be read by the number reading means 6 and an error occurs, the man-machine input means 8 is notified of the error, and the man-machine input means 8 that receives the error inputs the number of the vehicle in error, The information is transmitted to the processing device 7. Similarly to the above, at the exit of the toll road, the number reading means 9 installed at the exit reads the number of the vehicle passing through the exit and transmits the information to the processing device 7. However, if the number cannot be read by the number reading means 9 and an error occurs, the man-machine input means 10 is notified of the error, and the man-machine input means 10 that receives the error inputs the number of the vehicle in error, The information is transmitted to the processing device 7. The processing device 7 collects the vehicle passage information obtained on the entrance and the exit, searches for the entry destination of the number of the exiting vehicle, calculates the traveling section, and obtains the fare accordingly. Then, the requested charge and number information are transmitted to any bank 11. From the information obtained from the processor 7, the bank 11
Charges are automatically collected from the account corresponding to the number.

[0009]

As is apparent from the above embodiments, the present invention automatically grasps the number of a vehicle traveling on a toll road, obtains a traveling section, calculates a fare, and sends the information to a bank. This has the effect of saving various troubles at the toll booth.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an installation example of a toll road fee collection system in an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Number reading means, 2 ... Processing device, 3 ... Man-machine inputting means, 4,11 ... Bank, 6,9 ... Number reading device, 7 ... Control center processing device, 8,10
… Man-machine input device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vehicle number reading means installed in an entrance / exit of a toll road for recognizing the number of a vehicle passing through the entrance / exit, and a man-machine input means for inputting the number of a vehicle passing through an interchange by an artificial operation. And a processing means for collecting and processing these vehicle passage information, connecting the processing means and each bank online, and collecting an arbitrary toll from an account corresponding to the vehicle number. Charge collection system.