JPH11272899A - Method for calculating parking fee - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make parking fee calculation short and to prevent a user from waiting by reading a fee for each unit hour from a table and adding the total, calculating a fraction fee at the time of exit according to a start time of a unit hour including an exit time and the exit time and summing fees calculated in each process. SOLUTION: A fee adjusting device first obtains, e.g. an entrance time read from a parking ticket and the current time from a clock part, sets them to an exit time and records them on an entrance exit time setting part (P1). A fee calculating part calculates parking fee by adding fraction fee at the time of entrance from the entrance time till 24 o'clock of the day every hour (P2). Next, it calculates fees from 0 o'clock till a time to exit by adding them every hour (P3). Furthermore, except entrance and exit day, the value of the charge table corresponding to each day during the period is added to the above by unit hour. Finally, the fee calculating part adds these three values (P5) and obtains them as a parking fee to be calculated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of calculating a parking fee when a payment machine used in a toll parking lot calculates a parking fee from an entrance time and an exit time by inserting a parking ticket or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the conventional calculation of a parking fee, a fee has been calculated for every unit time from the entrance time to the time at which entry is to be performed, which goes back to the entrance time, and these are added. .

[0003]

In the conventional parking fee calculation method, if the difference between the entrance time and the time to enter is large, the calculation takes a long time and the user may have to wait.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking fee calculation method that shortens the parking fee calculation and does not make the user wait.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the method of calculating a parking fee according to the present invention, a parking fee is calculated from an entrance time of entering a parking lot and an exit time of trying to exit from the parking lot. In the parking fee calculation method, the parking fee per unit time is calculated in advance for a certain period of time, the calculation result is recorded on a table, and the entrance time and the end time of the unit time including the entrance time are calculated at the time of entry. A step of calculating a fractional charge, a step of reading the charge of each unit time between the entrance time and the entry time from the table and adding the total, and a start time and an entry time of the unit time including the entry time. A parking fee is obtained by adding the fractional fee at the time of entry and the fee calculated in each of the above steps.

[0006]

The operation of the parking fee calculation method according to the present invention operates as follows. With respect to the parking fee for a long period, the parking fee per unit time, which is calculated in advance from a certain period, is read from the table. The calculation of this period need only be added at the time of settlement. The fraction of the unit time including the entry time, that is, the parking fee calculated from the entry time to the end time of the unit time is calculated based on the entry time and the end time. The fraction of the unit time that includes the entry time, that is, the parking fee calculated from the start time of the unit time to the entry time is calculated based on the start time and the entry time. The calculation is the addition of the fee read from the table, the calculation of the fraction of entry and exit, and the sum of them. Even when the difference between the entrance and exit times is large, the calculation time is short, so the user has to wait. I will not let you.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an example of a flowchart of a procedure for explaining an embodiment, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a parking system, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a fee table, and FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram showing a portion for calculating the fee of the checkout machine. In FIG. 4, reference numeral 41 denotes a charge table, 42 denotes a charge calculation unit, 43 denotes a clock unit, and 44 denotes an entry / exit time setting unit.

As shown in FIG. 2, the parking lot according to this example has a nighttime charge and a daytime charge, and is 200 yen / hour on weekdays and Sundays and holidays in the daytime, 1 hour / 100 yen on weekdays and 1 hour / 200 yen on Sundays. It is a circle. Then, 24 hours is set as a unit time, the start time is set to 0:00, and the end time is set to 24:00.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the fee table according to this example, the fee when all the unit times are parked is calculated and recorded in advance for each day corresponding to each unit time. It is appropriate that the size of the fee table is about one year, and FIG. 3 shows 20 days among them. In the example of FIG.
The data on the 20th month is the latest, and today is the 21st of n. The payment machine deletes the data of the unit time corresponding to the nth day of the previous month at 0:00 a.m. on the 21st of n. It is calculated according to the system and recorded in the fee table.

Now, the vehicle that entered at 12:00 on the 1st of March,
A case will be described as an example where an attempt is made to participate at 12:00 on n. First, the checkout machine obtains, for example, the entry time read from the parking ticket and the current time from the clock section 43, sets this as the entry time, and records these in the entry / exit time setting section 44 (FIG. 1: P1). . From this entry time, the fee calculation unit 42 calculates the fractional fee at the time of entry from 12:00 to 24:00 on the first day of the nth month by adding every hour (FIG. 1: P2).
This is to add 200 yen 9 times from 12:00 to 21:00, 2
By adding 100 three times from 1:00 to 24:00, a total of 2,100 yen is obtained.

Next, the fee calculation section 42 calculates a fee from 0:00 to 12:00 on the 21st of November on an hourly basis for the time to be played (P3 in FIG. 1). This means that 100 yen is added 9 times from 0:00 to 9:00, and 1 from 9:00
By adding 200 yen three times until 2:00, you get 1500 yen.

Further, the fee calculating section 42 reads out the fee table 41 for a period between the entry and the exit recorded in the entry / exit time setting section 44 except for the date of entry and exit, and reads each day of the period. The value of the corresponding fee table is added for each unit time (FIG. 1: P4) to obtain 70,800 yen.

The fare calculation unit 42 adds these three values (FIG. 1: P5) to obtain a parking fee for obtaining 74400 yen.

In the case where the present invention is not applied, an hourly fee is added for each vehicle from 12:00 on the first day of March to 12:00 on the second day of March.

In the above example, the entry time is read from the parking ticket. In addition, the entry time is obtained from the record of the entry time by identifying the vehicle from the characteristic points such as the license plate of the vehicle, or other information of the parking lot. It is possible to use those obtained by setting the entrance time specific to the system. In addition, the order of adding the parking fee was performed in the order of the fraction at the time of entry, the fraction at the time of entry, and the fee for the period between entry and exit, but may be set arbitrarily regardless of this order.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, a charge calculated by reading and adding a predetermined period from a charge table for each unit time calculated in advance, and
Even if the difference between the entrance and exit times is large, the calculation time can be shortened only by adding the fee calculated by the fraction calculation at the time of entry, so that the user does not have to wait. In addition, what is calculated in advance for a unit time for a certain period and recorded in the charge table is used in common for charge calculation of a plurality of vehicles, and there is no need to perform many calculations for each vehicle for each unit time.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an example of a flowchart of a procedure for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a fee structure of a parking lot.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a fee table.

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram showing a charge calculation function part of the checkout machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

41: charge table, 42: charge calculation unit, 43: clock unit, 44: entry / exit time setting unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claims: 1. A parking fee calculation method for calculating a parking fee from an entry time when a user enters a parking lot and an entry time when the player tries to enter the parking lot, wherein the parking fee per unit time is calculated in advance from a fixed period. The calculation result is recorded on a table, and the fractional fee at the time of entry is calculated based on the entry time and the end time of the unit time including the entry time, and each unit time between the entry time and the entry time Reading the fee from the table and adding the total, calculating the fractional fee at the time of entry based on the start time of the unit time including the entry time and the entry time, and summing up the fees calculated in the above steps. A parking fee calculation method characterized in that a parking fee is obtained by the following.