In an example, the autonomous vehicle (AV) can be configured among the other vehicles and railway to communicate with a rider on a peer to peer basis to pick up the rider on demand from a location on a track, like a railway, tram or other track, rather than the rider being held hostage to a fixed railway schedule. The rider can have an application on his/her cell phone, which tracks each of the AVs, and contact them using the application on the cell phone. In an example, the AV is configured for both on-track and off track operation with different operating parameters for on-track and off track, including speed, degree of autonomy, sensors used etc.

The present disclosure relates to a train autonomous control system (TACS) based method for train interval protection control, and an apparatus for the method. The method includes: step one: receiving, by a carborne controller (CC), a train operation command sent by an automatic train supervision (ATS) system to obtain a movement mission; step two: calculating, by the CC, a train guaranteed zone in real time according to information of train localization, car characteristics, and carborne controller characteristics; step three: calculating, by the CC, track resources required to be used in combination with current mission information according to the train guaranteed zone, and requesting to a wayside information control (WSIC) for information of collided trains occupying these track resources; and step four: sending, by the WSIC, a list of the collided trains on the track resources required to be used to the CC according to information of the track resources required to be occupied by a train on a whole line. Compared to the prior art, the present disclosure has the advantages of high operation efficiency, communication resource saving, reliability, safety, etc.

Method and system for autonomously transporting people and/or goods. The method includes requesting conveyance of a payload from a designated area to a destination, autonomously moving at least one module to the designated area, loading the at least one module with a payload within the designated area, and, via the at least one module, autonomously transporting the payload to the destination.

According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed herein of wireless locomotive emergency stop systems. Also disclosed are exemplary methods of providing locomotives with wireless emergency stop systems, and exemplary methods of operating wireless locomotive emergency stop systems.

A method of departure management of an automated guided vehicle and a departure management system of an automated guided vehicle for performing the same estimates a first moving time which is a moving time of a reference automated guided vehicle from a current point to a destination point, and a limit waiting time, and adjust a departure time of the automated guided vehicle from the current point. In addition, when a destination point facility is out of order, the method of departure management of the automated guided vehicle and the departure management system of the automated guided vehicle for performing the same may determine a failure response command for the reference automated guided vehicle based on an estimated repair time of the destination point facility, and provide a failure response command to the reference automated guided vehicle.

A system and method includes commencing movement of a vehicle system including a plurality of vehicles from a stationary state. Operation of the vehicle system is controlled to control spacing between the vehicles of the vehicle system.

The present invention relates to a train autonomous control system and method based on train-to-train communication. The control system includes an automatic train supervision system ATS, an object controller OC, a train-mounted subsystem CC, a tag reader subsystem, a query transponder, and a data communication system DCS, the automatic train supervision system ATS is connected to the train-mounted subsystem CC, and the train-mounted subsystems CC of adjacent trains are in communication connection with each other, and the control system further includes a railside resource manager WRC, and the railside resource manager WRC is respectively connected to the automatic train supervision system ATS, the train-mounted subsystem CC, the object controller OC, the tag reader subsystem, and the query transponder. Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the advantages of reducing a transmission link of data information over a network, improving operation efficiency of the system, and the like.

The present invention relates to an integration-oriented intelligent speed trajectory optimization method and system for an autonomous train. The method includes: constructing an autonomous train speed trajectory optimization model under virtual coupling based on a discrete distance; converting the autonomous train speed trajectory optimization model into a Markov decision process; using a deep reinforcement learning algorithm TD3 to train a neural network and an agent in the Markov decision process, to obtain a trained neural network and agent; and deploying the trained neural network and agent to an autonomous train, to perform an autonomous train speed trajectory optimization decision, so that safe, efficient, and comfortable train autonomous operations can be implemented.

Disclosed herein is a motorized railway safety cart, comprising a) a chassis adapted with rail-guided carriages configured to travel along rails, and interconnected by a base frame, b) a driving unit for driving wheels attached to at least one of said rail-guided carriages, c) a control module for controlling the operation of said motorized railway safety cart, and d) a communication module, said cart is configured to automatically travel along a railway track to a designated location thereof and is further configured with one or more safety measures for performing safety tasks thereat, such as alerting or triggering preventive measures that can restrict passage into a predefined track work zone. Also disclosed herein is a deployment system that facilitates a remotely controlled deployment of said motorized railway safety cart.

A train operation control system and method based on train-ground coordination are provided. The system includes a dispatching center server, a resource management unit (RMU) for ground train control equipment, and on-board train control equipment (CC), wherein the dispatching center server is connected via communication to the on-board CC, and the on-board CC is connected via communication to the RMU for the ground train control equipment; and the RMU for the ground train control equipment and the on-board CC coordinatively complete resource management and implement train operation control, wherein the resource management is divided into two levels, at a first level, the RMU is responsible for performing the resource management in the unit of section, and at a second level, a preceding train and a succeeding train interact with each other via direct train-to-train communication, such that finer resource sharing in a section is achieved between the trains.