KR100440258B1 - Method for collecting a fee - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for collecting fares in a long distance section, comprising: a driver interface unit and a device for calculating a fare using a record information of a fare payment card read through a card reader. Receiving a section setting command for collecting a ride fare; Setting a section fee corresponding to the section setting command; Receiving passenger information; Calculating a fare based on the inputted passenger information by applying the set fare to a drainage process or a discount rate; Accumulating the calculated ride fare along with the card identification information according to the type of the read payment card and calculating the fare, or recording and paying the amount information on which the calculated fare is deducted from the read amount on the card; It is characterized by including.

Description

Intercity Sector Toll Collection Method {METHOD FOR COLLECTING A FEE}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ride fare settlement system, and more particularly, to a method for collecting fares in a long distance section.

The bus, which is one of the public transportations, collects the passenger's fare by providing a cash container for storing cash or tokens, or a fare settlement device that reads a card storing predetermined amount of information and deducts the fare. Doing.

Such a fare payment device includes a card reader that reads the amount information of a bus card or a transportation card or records the amount information of which the fare is deducted, and a driver operation device that controls the operation of the card reader while communicating with the card reader. .

If the bus route collects a uniform fare within the operating section, that is, if the bus route is limited in the metropolitan city, only the uniform fare should be collected regardless of the use section, but the bus that moves from the city section to the intercity section or vice versa In case of, the overtime charge shall be collected for each section. In this case, after the bus enters the intercity section, it is common to collect the section fare additionally when getting off, or to collect the fare corresponding to the destination in advance by using the driver's operation device when boarding.

However, in the conventional fare payment system, the driver checks the passenger's destination and the number of riders when additional fare is collected (for example, '5' → '4' → 'confirmation' key for 540 won). Input), which burdens the driver on calculating and entering the fare.

Meanwhile, as one of the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), which is being promoted at the national level, the Bus Information System (BIS) is being spread. The services provided by such bus information systems include route information guidance and station announcement broadcasting performed by the driver's operation. The bus information system includes a GPS module for identifying the current vehicle position.

Therefore, if the GPS module can be used to collect long distance fares (for example, automatic section setting for long distance fares), the driver can be prevented from operating a ride fare payment device to collect fares. It will be able to contribute to a relatively safe operation.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a long distance fare collection method that can contribute to the safe operation by minimizing the driver's operation for collecting the fare for each long distance.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide an intercity section charge collection method that can collect charges after checking the current location of a vehicle and setting a charge for each section.

1 is a block diagram of an out-of-town section toll collection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is an exemplary view of the driver interface unit 50 of FIG. 1.

3 is a flow chart for intercity section charge collection according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, an intercity section fee collection method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a GPS receiving module and a driver interface for receiving vehicle location information, and records information of a ride fee payment card read through a card reader. In the device for calculating the fare by using

Reading vehicle location information received through the GPS receiving module;

Receiving a destination of the occupant;

Setting an interval fee between the input destination and the current vehicle location;

Receiving passenger information;

Calculating a fare based on the inputted passenger information by applying the set fare to a drainage process or a discount rate;

Accumulating the calculated ride fare along with the card identification information according to the type of the payment card that was read and calculating the ride fare or recording and calculating the amount of information on which the calculated fare is deducted from the read amount on the card; It is characterized by including.

Therefore, the present invention can set the section to collect different charges based on the location information of the vehicle received through the GPS receiving module and the destination information input by the driver, the driver simply inputs the destination and occupant information It will be possible to collect intercity charges.

On the other hand, in the inter-city section charge collection method according to another embodiment of the present invention, in the device having a driver interface unit for calculating the fare using the record information of the fare payment card read through the card reader,

Receiving a section setting command for collecting different ride fare for each section;

Setting a section fee corresponding to the section setting command;

Receiving passenger information;

Calculating a fare based on the inputted passenger information by applying the set fare to a drainage process or a discount rate;

Accumulating the calculated ride fare along with the card identification information according to the type of the read payment card and calculating the fare, or recording and paying the amount information on which the calculated fare is deducted from the read amount on the card; It is characterized by including.

According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, if a section to be collected only once upon entering a section without the provision of a GPS receiving module is set, the intercity section fee is collected by simply entering the passenger information within the same toll collection section. You can do it.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily understand and reproduce the present invention.

First, FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of an out-of-town section toll collection device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 illustrates an example screen of the driver interface unit 50 of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, the card reader 10 reads various types of information recorded on a fare payment card or records amount information of which a passenger's fare is deducted. The fare payment card may be a prepaid bus card, or a postpaid traffic card.

The ride fare settlement unit 20 calculates a ride fare corresponding to the passenger information input from the driver interface unit 50 under the control of the control unit 40, and calculates the ride fare calculated from the amount of money read by the card reader 10. Deduct the role.

As shown in Table 1 below, the fare information information storage unit 30 stores a fare table of the same type as a fare table, in which different fare rates are mapped to sections, and also stores discount data according to occupant information.

Section number Section Name Section Fee Interval 0 A 650 Segment 1 B 700 Section 2 C 750

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Zone 9 D 950

In Table 1, the section number is a value corresponding to the number key button provided in the driver interface unit 50, and the section name and section fee are mapped to each section number as one section information. The section information is displayed on the display unit constituting the driver interface unit 50, so that the driver can determine whether the section setting is normally performed.

The driver interface unit 50 includes a plurality of key buttons for controlling the overall operation of the toll information device as well as the passenger information, as well as a display unit for displaying the set section information and various operation states. An example of such a driver interface unit 50 is shown in FIG. 2. As shown in FIG. 2, the driver interface unit 50 has a function key for inputting occupant information, that is, a 'general', 'student', 'postmark', and 'confirmation' key. A number key for input is provided. In addition, a function key for selecting premiums and long distance charges is also provided, and a display window for displaying section information is provided. For reference, it is obvious that the display unit for the passenger to see the fare is provided.

On the other hand, the memory 60 stores control program data for implementing the method according to the embodiment of the present invention and control program data for controlling the operation of each part of the system.

The GPS receiver 70, which is a GPS receiver module, receives the latitude and longitude data of the vehicle, that is, the vehicle position information, through the GPS antenna (not shown) and outputs it to the controller 40. In addition, the wireless communication unit 80 is a component for updating the section fee, and will be described below with reference to FIG. 3 of the base of the vehicle. Shall be.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a long distance section toll collection according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, assuming that a bus departs from a vehicle base located in a long distance, a driver inputs a long distance key in the driver interface unit 50 to collect a long distance fare. Then, the controller 40 recognizes this in step 100 so that the section fee corresponding to the section number input thereafter can be set. The section number may be input by operating a number key provided in the driver interface unit 50. That is, one section can be ordered to set the section, such as the number key 1, the second section is the number key 2. When the intercity key input is completed as described above, when the driver hears the destination from the occupant and inputs the section number (step 110), the controller 40 receives the section fare mapped to the input section number. In step S120, the section fee is set. The controller 40 displays the set section fee, the input section number, and the section name corresponding to the section number on the driver interface unit 50 as one section information (step 130).

If there is no abnormality by monitoring the displayed section information, the driver inputs a confirmation key. When the confirmation key is input in step 140, the controller 40 displays the collection fee (step 145) and then controls the system to collect the section fee set in step 120 as the fee for one general passenger. That is, a plurality of occupant riding commands (these commands are also input using the number keys, and the driver can collect the fare by simple operation compared to the conventional fare payment device. In addition, it is inconvenient to memorize the fare for each destination. Can be solved.

In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the process of collecting the fare from the ride fare payment card has been described, but the fare may be collected by simply notifying the displayed section fare to the passenger riding the cash.

Hereinafter, a method of collecting a fare from a plurality of passengers heading to the same destination will be described. First, the driver first sets a fare by inputting a section number when the number of people accompanying the destination is heard from the fare payer. And if the number of people to accompany immediately using the number keys without inputting the confirmation key, the control unit 40 recognizes this in step 170 and proceeds to step 180 to match the section fee set in step 120 to the number of people The fare is calculated by processing n multiples. After setting the calculated fare as the new fare, the process proceeds to step 140. If there is a confirmation key input, the fare is set and the section fare set in step 180 is collected.

That is, the driver can collect the fare of the companions at a time by setting the section suitable for the destination of the companions and simply entering the number of people and then operating the confirmation key.

If the fare is to be discounted, such as a student or a postmark, the driver presses a key ('villain' or 'student' key) to select the type of occupant while the fare is set. Then, the control unit 40 recognizes this in step 190 and proceeds to step 200 to calculate the discounted fare by applying a discount rate for the input key and sets it as a new fare. When the confirmation key is input (step 140), the process proceeds to step 150 to collect the set section fee.

Therefore, the present invention is to be able to conveniently collect the intercity section fare according to the passenger information with a simple key operation compared to the conventional fare payment device. For reference, the long distance key may be input every time the long distance charge is collected, or the long distance section charge collection mode may be released when the long distance key is repeatedly input. In such cases, a uniform city rate may be set and collected.

Meanwhile, in FIG. 3, the method of collecting the intercity section fee according to the passenger information has been described, but the surcharge for each section may be collected in the same manner as above. In this case, the premium key should be entered first instead of the long distance key. And the rest of the steps are the same. However, the premium rate table having the same form as the segment rate table is applied. In such a premium mode, the premium mode is canceled when the premium key is input again. The release of the premium mode at this time does not mean the release of the premium of the fare, but rather the release of the mode of collecting different premium fare for each section.

As another embodiment of the present invention, the charge for each section may be automatically set by using the vehicle location information received through the GPS receiving module.

That is, when the driver hears the destination from the occupant and presses the intercity key and the number key corresponding to the destination, the controller 40 receives the location information of the current vehicle through the GPS receiver 70. Then, after setting the fare corresponding to the section between the current location information of the received vehicle and the destination (entered by the number key) input by the driver as the section fee, the section fee may be collected according to the passenger information in steps 130 to 200. In this case, too, since the driver's intervention for setting the fare can be minimized, the operational convenience can be doubled. In such a second embodiment, a surcharge for each section using a premium key can be collected.

As described above, the present invention may contribute to safety operation by minimizing the driver's operation for toll collection in collecting the fare and the surcharge for each intercity section, as well as providing convenience for the driver's operation.

In addition, since the current vehicle location is checked by automatically setting the collection fee for each section, there is an advantage that the driver can double the convenience of using the device.

Claims (9)

delete delete delete delete A driver interface unit including a GPS receiving module for receiving vehicle location information and a number key for inputting a destination, the apparatus for calculating a ride fare using record information of a ride fare payment card read through a card reader. In the intercity section fee collection method, Reading vehicle location information received through the GPS receiving module; Receiving a destination of a passenger through a number key of the driver interface unit; Setting an interval fee between the input destination and the current vehicle location; Receiving passenger information; Calculating a fare based on the inputted passenger information by applying the set fare to a drainage process or a discount rate; Accumulating the calculated ride fare along with the card identification information according to the type of the read payment card and calculating the fare, or recording and paying the amount information on which the calculated fare is deducted from the read amount on the card; Intercity section toll collection method comprising the. The method of claim 5, further comprising displaying the set section fee together with a section name and a section setting command. 7. The method of claim 5 or 6, wherein the occupant information is inputted as a key command for distinguishing the number of occupants and students and postmarks, and the single occupant and the general public are inputted by a confirmation key operation. delete delete