公开(公告)号：US09896115B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-20

申请号：US15192202

申请日：2016-06-24

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Mitchell Scott Wills ,  Mahir Erdem Telatar ,  Jian Li ,  Trevor Fletcher ,  David Peltz

IPC: B61L27/00 ,  B61L17/02

CPC classification number: B61L27/0016 ,  B61L17/02 ,  B61L27/0005 ,  B61L27/0077

Abstract: A terminal operating system includes one or more processors configured to obtain one or more parameters of non-propulsion-generating cargo vehicles and to determine which of the non-propulsion-generating cargo vehicles are to be included in a vehicle system assembled in a terminal or yard based on the one or more parameters. The one or more parameters include one or more of an earliest time of availability at which cargo equipment will be available in the terminal or yard, a safety operational characteristic, an efficiency operational characteristic of the one or more non-propulsion-generating cargo vehicles, and/or a priority parameter of the one or more non-propulsion-generating cargo vehicles. The one or more processors are configured to automatically direct equipment within the terminal or yard to assemble the vehicle system based on the one or more parameters.