METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY INFLUENCING TRACK-BOUND VEHICLES
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Abstract
In a normal operating mode, track-bound vehicles report their respective position to a track-side device and the track-side device determines a respective movement authority taking into account the reported positions for the track-bound vehicles and transmits the movement authorities to the respective track-bound vehicle. If a track-bound vehicles is faulty and cannot ensure its integrity, and it is consequently not able to report a valid or reliable position, a switch-over into a fault mode takes place without interrupting the travel operation of the track-bound vehicles. In the fault mode the faulty track-bound vehicle determines a position of one of its vehicle ends and reports the position together with information that it cannot ensure its integrity, to the track-side device. Movement authorities are then determined by the track-side device, taking into account the reported position of the one vehicle end and track vacancy information of a track-side track vacancy system.
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24 Claims
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13. A method of automatically controlling track-bound vehicles, wherein, in a normal operating mode:
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the track-bound vehicles report their respective positions to a track-side device; and the trackside device determines a respective movement authority for the track-bound vehicles, taking into account the positions reported by the track-bound vehicles, and the movement authority is transmitted to the respective track-bound vehicle; the method comprising; in the event that one of the track-bound vehicles is a faulty track-bound vehicle whose integrity cannot be guaranteed, switching over to a fault mode without interrupting a travel operation of the track-bound vehicles; and in the fault mode; causing the faulty track-bound vehicle to determine a position of one vehicle end thereof and to report the position of the one vehicle end to the track-side device together with an item of information indicating that its integrity cannot be guaranteed; and determining the movement authorities for the track-bound vehicles with the track-side device and, with respect to the faulty track-bound vehicle, taking into account the reported position of the one vehicle end and, in respect of the other vehicle end, an item of vacancy reporting information of a track-side vacancy reporting system. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A device for automatically controlling track-bound vehicles, the device comprising:
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vehicle-side devices disposed on the track-bound vehicles and a track-side device configured to operate in a normal operating mode and in a fault mode; in the normal operating mode; said vehicle-side devices report a position of the respective track-bound vehicle to said track-side device; said track-side device determines a respective movement authority, taking account of the reported positions of the track-bound vehicles and transmits the movement authority to said vehicle-side device of the respective track-bound vehicle; said track-side device being configured, in the event that one of the track-bound vehicles is a faulty track-bound vehicle to the effect that the track-bound vehicle cannot guarantee its integrity, without interrupting a travel operation of the track-bound vehicles, said track-side device switches over into the fault mode; and in the fault mode; said vehicle-side device of the faulty track-bound vehicle being configured to determine a position of one of its vehicle ends and to report the position to said track-side device together with an item of information indicating that the faulty track-bound vehicle cannot guarantee its integrity; and said track-side device being configured to determine the movement authorities for the track-bound vehicles and, with regard to the faulty track-bound vehicle, to take into account, in respect of the one vehicle end, the reported position and, in respect of the other vehicle end, an item of vacancy reporting information of a track-side vacancy reporting system. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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