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Scheduler and method for managing unpredictable local trains

  • US 20060212187A1
  • Filed: 01/31/2006
  • Published: 09/21/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of scheduling the sporadic use of the main railway track of a railway network to local trains in which one or more multiple car throughway trains are moved along the main railway track under control of a dispatcher assisted by a scheduling computer prepared plan, comprising:

  • (a) electronically receiving a request for a work order for a local train to use the main railway track in a dispatching computer;

    (b) displaying the work request as an unassigned work request for the dispatcher;

    (c) selecting the displayed unassigned work request to be performed by a selected local train;

    (d) electronic sending the selected work request for the selected local train to the scheduling computer;

    (e) planning the movement of the local train in the scheduling computer; and

    (f) electronically communicating to the dispatching computer that the work request has been planned for the selected train.

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