US 2026/0167239 A1Published application

Dynamic and adaptive dispatch system

AssigneeSiemens Mobility GmbH

InventorsHeinrich Helmut Degen, Georgi Markov, Monica McKenna, Peter Zwolinski, Robert Street

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Abstract

State-of-the-art CAD systems provide a static view of a given territory with real-time information. For example, in various abnormal situations, dispatchers might be actively involved in understanding what caused the situation and what happened during the situation, so as to identify and initiate corrective actions for the situation, but current CAD systems often do not actively support dispatchers in these tasks. Thus, addressing abnormal situations can take an unnecessarily long time or be inefficient, which can reduce train throughput or cause train delays, among other negative effects. A system can be configured to generate various adaptive interfaces to dispatchers so that abnormal situations can be efficiently and effectively processed and addressed by the system.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A train computing system comprising:

an interface configured to display data associated with a plurality of trains and a plurality of track segments along which the trains travel, to a dispatcher;
a processor;
and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the train computing system to:
receive field data that corresponds to current operations of the plurality of trains or the plurality of track segments;
receive a plan that corresponds to intended operations of the plurality of trains or the plurality of track segments;
make a comparison of the field data to the plan;
based on the comparison, determine a plurality of abnormal situations associated with the plurality of trains or the plurality of track segments;
and
determining an order associated with the plurality of abnormal situations, the order based on an urgency in addressing each abnormal situation in the plurality of abnormal situations, wherein
the interface is further configured to display the plurality of abnormal situations in the order based on the urgency.

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A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory tangible storage device having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processing system to perform operations comprising:

displaying data, by an interface to a dispatcher, associated with a plurality of trains and a plurality of track segments along which the trains travel;
receiving field data that corresponds to current operations of the plurality of trains or the plurality of track segments;
receiving a plan that corresponds to intended operations of the plurality of trains or the plurality of track segments;
making a comparison of the field data to the plan;
based on the comparison, determining a plurality of abnormal situations associated with the plurality of trains or the plurality of track segments;
determining an order associated with the plurality of abnormal situations, the order based on an urgency in addressing each abnormal situation in the plurality of abnormal situations;
and
displaying the plurality of abnormal situations in the order based on the urgency.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/980,632Filed 13 Dec 2024
Published: 18 Jun 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

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
B61L 25/08
Indicating or recording the setting of track apparatus, e.g. of points, of signals: diagrammatic displays
B61L 27/04
Central railway traffic control systems; Trackside control; Communication systems specially adapted therefor: automatic systems, e.g. controlled…