Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Railway vehicle
Patent
1998-09-11
2000-11-07
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Railway vehicle
701 20, G05B 1700
Patent
active
061449016
ABSTRACT:
A method of optimizing train operation includes determining conditions of location, track profile and train forces of the train. Next, a set of preliminary train restraint operating parameters are determined from the determined conditions. Also, at least one of a set of preliminary train optimizable operating parameters to minimize train forces, to maximize fuel efficiency and to minimize time to destination is determined. The determined set of preliminary train operating parameters are weighted and combined. Optimized train operating parameters are determined from the weighted and combined preliminary train operating parameters. Engineering train and access is also performed.
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Database WPI, Section PQ, Week 9751, Derwent ZPublications Ltd., London, GB; Class Q18 AN 97-550428, no date.
Beck Marshall G.
Haley John E.
Hawthorne Michael J.
McLaughlin Bryan M.
Nickles Stephen K.
Beaulieu Yonel
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
New York Air Brake Corporation
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