US 10,894,552 B2 · System and method integrating an energy management system and yard planner system

Abstract

A system and method identify vehicles to be included in a multi-vehicle system that is to travel along one or more routes for an upcoming trip, and determines plural different potential builds of the multi-vehicle system. The different potential builds represent different sequential orders of the vehicles in the multi-vehicle system. The system and method also simulate travels of the different potential builds for the upcoming trip, calculate a safety metric, consumption metric, and/or build metric for the different potential builds based on travels that are simulated, and generates a quantified evaluation of the safety metric, consumption metric, and/or build metric for the different potential builds for use in selecting a chosen potential build of the different potential builds. The chosen potential build is used to build the multi-vehicle system for the upcoming trip.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

identifying, with one or more processors, vehicles to be included in a vehicle system that is to travel along one or more routes for an upcoming trip;
determining, with the one or more processors, plural different builds of the vehicle system with at least some of the vehicles;
simulating, with the one or more processors, travels of the different builds of the vehicle system over the one or more routes of the upcoming trip;
and
generating, with the one or more processors, a quantified evaluation of one or more safety metrics, consumption metrics, or build metrics for the different builds of the vehicle system for use in selecting a chosen build of the different builds, wherein the chosen build is used to build the vehicle system for the upcoming trip.

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Facts

Application

16/517,889Filed 22 Jul 2019 · continuation in part

Priority

27 Mar 2014

Published

US 2019/0367062 A15 Dec 2019

Granted

19 Jan 2021

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

B61L 27/12
Operations, e.g. scheduling or time tables: preparing schedules
B61L 17/00
Switching systems for classification yards
B61L 27/14
Operations, e.g. scheduling or time tables: following schedules
B61L 27/16
Operations, e.g. scheduling or time tables: trackside optimisation of vehicle or train operation

Family

Application14/226,921Parent of this division · filed 27 Mar 2014

Application15/089,574Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 3 Apr 2016

US 9,327,741 B2Parent of this division · filed 3 May 2016

Application15/992,749Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 30 May 2018

US 10,220,864 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 5 Mar 2019

US 2019/0367062 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Dec 2019

US 10,399,584 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part

Application15/089,574Parent of this division

US 2015/0274184 A1Published application

US 2016/0214632 A1Published application

US 2018/0273064 A1Published application

US 10,894,552 B2This patent

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System and method integrating an energy management system and yard planner system

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