| 摘要 |
<p>PCT No. PCT/SE95/00317 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 25, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 25, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 24, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/27269 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 12, 1995A method of cash card billing with the aid of parking or pay meters when parking a vehicle. A meter system includes a plurality of meters, each constituting an independent operative unit. The meters are equipped with a cash card reader, wherein a person parking a vehicle finds a meter and with the aid of the cash card reader feeds-in information from the cash card relating at least to the cash card account number, and wherein upon commencement of the parking period and subsequent to having read the cash card, the meter issues a parking ticket. When terminating the parking period, the parking ticket is read in a second meter, which can be any meter in the parking system, including the original meter. The second meter stores the transaction number read by the meter from the parking ticket, together with the time at which the ticket was read, which is the parking termination time. Memories contained in the respective first and second meters are read and that information is transferred to the memory of a central computer that combines the respective transactions with the aid of the transaction numbers and charges the cash card account number with a parking cost calculated based on the parking commencement time and the parking termination time.</p> |
