AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR PAYING TRAVEL FARES AND CHECKING TRAVEL TICKETS Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: automation for transport, preferably for underground and railway. SUBSTANCE: device has central unit and station sets. Central unit has workstations which have processor with recorder and displaying unit at output, unit which stores codes of travel tickets, interface units, memory units, information processing units for processing information which is sent by station sets. Station set has units for selling tickets, automatic checkpoints, workstations which are identical to those of central unit. Each unit for selling tickets has cash register, units for encoding tickets and transmission of codes to central unit. Each automatic checkpoint has unit which reads codes of tickets, logical units which check ticket validity and output corresponding information to central unit, signals for tourniquet control and alternation of tickets (for example, deduction of trip from ticket or its cancellation). Communication inside system and connection between central unit and station sets are provided by multiplex channels. EFFECT: automatic selling of tickets, their ) inspection on boarding, subsequent statistical processing of operations of transport system or its pieces. 4 dwg