Patent ID: 6338041
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07B,G07C

Abstract:
A passenger management system for managing movement of passengers by using a boarding card having a tag recorded therein information on boarding of the passenger provided thereon; said system comprising:a check-in processing system for issuing said boarding card and performing checking-in processing; and a boarding processing system for confirming boarding of passengers using said boarding card; wherein said boarding processing system comprises: a plurality of tag readers, located in a plurality of discrete areas into which premises of an airport is divided, for receiving a signal which contains information on boarding of the passenger transmitted from the tag provided on said boarding card; and an information processing unit for actuating said tag readers, if there is found a remarked boarding card with which the check-in has been finished but boarding has not been confirmed, and determining an area among said plurality of areas in which said remarked boarding card is present based on the signal received by said tag readers, wherein said information processing unit prepares a list of not-boarded passengers who have said remarked boarding cards with which check-in has been finished in said check-in processing system but boarding has not been confirmed, and finds out current position of a not-boarded passenger on said list for each area according to a result of determination by each of said tag readers.