JPH0721423A - Charge collecting system on toll road - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent an exclusive lane from being congested and to normally charge a rate by judging whether a vehicle is unsuitable or not based upon communication with an on-vehicle equipment prior to communication with on-road machine and displaying a message for guiding an unsuitable vehicle to an attended lane. CONSTITUTION:A warning road machine 20 and its antenna 19 are arranged on a position just before a branch of an attended road B from a private lane A in a charge collecting system in order to previously judge whether a vehicle is unsuitable or not. A toll gate C in which a collecting man exists is arranged on the attended road B in order to directly collect cash. The machine 20 radio- communicates with an on-vehicle equipment 17 through the antenna 19, receives inherent ID information from the equipment 17 and checks the validity/invalidity of a card to calculate charge. The equipment 17 displays toll or a lacking amount on a charge display part, and when a certain vehicle is an unsuitable vehicle, flashes an invalid display lamp and drives a buzzer to warn the existence of the unsuitable vehicle.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

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

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a toll road toll collection system, a toll collector directly receives cash from a driver at a tollgate, or a method in which a driver puts cash into an automatic machine to automatically receive a toll. Has been adopted. Therefore,
The driver had to stop at the toll booth and prepare cash.

On the other hand, as a toll collection system in the near future that does not require the delivery of cash at a tollgate, a vehicle-mounted device such as a contactless IC card that records ID information and can wirelessly communicate with the outside is used. Systems have been developed.

For example, FIG. 3 shows an example thereof. In the figure, 011 is a vehicle detection device, 013, 013a is a vehicle length detection photoelectric tube for detecting the vehicle length of a passing vehicle, 014 is a vehicle photographing camera, a license plate reading device including an image processing device, 015 is an antenna, and 016 is A roadside device, 017 is a vehicle-mounted device mounted on a vehicle, and 018 is a surveillance TV camera.

The vehicle detection device 011 separates and detects a passing vehicle. The antenna 015 is controlled by the on-road device 016 to perform wireless communication with the on-vehicle device 017. The on-road device 016 is connected to the on-vehicle device 017 via the antenna 015.
The ID information is received from and the billing information is transmitted to the vehicle-mounted device 017 via the antenna 015. In the case of the post-payment method, a center computer (not shown) is contacted to withdraw from a pre-registered financial institution account.

[0006]

In the toll road toll collection system described above, it is necessary for the on-vehicle device and the on-road device to normally communicate with each other. In this case, if the balance is insufficient, the charges cannot be normally charged. Such an inappropriate vehicle needs to be guided to a manned lane in order to directly collect cash by a collector, but conventionally, whether or not the vehicle is an inappropriate vehicle is left to the voluntary judgment of the driver. It was

However, there are cases where the driver does not notice that the vehicle is inappropriate, and there is a case where the vehicle-mounted device alone cannot determine whether the vehicle is inappropriate. Therefore, an inappropriate vehicle may enter the dedicated lane of the toll collection system and cause traffic congestion.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned prior art. In order to prevent traffic congestion in a dedicated lane of a toll collection system and to normally charge a fee, it is judged beforehand whether or not the vehicle is unsuitable, An object of the present invention is to provide a toll road toll collection system capable of displaying an indication for guiding an unsuitable vehicle to a manned lane.

[0009]

The structure of the present invention which achieves such an object is mounted on a vehicle, has a memory storing ID information, and is mounted on a vehicle equipped with wireless communication means and at the entrance of a toll road. In a toll road toll collection system having a roadside device that receives ID information from the on-vehicle device and transmits billing information to the on-vehicle device, it is impossible to communicate with the on-vehicle device before communicating with the on-road device. It is characterized in that a roadside vehicle for notice is provided to judge whether or not the vehicle is appropriate and to display an instruction to the unmanned vehicle to the manned lane.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. 1 and 2 show an embodiment of a toll road toll collection system of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the dedicated lane A is provided with various facilities for contactlessly charging the vehicle. In the figure, 11 is a vehicle detection device, 13 and 13a are vehicle length detection photocells that detect the vehicle length of a passing vehicle, 14 is a license plate reading device including a vehicle photographing camera, an image processing device, 15 is an antenna, 16 is on the road. Machine, 17 is an in-vehicle machine mounted on the vehicle, 1
Reference numeral 8 is a surveillance TV camera.

The vehicle detection device 11 separates and detects a passing vehicle. The antenna 15 is controlled by the on-road device 16 and wirelessly communicates with the vehicle-mounted device 17. Road machine 16
Is to receive the ID information from the vehicle-mounted device 17 via the antenna 15 and transmit the billing information to the vehicle-mounted device 17 via the antenna 15. In the case of the post-payment method, a center computer (not shown) is contacted to withdraw from a pre-registered financial institution account.

As shown in FIG. 2, the vehicle-mounted device 17 of this embodiment includes a CPU (central processing unit) 21, a communication circuit 22, an antenna 23, a read-only memory 24, a read / write memory 25, a battery 26, an LCD and the like. Charge display 27, L
Invalid display lamp 28 such as ED, buzzer 2 for notifying an abnormality
It is composed of 9 etc.

The read-only memory 24 stores ID information unique to each vehicle. This ID information includes information for charging according to the vehicle type of each vehicle, and when the post-payment system is supported, includes information on an account of a financial institution such as a bank for paying a toll. This ID information is given to the vehicle-mounted device in advance and read by the CPU 21.

The readable / writable memory 25 rewritably stores the balance amount, payment history, and entrance information, and these information is read by the CPU 21. The balance and the like are displayed on the charge display unit 27. The CPU 21 wirelessly communicates with the antenna 15 of the on-road device 16 via the communication circuit 22 and the antenna 23, and upon request of the on-road device 16, the fixed ID information, balance, payment account, etc. from the read-only memory 24 and the readable / writable memory 25. Send information about.

Further, the CPU 21 stores the billing information received from the on-road unit via the communication circuit 22 and the antenna 23 as a billing history in the readable / writable memory 25, and in the case of the prepaid system, bills the billing fee from the balance. Perform removal processing. Further, in the present invention, in order to determine whether or not the vehicle is an inappropriate vehicle in advance, immediately before the manned road B branches from the dedicated lane A of the toll collection system, the roadside device 20 for notice and its antenna 19 are provided.

[0016] On the manned road B, a toll gate C provided with a collection person is provided in order to directly collect cash for an inappropriate vehicle. The announcement antenna 19 is controlled by the announcement road device 20 to perform wireless communication with the vehicle-mounted device 17 mounted on the vehicle. The advance notice road machine 20 wirelessly communicates with the in-vehicle device 17 via the advance notice antenna 19 and the in-vehicle device 17
The unique ID information is received from the card and the validity / invalidity of the card is checked to calculate the charge.

The result is transmitted to the vehicle-mounted device 17 for advance notice as follows. In-vehicle device malfunctions In-vehicle device invalid In-vehicle device balance Toll advance notice Insufficient toll balance

The in-vehicle device 17 receives the above contents, and
The PU 21 displays the toll charge or the shortage amount on the charge display unit 27, while the malfunction of the vehicle-mounted device 17 is invalid, the balance is 0,
When the balance is insufficient, the vehicle is an inappropriate vehicle, so the invalidation indicator lamp 28 is flashed and the buzzer 29 is sounded to warn that the vehicle is an inappropriate vehicle. Furthermore, it is effective to add a voice warning. The driver who receives this warning changes the route to manned road B and pays cash to the tollee at toll gate C.

If the vehicle-mounted device is not installed, or if the vehicle-mounted device stops operating, it is impossible to communicate with the vehicle-mounted device, so that it is impossible to issue a warning via the vehicle-mounted device. Therefore, it is preferable to provide a notice display lamp for indicating that the vehicle is unsuitable on the road.

In the present embodiment having the above-mentioned configuration, the vehicle-mounted device 17 and the roadside device 20 for advance notice communicate with each other in advance to judge the invalidity of the vehicle-mounted device 17 and notify the vehicle-mounted device 17 of the result. It is possible to guide an unsuitable vehicle to the manned road B. Therefore, it becomes possible to avoid the congestion of inappropriate vehicles on the dedicated road, and to charge the inappropriate vehicles normally at the toll gate C on the manned road B.

Further, since it is not necessary for the driver to judge the invalidity of the vehicle-mounted device 17, it is possible to use the toll collection system with peace of mind.

[0022]

As described above in detail with reference to the embodiments, the present invention communicates in advance with the vehicle-mounted device and the roadside device for advance notice to judge the invalidity of the vehicle-mounted device, and in the case of an inappropriate vehicle. Since it guides two manned lanes, it is possible to avoid traffic congestion on a dedicated road and charge the fare normally.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a fee collection system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an in-vehicle device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an external view of a conventional toll road toll collection system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Vehicle Detection Device 13 Vehicle Length Detection Phototube 14 License Plate Reading Device 15 Antenna 16 Roadside Device 17 In-vehicle Device 18 TV Camera for Monitoring 21 CPU (Central Processing Unit) 22 Communication Circuit 23 Antenna 24 Read Only Memory 25 Read / Write Memory 26 Battery 27 Charge display section 28 Invalid display lamp 29 Buzzer A Private road B Manned road C Toll gate

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle, having a memory for storing ID information, equipped with a wireless communication means, and receiving the ID information from the in-vehicle device at the entrance of a toll road, In a toll road toll collection system having a roadside device that transmits billing information, it communicates with the on-vehicle device before communicating with the roadside device and determines whether or not the vehicle is an unsuitable vehicle. A toll collection system for toll roads, which is equipped with a notice road machine that displays to guide the driver to the manned lane.