Vehicle control system

A system comprising:

• one or more processors configured to receive trip information that identifies a scheduled route of a first vehicle system, a time of the year that the first vehicle travels the scheduled route, and vehicle characteristics of the first vehicle system,
• the one or more processors configured to compare the trip information to historical data of deration events experienced by plural vehicle systems to predict that the first vehicle will experience a deration event at one or more designated geographic locations along the scheduled route at the time of the year, the historical data including at least geographic locations of the deration events and times of the year in which the deration events occurred,
• the one or more processors configured to generate control signals to control movement of the first vehicle system along the scheduled route, based on the prediction, such that the first vehicle system does not derate at the one or more designated geographic locations along the scheduled route at the time of the year,
• wherein the control signals are generated to one or more of (i) reduce a power output provided by the first vehicle system or (ii) redistribute power outputs provided by multiple propulsion-generating vehicles of the first vehicle system when traveling through the one or more designated geographic locations to modify movement of the first vehicle system relative to the movement of the first vehicle system responsive to predicting that the first vehicle system will not experience the deration event.