Train control system and train control method including virtual train stop
AssigneeSiemens Mobility GmbH
InventorsBruno Fiquet, William Conis
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Abstract
A train control system includes an onboard equipment with a wireless receiver and connected to a railway vehicle, a wayside equipment with a wireless transmitter and assigned to an interlocking entry point, wherein the interlocking entry point includes a home signal, wherein the wayside equipment is configured to wirelessly transmit status data of the home signal to the onboard equipment of the railway vehicle when approaching the interlocking entry point via a wireless communication link, and wherein the onboard equipment is configured to receive the status data of the home signal via the wireless communication link and to determine a distance between the railway vehicle and the interlocking entry point.
Claims20
A train control system comprising:
- an onboard equipment connected to a railway vehicle and comprising a wireless receiver;
- an interlocking controlling railway traffic utilizing interlocking signal equipment, the interlocking comprising solid state interlocking (SSI) or relay-based interlocking, wherein the signal equipment comprises an interlocking entry point and a home signal;
- a wayside equipment comprising a wireless transmitter and assigned to the interlocking entry point;
- wherein the wayside equipment is configured to wirelessly transmit status data of the home signal to the onboard equipment of the railway vehicle when approaching the interlocking entry point via a wireless communication link, and
- wherein the onboard equipment is configured to receive the status data of the home signal via the wireless communication link and to determine a distance between the railway vehicle and the interlocking entry point.
A train control method comprising:
- wirelessly transmitting, by a railway wayside equipment, status data of a home signal at an interlocking entry point of an interlocking to an onboard equipment of a railway vehicle when the railway vehicle approaches the interlocking entry point;
- wirelessly receiving, by the onboard equipment, the status data of the home signal;
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- determining, by the onboard equipment, a distance between the railway vehicle and the interlocking entry point,
- wherein the interlocking controls railway traffic utilizing interlocking signal equipment, and wherein the interlocking comprises solid state interlocking (SSI) or relay-based interlocking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.