Train control systems with hazard management and associated methods
AssigneeSiemens Mobility GmbH
InventorPeter Zwolinski
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Abstract
A train control system includes an onboard unit configured to be installed in a locomotive of a train, a back office server system, a hazard management system, and a communication network configured to interface with the onboard unit, the back office server system and the hazard management system, wherein the hazard management system is configured to collect and process hazard related information, and wherein the hazard management system is configured to determine vital and non-vital hazard information based on the hazard related information and to communicate the vital and non-vital information to the onboard unit.
Claims11
A train control system comprising:
- an onboard unit (OBU) configured to be installed in a locomotive of a train,
- wherein the OBU comprises a hazard extension,
- a back office server (BOS) system,
- a hazard management system,
- wherein the hazard management system is integrated in the BOS system,
- a vital train tracker operably coupled to the hazard management system, and
- a communication network configured to interface with the OBU, the BOS system and the hazard management system,
- wherein the hazard management system is configured to collect and process hazard related information, and
- wherein the hazard management system is configured to determine vital and non-vital hazard information based on the hazard related information and to communicate the vital and non-vital information to the hazard extension of the OBU, the hazard extension being configured to receive and process the vital and non-vital hazard information, and
- wherein the vital train tracker is configured to receive and process information from an end-of-train device attached at a rear of a first train, and wherein the information includes positioning information to determine a vital hazard based on a distance between the first train and a second train,
- wherein the BOS system is operably coupled to a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system, the CAD system being configured to receive and display the vital and non-vital hazard information from the hazard management system, and
- wherein the CAD system is configured to receive manually entered hazard information and provide the manually entered hazard information to the hazard management system for further processing.
A method for handling hazard information, the method comprising:
- collecting hazard related information by a hazard management system of a train control system, wherein the hazard management system is integrated in back office server (BOS) system,
- determining vital and non-vital hazard information based on the collected hazard related information by the hazard management system,
- communicating, by the hazard management system, the vital and non-vital hazard information to an onboard unit (OBU), the OBU being installed in a locomotive of a train and comprising a hazard extension,
- receiving and processing the vital and non-vital hazard information by the hazard extension of the OBU during operation of the train, and
- vitally tracking trains by a vital train tracker, the vital train tracker being configured to collect and process information from an end-of-train device attached at a rear of a first train, wherein the information includes positioning information of the end-of train device to determine a vital hazard based on a distance between the first train and a second train,
- wherein the BOS system is operably coupled to a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system, the CAD system being configured to receive and display the vital and non-vital hazard information from the hazard management system, and
- wherein the CAD system is configured to receive manually entered hazard information and provide the manually entered hazard information to the hazard management system for further processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.