Method of planning the movement of trains using pre-allocation of resources
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1. A method of scheduling the movement of plural trains over a rail system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) identifying the plural trains to be scheduled;
(b) generating a first movement plan for the plural trains;
(c) determining the efficiency of the generated first movement plan;
(d) adding at least one virtual consist to be scheduled;
(e) generating a second movement plan for the plural trains and the virtual consist;
(f) determining the efficiency of the generated second movement plan;
(g) evaluating the efficiencies of the first and second movement plans;
(h) selecting the first or second movement plan to control the movement of the plural trains as a function of the evaluated efficiencies.
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Abstract
A method of scheduling the movement of trains using the creation and the pre-allocation of virtual resources in order to develop an optimized schedule of actual train movement.
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1. A method of scheduling the movement of plural trains over a rail system, comprising the steps of:
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(a) identifying the plural trains to be scheduled; (b) generating a first movement plan for the plural trains; (c) determining the efficiency of the generated first movement plan; (d) adding at least one virtual consist to be scheduled; (e) generating a second movement plan for the plural trains and the virtual consist; (f) determining the efficiency of the generated second movement plan; (g) evaluating the efficiencies of the first and second movement plans; (h) selecting the first or second movement plan to control the movement of the plural trains as a function of the evaluated efficiencies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of scheduling the movement of an actual consist over a rail system, comprising the steps of:
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(a) identifying the actual consist to be scheduled; (b) adding at least one virtual consist to be scheduled; (c) generating a movement plan of the actual and virtual consists; (d) controlling the movement of the actual consists in accordance with generated movement plan. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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