Railway ticketing system and screen display method of railway ticket vending machines

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to easily purchasing a ticket on a vertically long display screen, and to easily confirm input information input through the operation and the information on the confirmation result.;SOLUTION: When a destination station is input on a destination input screen 50 (Fig.6), a confirmation screen 91 showing a route 93 from a departure station 94a to a destination station 94b input on the destination input screen 50 on a map 92 is displayed at the upper side of the vertically long display screen 10 as the input result, while a route map 99 or a train information confirmation part 100 related to the selected train, operation buttons 98 equipped with operation buttons such as a "seat change" button 100a, a "departure station change" button 101, a "round trip" button 102, an "another route" button 103, and a "next" button 104 are displayed at the lower side of the vertically long display screen 10. The user performs various types of operations for purchasing the ticket while confirming the input results. The vertical positional relation of the screens 91 and 98 is inverted by operating an "upside down" button 48c.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT