A system and method for automating railroad maintenance by a tie gang using electronic tie marking (ETM) configured to optimize railroad asset maintenance. The system enables collision avoidance between members of the tie gang performing maintenance on railway assets (e.g., Rails, Ties, Ballasts, Turnouts, Crossings, etc.). The system can generate production numbers for the railway assets and evaluate an asset queue for the tie gang to perform maintenance. The system can utilize real-time updates from the tie gang to optimize work output. The system can provide a customizable user interface to identify, track, and process information related to maintenance of the railroad asset. The system also provides for a heads-up-display (HUD) to notify an operator of relevant information, such as maintenance information, travel indicators, and updated asset queue. The system can identify a next location and calculate an optimum path based on sensor input incorporating machine-specific and environmental characteristics.

A control system is provided that obtains a movement plan that includes schedules for movements of vehicle systems traveling in a network of routes. The movement plan may be generated by a network control system located off-board the vehicle systems. The control system may obtain pacing directives associated with different segment of the routes that a first vehicle system of the vehicle systems is traveling or will travel on according to the movement plan. The pacing directives may dictate upper limits and/or lower limits on movement of the first vehicle system in the different segments of the routes while the vehicle systems are traveling according to the schedules of the movement plan. The control system may control movement of the first vehicle system to meet the schedules of the movement plan while the first vehicle system moves according to the pacing directives in the corresponding different segments of the routes.

The present invention makes it possible to supply transportation capacity suitable for movement demand in numerous circumstances. A timetable modification device for changing a timetable representing a train control target, in accordance with a movement demand prediction result indicating, for each time period, the number and destination of passengers at each station at which the train stops, the timetable modification device having a violation position extraction program P01a for calculating the degree of congestion of a train on the basis of predicted demand information representing a movement demand prediction result and extracting a violation position at which the degree of congestion is outside a predetermined allowed range, and a timetable correction program P01b for changing a timetable so as to include a change in the destination of the train so that the degree of congestion of the violation position is within the allowed range or so that the degree of congestion of the violation position approaches the allowed range.

The present invention makes it possible to supply transportation capacity suitable for movement demand in numerous circumstances. A timetable modification device for changing a timetable representing a train control target, in accordance with a movement demand prediction result indicating, for each time period, the number and destination of passengers at each station at which the train stops, the timetable modification device having a violation position extraction program P01a for calculating the degree of congestion of a train on the basis of predicted demand information representing a movement demand prediction result and extracting a violation position at which the degree of congestion is outside a predetermined allowed range, and a timetable correction program P01b for changing a timetable so as to include a change in the destination of the train so that the degree of congestion of the violation position is within the allowed range or so that the degree of congestion of the violation position approaches the allowed range.

A train dispatching method includes acquiring a battery state of a power battery of a first target train, and determining that the first target train is a train about to return to the garage if the battery state is a power shortage state. The method further includes controlling the first target train to travel back to the parking garage for charging in response to receiving a passenger-drop-off completion instruction, selecting a train in a power sufficient state as a second target train from assignable trains in the parking garage if the battery state is the power shortage state, determining target dispatching plan information of the second target train according to original dispatching plan information of the first target train, and dispatching the second target train according to the target dispatching plan information.

A train dispatching method includes acquiring a battery state of a power battery of a first target train, and determining that the first target train is a train about to return to the garage if the battery state is a power shortage state. The method further includes controlling the first target train to travel back to the parking garage for charging in response to receiving a passenger-drop-off completion instruction, selecting a train in a power sufficient state as a second target train from assignable trains in the parking garage if the battery state is the power shortage state, determining target dispatching plan information of the second target train according to original dispatching plan information of the first target train, and dispatching the second target train according to the target dispatching plan information.

A system and method for automating railroad maintenance by a tie gang using electronic tie marking (ETM) configured to optimize railroad asset maintenance. The system enables collision avoidance between members of the tie gang performing maintenance on railway assets (e.g., Rails, Ties, Ballasts, Turnouts, Crossings, etc.). The system can generate production numbers for the railway assets and evaluate an asset queue for the tie gang to perform maintenance. The system can utilize real-time updates from the tie gang to optimize work output. The system can provide a customizable user interface to identify, track, and process information related to maintenance of the railroad asset. The system also provides for a heads-up-display (HUD) to notify an operator of relevant information, such as maintenance information, travel indicators, and updated asset queue. The system can identify a next location and calculate an optimum path based on sensor input incorporating machine-specific and environmental characteristics.

A system and method for automating railroad maintenance by a tie gang using electronic tie marking (ETM) configured to optimize railroad asset maintenance. The system enables collision avoidance between members of the tie gang performing maintenance on railway assets (e.g., Rails, Ties, Ballasts, Turnouts, Crossings, etc.). The system can generate production numbers for the railway assets and evaluate an asset queue for the tie gang to perform maintenance. The system can utilize real-time updates from the tie gang to optimize work output. The system can provide a customizable user interface to identify, track, and process information related to maintenance of the railroad asset. The system also provides for a heads-up-display (HUD) to notify an operator of relevant information, such as maintenance information, travel indicators, and updated asset queue. The system can identify a next location and calculate an optimum path based on sensor input incorporating machine-specific and environmental characteristics.

A route control program generation device constructs a group of a plurality of environment models with different states in which the states of the plurality of environment models are changed in various manners. The environment model is constituted by a first moving body that is a control target and is present on a track divided into a plurality of sections, and a second moving body other than the control target, and searches for a state transition order where it is possible to achieve a request for causing the first moving body to move to a prescribed section by causing the first moving body to move to a destination while causing a state of one environment model to transition to a state of another environment model in response to the request. The route control program generation device constructs the group to match a prescribed restriction condition based on the restriction condition.

A train dispatching method includes acquiring a battery state of a power battery of a first target train, and determining that the first target train is a train about to return to the garage if the battery state is a power shortage state. The method further includes controlling the first target train to travel back to the parking garage for charging in response to receiving a passenger-drop-off completion instruction, selecting a train in a power sufficient state as a second target train from assignable trains in the parking garage if the battery state is the power shortage state, determining target dispatching plan information of the second target train according to original dispatching plan information of the first target train, and dispatching the second target train according to the target dispatching plan information.