JPH02188895A - Toll collecting method for toll road - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To contrive on unmanned operation at both inlet and outlet by using a non-contact medium attached with a memory which can store a using hysteresis. CONSTITUTION:At an inlet gate, inlet information (the type of a vehicle, an inlet IC number and a date and time) is transmitted from road side equipment 5a, and at an outlet gate, the inlet information stored by a non-contact medium 8 is received by road side equipment 5b, an outlet trafic line controller 7b detects a traffic toll based on the inlet information, the traffic toll is automatically subtracted from a residual amount, outlet information (the type of the vehicle, the inlet IC number, the data and time, the residual amount, the outlet IC number, and the date and time) is prepared, transmitted through the road side equipment 5b to the non-contact medium 8, and the non-contact medium 8 stores the information. Thus the toll can be collected by unmanned operation.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a toll collection method on a toll road.

[Conventional technology]

The conventional method of collecting tolls on toll roads is that at the tollgate entrance gate, a collector issues a pass that records the entrance IC, vehicle type, etc., and hands it to the user.At the tollgate exit gate, the collector issues a ticket to the user. The machine processes the ticket, calculates the toll based on the recorded entrance, CK vehicle type, etc., and pays the toll in cash, a coupon ticket, or a magnetic card for deferred payment (cashless). I was supposed to receive it.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As mentioned above, in the conventional toll collection method, the user stops at the entrance or exit gate, and the toll collection is done through contact between the collector and the user using the pass ticket as a medium. When there are a lot of traffic jams, it causes traffic jams, and there is also the problem of having to rely on Chinese and Chinese manpower.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and to streamline the toll collection method on toll roads by using a non-contact medium and unmanned instead of the current toll collection method using a toll ticket as a medium. The purpose is to provide a collection method.

[Means to solve the problem]

In the toll road toll collection method according to the present invention, at the entrance gate, the vehicle side (user side) transmits a card unique number etc. using a transmission signal from a roadside device installed at a predetermined location, and the roadside device transmits the card number etc. The vehicle type, entrance IC number, month, date, hour, minute, etc. are stored in the memory of the non-contact medium, and the information is stored at the exit gate. At this point, the vehicle transmits the card's unique number, vehicle type stored in memory at the entrance gate, entrance IC number, month, day, hour, minute, remaining amount, etc. using a signal from a roadside device installed at a predetermined location. The vehicle type, entrance IC number, month, day, hour, minute, remaining amount, exit IC number, month, date, hour, and minute information sent from the device are stored again in the memory of the non-contact medium, and the entrance information is also transmitted at the entrance gate using the non-contact medium. (vehicle type, entrance IC number, month, date, hour, etc.) from the roadside device, the exit gate i receives the entrance information stored from the roadside device or non-contact medium, and the exit lane control device transmits the entrance information. The excess toll is automatically deducted from the remaining amount, the exit information (vehicle type, entrance IC number, month, day, hour, minute, remaining amount, exit IC number, month, day, hour, minute) is detected, and the information is sent through the roadside device. By sending it to a contactless medium and the contactless medium storing it,
It is designed to enable unmanned toll collection.

[Effect]

According to the method of the present invention, by using a non-contact medium with a memory that can store usage history, the entrance and exit can be unmanned or silent, and a multi-section toll collection method can be obtained.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of lane equipment and its surroundings in one embodiment of the present invention. In Figure 1, passing vehicle I
A and zb travel in the direction of arrow A through the entrance gate and exit gate. 2a and 2b are vehicle type identification devices installed at predetermined positions on toll roads, and include a pair of vehicle separators aa and sb each having a plurality of six optical tubes, and a device that detects the number of axles and wheel width of the vehicle. It consists of footboards 4a and 4b for measuring.Military/vehicle M devices 3a and sb separate passing vehicles ta and rb one by one and detect the passage of vehicles, and a footboard 4a.

Since vehicle detection signals from the vehicle separators 3a and sb are present, 4b measures the number of axles, wheel distance, tire width, etc. of passing vehicles ra and rb to determine the vehicle type.

sa and sb are roadside devices connected to an entrance lane control device 7a in the entrance toll booth 6a and an exit lane control device 7b in the exit toll booth 6a, respectively.

At the entrance gate, a detection signal from the vehicle separator 4a or the entrance lane control device 7a instructs the roadside device 5a to generate a transmission signal. Also at the exit gate, when the detection signal from the vehicle separator 4b is transmitted to the exit lane control device 7b, the exit lane control device 7b instructs the roadside device 5b to generate a transmission signal. Reference numerals 8 denote non-contact media that are installed in passing vehicles za and rb or possessed by users, and are used for data communication with roadside devices sa and sb. Furthermore, the data received by the roadside devices 5a and 5b is transmitted to the entrance lane control device 7a and the exit lane control device 7b, where it is checked and processed. .

sbJζ is transmitted.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the non-contact medium 8. As shown in FIG. Reference numeral 20 denotes a receiving antenna for receiving transmission signals and transmission data from the roadside devices sa and sb, and the data received by this antenna 20 is temporarily stored in the reception data storage circuit 2I. Reference numeral 22 denotes a data discrimination circuit, which discriminates the contents stored in the storage circuit 21 at the time of reception data, and when the stored contents are transmission data, read/write control is performed to store the stored contents. Transfer to Department 23. If the content of the received data memory circuit 2Z is an outgoing signal, it instructs the read/write control unit 23 to determine the corresponding data stored in the usage history memory unit 24b from the header part 24B, and to send out the transmission data. . Read write 1ilJ Gobe 23, use Ny
The main memory circuit 25 is composed of the t-history memory section 24b1 and the header portion 24B.

26 (a transmission data time storage circuit which temporarily stores the transmission data sent out from the read/write control section 23 of the main memory circuit 25; this transmission data time storage circuit 26
The content stored in is modulated based on the oscillation frequency specific to the modulation circuit 27, amplified by the power amplifier 28, and then transmitted from the transmitting antenna 29 to the roadside devices sa and sb.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the roadside devices 5a and 5b. In FIG. 3, 3° is a receiving antenna that receives data transmitted from the transmitting antenna 29 of the non-contact medium 8, and the data received by this receiving antenna is temporarily stored in the received data storage circuit 3I. be remembered. The received data storage circuit 3Z includes an amplifier circuit 32 for amplifying data, a demodulation circuit 33 for demodulating data, and a decoding circuit 34 for decoding, decoding, and storing data. The data temporarily stored in the decoding circuit 34 is transmitted by the transmission control circuit 35 to the entrance lane control device 7a or the exit lane control device 7b. On the other hand, the outgoing signals transmitted from the two-lane control devices 7a and yb, the vehicle type, entrance IC number, date, hour and minute of passage sent from the entrance lane control device 7a, the vehicle type sent from the exit lane control device 7b,
Information such as the entrance IC number, the month, date, time and minutes of passing through the entrance, the remaining amount after deducting the toll, the exit IC number, and the month, date, time and minutes of passing through the exit are sent to the transmission data and time storage circuit 3 via the transmission control circuit 35.
6 is stored. And this transmission data time memory circuit 3
The data stored in the contactless medium 8 is modulated by a modulation circuit 37 based on a unique oscillation frequency, amplified by a power amplifier 38, and then transmitted from a transmitting antenna 39 to a receiving antenna 20 of the non-contact medium 8.

ya, 7b entrance lane control device 7a and exit lane control device?
Since b is a normal microcomputer device equipped with an input/output mechanism, an arithmetic control mechanism, and a storage mechanism, detailed explanation will be omitted.

FIG. 4 shows an example of data, all of which are numbers.

40 is the data format of the header part 24a, which consists of a 6-digit card unique number (fixed) and 3 digits of usage history.
0a is an example of data before receiving data sent from the entrance lane control device 5a, 4ob is an example of data after receiving data sent from the roadside device 5a when passing through the entrance, and 41 is an example of data before receiving data sent from the roadside device 5a.
In the data format of the usage history memory section, the car model is 1 digit,
Entrance IC number 3 digits, month, date, hour and minute (passing through the entrance) 8 digits, remaining amount 5
digit, 3-digit exit IC number, and 8-digit month, date, hour, and minute (exit passage).In this example, the toll road was used twice using non-contact media.
"a" indicates the content and storage location of the previous usage history, and "41b" indicates the location where the history is stored at the time of current usage. 42 is the data format of the transmission data transmitted from the contactless medium 8 to the roadside devices 5a and 5b, which includes a 1-digit vehicle type, a 6-digit card unique number, a 3-digit entrance IC number, and month, date, hour, and minute (passed through the entrance).
It consists of 8 digits and 5 digits of the remaining amount, and 42a is the roadside device 5 on the entrance side.
Example of sending data sent to a. On the entrance side, nothing other than the unique card number is required, but the format is the same as on the exit side to match the format. 42b is an example of transmission data transmitted to the roadside device 5b on the exit side, and 43 is the non-contact medium 8 that is the roadside device 5a.

The received data format received from 5b is 1-digit vehicle type, 6-digit entrance IC number, 8-digit month, day, hour and minute (passing through the entrance), 5-digit balance, 3-digit exit IC number, 8-digit month, date, hour and minute (passing through the exit),
It has the same format as the usage history memory section 4I. 43a is an example of received data received from the roadside device 5a on the entrance side, and 43b is an example of received data received from the roadside device 5b on the exit side.

Next, a fee collection method having the above configuration will be explained.

In FIG. 1, when a passing vehicle 1a enters an entrance lane t, a vehicle type discrimination device 2a detects the vehicle and discriminates the vehicle type. Vehicle detection signals and vehicle type data are sent to the entrance lane control unit W.
7a. The entrance lane control device 7a stores vehicle type data and transmits a transmission number 46 to the transmission control circuit 35 of the roadside device 5a. This transmission signal is stored in the transmission data storage circuit 36, modulation circuit 37, and power amplification circuit 38.
After signal processing is performed at the transmitting antenna 39, the signal is transmitted. This transmission signal is received by the receiving antenna 20 of the non-contact medium 8, and is stored in the received data storage circuit 211.
The data discrimination circuit 22 instructs the read/write control section 23 of the upper storage circuit 25 to create a transmission take, and the read/write control section 23 reads the memory contents of the header part 24a and uses the corresponding used memory four times in the history. The storage contents of the section 24b are read out and transmission data is formed. For example, in the case of the stored content of the header part 40a in FIG. 4, the usage history number is "002", so the usage history memory section 4
Read the memory contents of the second line 418 of 1 and write the header part 4
Transmission data 42a is created by merging the 0H card specific number, vehicle type, entrance IC number, month, date, time (passed through the entrance), and remaining amount in the usage history memory section 41a. The created transmission data is sent from the read/write flilJ control unit 23 to the transmission data temporary storage circuit 26, modulated N path 27, and power amplification 1.
Post-transmission antenna 2 with Kanji 281 signal processing
It will be sent from 9. This transmission data is received by the reception antenna 30 of the wI side device 5a, stored in the reception data storage circuit 31, and sent from the transmission control circuit 35 to the entrance lane control device 7a. The entrance lane control device 7a processes the sent 42B data. The content of the data processing is to replace the vehicle type with the vehicle type data from the previously stored vehicle type discrimination device 2a and add the entrance IC number, which is 091'' in this case. When this happens, the remaining amount is replaced with the current month, day, hour, and minute held by the entrance lane control device 7a, the content of the sending take 42a is used as is, and the exit IC number and month, date, hour, and minute (exit passing) are cleared to "0" and added. By doing this, the data of 43a is formed.This data of 43a is the roadside bag jM5.
The signal is transmitted to the transmission control circuit 35 of a and is transmitted from the transmission antenna 39 through the same processing as the transmission signal, received by the reception antenna 2θ of the non-contact medium 8, and stored in the reception data storage circuit 21. The data discrimination circuit 22 discriminates that the sent data 43a is a receive take on the input/O side based on the fact that the content of the exit IC number is "0".
The data is taken on the entrance side and sent to the read/write control section 23. The read/write control unit 23 first looks at the contents of the header part 24a, as in the case of the outgoing signal. The data content at this time is 4
It is 0a. In the case of entry side data, the read/write control unit 23 adds 1" to the number of usage history, changes the contents of 40b, changes the stored content of part of the header, and calculates the number of usage history after the change, in this case "003" is used. The received data 43E1 is written as is in the history location of the memory section 41, that is, 41b.The contents of 41b are the same as 43a, and the passing vehicle 1a
Pass through the entrance toll booth and enter the toll road.

When the passing vehicle 1b that has traveled on the toll road enters the exit gate, the vehicle mf'lJ separate flf, zb transmits the detection signal and vehicle type data to the exit lane control device 7b, and performs the same processing as the entrance gate. That is, after storing the vehicle type data, the transmission signal is transmitted to the transmission control circuit 35 of the roadside bag GSB, and thereby the transmission signal is stored in the temporary storage circuit 2I of the non-contact medium 8. Data discrimination circuit 2
2 is determined to be an outgoing signal, and transmission data is created using the same process as the input rogate of the outgoing signal. That is, the read/write control unit 23 reads the stored contents of the header part 24a, and in this case, the inner valley of the header part is 4θb and the number of usage history is "003", so the third row 41b of the usage history memory part 41 is stored. Created by content. As a result 42b
transmission data is formed and this transmission data is sent to the transmission take-
Time a is transmitted to the storage circuit 26, transmitted from the transmission antenna 29, sent to the reception antenna 3o of the roadside device 5b, and stored in the reception data storage circuit 31 of the roadside device 5b.

The processing inside '6 of the roadside device 5b is also the roadside device 5a of the entrance booth.
The transmission take 42b is sent from the transmission control circuit 35 to the Z line control device ybJ.

The exit lane control device 7b is a car that is stored in advance by the vehicle type discrimination device 2! 7″′ ~ Entrance I of the transmission data 42b
Calculate the toll d1 using the C number. The exit IC number is "095" and the car is Flj 1 1091"~"095"
"If the toll between the two is 300 yen, the remaining amount in the transmission data 42b is calculated as 09100-300=08800, and this is used as the new remaining amount. Data processing on the exit side includes calculation and replacement of the remaining amount, and the car type. Replace it with the vehicle type taken from the discriminator 2b, use the data from the transmission take 42b for the entrance IC number, month, date, hour and minutes (passed through the entrance), and add the exit IC number, here "095". The current month, date, hour, and minute held by the exit lane control device 7b to which the transmission data 42b was sent are added to form data 43b.This data 43b is transmitted to the roadside device 5b as well as the entrance booth. The data is transmitted from the transmission control circuit 35 of the transmission antenna 39, received by the reception antenna 20 of the non-contact medium 8, stored in the reception data storage circuit 2I, and the data discrimination circuit recognizes the sent data 43b as the exit IC number. The read/write control unit 23 determines that the content is not 0'', indicating that it is the output-side received data, and outputs the data as the output-side data.
send to The read/write control section 23 first reads the contents of the header part 42a, as in the case of the other data, and at this time, the contents of the 9 data should be 40b. In the case of exit side data, the read/write control unit writes the received data 43b as it is to the position 4Zb of the usage history memory unit 4Z with the read usage history number “003” without adding “1” to the usage history number. . Therefore, the contents of 41b ζ 43bL
The passing vehicle 1b passes through the exit toll booth,
Run off the toll road.

In this way, by using prepaid contactless media and without processing data online, by simply installing the roadside devices SA and SB at predetermined positions on the toll road, the contactless media entrance IC number can be accessed only within the toll booth. Based on the information, the toll can be collected unattended by automatically calculating the toll and deducting the remaining amount at the exit booth.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, compared to the current toll collection method using a toll ticket as a medium, (1) no toll ticket medium is required, which is economical.

(2) Since no pass ticket media is used, the management of passes can be streamlined.

(3) It becomes an unmanned system, which saves manpower.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 shows a car fI! according to an embodiment of the present invention. i! A schematic diagram of the peripheral configuration of the equipment, Figure 2 is an internal configuration diagram of the non-contact medium in Figure 1, Figure 3 is an internal configuration diagram of the roadside device in Figure 1, and Figure 4 is a diagram of the non-contact medium in Figure 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing data contents of a medium. 2a, zb...Vehicle type identification device, ga, sb...Vehicle separator, 5a, 5b...Roadside device, 7a...Entrance lane control device, 7b...Exit lane control device, 8...・
Non-contact medium.

Claims (1)

[Claims] At least the vehicle type and entrance IC number transmitted from a roadside device installed at a predetermined location of an entrance gate on a toll road are stored, the entrance IC number is transmitted by a transmission signal from the roadside device at the exit gate, and the exit IC number, Using a prepaid contactless medium that has the function of receiving the balance, automatically counting the number of usage history, and storing the data transmitted from the roadside device at that location, the information on the contactless medium is displayed at the exit gate. A toll collection method on a toll road characterized by calculating a toll based on the amount and automatically deducting the remaining amount on a non-contact medium.