A wireless type pre-paid IC card system enhances the convenience of users and
assures
the safe payment of tolls by vehicles including bikes when introduced for toll
roads. This toll collecting system is composed of: a card processor that is arranged
in a booth for the toll collection process and has an antenna unit for executing
the card process through the wireless communication with IC cards, antenna units
arranged at the left and right roadsides of the booth for executing the card process
through the wireless communication with IC cards, a vehicle class discriminator
for discriminating classes of vehicles entering into a traffic lane, and a traffic
lane controller that selects an antenna unit to perform the card process according
to a discriminated vehicle class and controls the card process.