JPS62154096A - Toll coupon issuing apparatus for toll road and entry/departure managing system - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of the Invention) The present invention relates to a toll ticket issuing device and an access control system for toll roads such as the Meishin/Tomei Expressway.

(Prior art and its problems) Conventional toll road ticket issuance and crowd management are as follows.

First, to explain the issuance of a toll ticket, for example, at a toll gate at the entrance of an interchange, an attendant determines the type of vehicle, such as a large car or a regular car, and issues a toll ticket to the driver according to the type of vehicle. I was trying to hand it over.

When exiting the toll road, the driver hands the toll ticket to the attendant at the toll gate at the exit of the interchange, and makes payment based on the toll ticket.

However, in such conventional cases, parking areas and service areas that can be used by both up and down lines are exploited, and for example, those using the expressway from Tokyo and Osaka contact each other in advance. , a user from Tokyo exchanges a toll ticket from Tokyo with a toll ticket from Osaka, and a user from Tokyo uses the toll ticket from Osaka to illegally make a U-turn near the interchange toll gate and get off at Kyoto, while on the other hand, a user from Osaka There was a problem of fraudulent use of passes, such as passengers from Tokyo using passes from Tokyo to get off at Yokohama and inflating their fares.

(Object of the Invention) The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the first invention is to issue a toll ticket with less effort in order to prevent unauthorized use of the toll ticket on a toll road. The purpose of the second invention is to
By using the pass ticket issuing device of the invention, it is an object of the present invention to prevent unauthorized use of passes by managing entrances and exits well with less effort.

(Structure and Effects of the Invention) In order to achieve the above object, the toll road ticket issuing device of the first invention includes a reading recognition means for reading and recognizing the vehicle number on the license plate of the vehicle, and a reading recognition means for reading and recognizing the vehicle number on the license plate of the vehicle. and ticket issuing means for recording the vehicle number read by the recognition means on the ticket.

According to this configuration, at a tollgate at the entrance of an interchange, the vehicle number of the vehicle entering there is read,
By recording it in a direct character pattern or by encoding it, a ticket with the vehicle number recorded can be issued.

Therefore, by mechanically or visually checking the vehicle number recorded on the ticket and the vehicle number of the incoming vehicle at the toll booth at the exit of an interchange, it is possible to check that the ticket is being used properly. It is now possible to determine whether someone is present or not, and to prevent unauthorized use of passes.

Furthermore, since the vehicle number can be read and recognized and recorded on the pass ticket without the need for human intervention, such as when a toll booth attendant looks at the license plate and writes it on the pass ticket, unauthorized use can be prevented. It is now possible to issue passes that can prevent accidents with less effort.

In order to achieve the above object, the entrance/exit control system for a toll road according to the second invention includes an entrance side reading/recognition means on the entrance side for reading and recognizing the vehicle number of the license plate of the approaching vehicle; A pass ticket issuing device is installed on the exit side, which includes a pass ticket issuing unit that records the vehicle number read by the recognition unit on the pass ticket, and an exit side reading recognition device that reads and recognizes the vehicle number of the incoming vehicle. means, a reading means for reading the vehicle number recorded on the pass ticket, and a comparison between the vehicle number read by the exit side reading recognition means and the vehicle number read by the reading means; An unauthorized vehicle identification device is installed and configured, comprising a comparison means that outputs a comparison output when the numbers do not match, and a notification means that reports the mismatch of vehicle numbers in response to the comparison output.

According to this configuration, at a tollgate at the entrance of an interchange, the vehicle number of the vehicle entering there is read,
By recording it in a direct character pattern or by recording it in code, a toll ticket with the vehicle number recorded is issued, and when the toll road makes a driving sound with the toll ticket in hand, the vehicle is In addition to reading the number in the same way as on the population side, the vehicle number recorded on the pass ticket is also read, and the two vehicle numbers are compared with each other. If there is a discrepancy, it can be identified and notified.

Therefore, if a toll ticket is found to be fraudulent at a toll gate on the exit side of an interchange, this will be reported to the staff in charge, thereby preventing unauthorized use of the ticket by abusing the parking area or service area. Ta.

Moreover, the reading and recognition of the vehicle number and the recording of it on the toll ticket can be carried out, for example, by the toll booth attendant on the population side who looks at the license plate and writes it on the toll ticket, or furthermore, by the toll booth clerk at the exit side. This can be done without human operations such as visually determining whether the vehicle number recorded on the pass ticket matches the vehicle number of the incoming vehicle. Entry/exit management, including checking for unauthorized access, can now be done with less effort.

(Description of Examples) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on examples shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a pass ticket issuing device I according to an embodiment of the first invention. In this figure, l is an entrance-side reading/recognition device as an entrance-side reading/recognition means that reads and recognizes the vehicle number of the license plate NP of vehicle A, and 2 is an entrance-side reading/recognition device that reads the vehicle number read by the entrance-side reading/recognition device 1. This is a ticket issuing machine that serves as a ticket issuing means for recording on the ticket B.

The population side reading/recognition device l has a loop coil 3 buried in a predetermined location on the approach path of the vehicle A, and detects that the vehicle A has entered a predetermined position based on a signal change from the loop coil 3. A loop coil type vehicle detector 4 that detects the vehicle number, and an industrial television 5 that captures the vehicle number of the license plate NP.
(ITV), a control unit 6 that causes the industrial television 5 to take a picture when the vehicle A is detected by the vehicle sensor 4, and a processing unit 7 that recognizes the vehicle number from the captured image.
are provided.

Thereby, as shown in FIG. 2 (details will be described later), the vehicle number of the vehicle A that has entered near the entrance toll gate 8 of the toll road is recognized.

The ticket issuing machine 2 is configured to issue a ticket B by converting the code of the vehicle number and recording the code by punching a hole along with a check code according to a certain rule.

That is, to explain in detail, for example, when a vehicle number such as K55 A [234] is read, each character is first encoded as Kyo-075 and A-01. Then, for example, only the numbers of the same digit are added, and the last digit of each total value is used as a check code. This results in 075
, 01, 1234, 1200 in order as shown in the front view of ticket B in Figure 3.
In each of the city name recording area R, the hiragana partial recording area Rt, the vehicle number recording area R3, and the check code recording area R4, data is recorded by punching holes at predetermined locations divided into IO stages in the vertical direction on the drawing. It has become.

Reference numeral 9 in the figure is a display device that displays the vehicle number recorded on the ticket B by the ticket issuing machine 2, and the vehicle number displayed on the display device 9 and the vehicle number of the approaching vehicle A can be visually displayed. It is also possible to compare and confirm.

FIG. 2 is an overall schematic configuration diagram of the access control system of the second invention, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the unauthorized vehicle identification device O. In this figure, the population side toll gate 8 has
A toll ticket issuing device I of the first invention is installed, and an unauthorized vehicle identification device O is installed at the exit side toll gate 10.

As shown in FIG. 4, the unauthorized vehicle identification device 0 includes an exit side reading recognition device 11 as an exit side reading recognition means that reads and recognizes the vehicle number of the incoming vehicle A, and a vehicle number recorded on the ticket B. The pass ticket reading section 12 as a reading means compares the vehicle number read by the exit side reading recognition device 11 with the vehicle number read by the pass ticket reading section 12, and when the two vehicle numbers do not match, It is comprised of a comparison/judgment section 13 as a comparison means that outputs a comparison output, and a tJI reporting/overturning device 14 as a notification means for notifying discrepancies in vehicle numbers in response to the comparison output. This notification means may be modified in various ways, such as a buzzer, a lamp, or a combination of these.

The exit side reading/recognition device 11 has a loop coil 15 buried at a predetermined location on the approach path of vehicle A, and detects that vehicle A has entered a predetermined position based on a signal change from the loop coil 15. Loop coil type vehicle detector I6
, an industrial television +7 (ITV) that photographs the vehicle number of the license plate NP, a control 8 that causes the industrial television 17 to photograph when the vehicle sensor 16 detects the vehicle A, and a photographed image. A processing unit 19 for recognizing the vehicle number from the vehicle number is provided.

Reference numeral 20 in the figure is a display device for displaying the vehicle number read from the ticket B by the ticket reader I2, and the vehicle number displayed on the display device 20 and the vehicle number of the approaching vehicle A can be visually displayed. It is also possible to compare and confirm.

The present invention is not limited to the case where the pass ticket B is issued at the entrance of an interchange and the entrance/exit is controlled as in the above-mentioned embodiment. It can also be applied to cases where a pass ticket B is issued and its entry/exit is managed.

Face Gil! In the ticket issuing device I, the vehicle number is recorded on the ticket B, for example, by magnetizing and recording data such as an encoded number string on the ticket B with a magnetic stripe. In addition, as shown by the broken line in FIG. 3, in conjunction with the above-mentioned configuration or alone,
(Number Brake) Various configurations can be adopted, such as printing on the ticket B with the same image as the vehicle number on the NP.

Further, as the ticket reading section 12 in the unauthorized vehicle identification device 0, various configurations can be adopted depending on the recording configuration of the ticket B in the ticket issuing device I.

Furthermore, the ticket issuing device I uses the entrance-side reading/recognition device I to determine the vehicle type of the approaching vehicle A, and automatically writes the vehicle type data and toll booth data that identifies each tollgate into the ticket B along with the vehicle number. It may also be configured so that it is recorded. Then, using such a pass ticket issuing device I, this second
When configuring the entrance/exit management system of the invention, it is possible to configure the toll ticket reader 12 to calculate a toll from vehicle type data and toll gate data and display it on the display 20. This has the advantage of further reducing the time and effort required by staff and further promoting the transition to unmanned operations.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a ticket issuing device according to an embodiment of the first invention.
2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the access control system of the second invention, FIG. 3 is a front view of the pass ticket, and FIG. 4 is the configuration of the unauthorized vehicle identification device O. It is a block diagram. 1. Entrance side reading recognition device as entrance side reading recognition means, 2.. Passing ticket issuing machine as passing ticket issuing means, II
Exit side reading/recognition device as exit side reading/recognition means; 12. Passage ticket reading section as reading means; 13. Comparison/judgment section as comparison means; 8. Vehicle, B... Passage ticket, ■... Passage ticket issuing device; O・
Unauthorized vehicle identification device.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Toll ticket issuance on toll roads equipped with a reading/recognition means for reading and recognizing the vehicle number on the license plate of a vehicle, and a toll ticket issuing means for recording the vehicle number read by the reading/recognition means on the ticket. Device. (2) The entrance side is equipped with an entrance side reading/recognition means for reading and recognizing the vehicle number on the license plate of an approaching vehicle, and a pass ticket issuing means for recording the vehicle number read by the reading/recognition means on the pass. A pass ticket issuing device is installed, and on the exit side, an exit side reading recognition means for reading and recognizing the vehicle number of the incoming vehicle; a reading means for reading the vehicle number recorded on the pass ticket; Comparing means for comparing the vehicle number read by the exit side reading recognition means and the vehicle number read by the reading means, and outputting a comparison output when the two vehicle numbers do not match; and a comparison means responsive to the comparison output. An access control system for a toll road in which an unauthorized vehicle identification device is installed, which is equipped with a notification means for notifying discrepancies in vehicle numbers.