Method and apparatus for automatic selection of train activity locations
First Claim
1. In a railway scheduling system in which each resource used in each scheduled activity has an incremental cost associated with it, and in which the location at which local activities are to be performed must be selected in the scheduling process, the automatic selection of a location by the movement planner for specifically identified trains to which local movement activities have been scheduled.
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Abstract
A scheduling system and method for moving plural objects through a system described as a freight railway scheduling system. The scheduling system utilizes a cost reactive resource scheduler to minimize resource exception while at the same time minimizing the global costs associated with the solution. The achievable movement plan can be used to assist in the control of, or to automatically control, the movement of trains through the system. The actual location where an activity is to be performed is automatically selected as a function of one or more specified criteria.
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- 1. In a railway scheduling system in which each resource used in each scheduled activity has an incremental cost associated with it, and in which the location at which local activities are to be performed must be selected in the scheduling process, the automatic selection of a location by the movement planner for specifically identified trains to which local movement activities have been scheduled.
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6. In a railroad system in which plural trains are moved along a network of railway tracks under control of a dispatcher assisted by a scheduling computer prepared movement plan that assigns resources to activities and considers the cost of each activity and assigned resources in scheduling the movement of trains over the tracks, a method of automatically selecting a location for the performance of local activity within a geographic area for an identified train comprising the steps of:
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(a) establishing an activity profile for each of the available locations within the geographic area;
(b) establishing criteria for the selection of a location;
(c) establishing a movement plan for an identified train requiring a local activity using the established criteria to automatically select a location at which the activity is to be performed. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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