公开(公告)号：US20190168728A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-06

申请号：US15829423

申请日：2017-12-01

申请人： Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

发明人： Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian ,  M. Frank Wilson

IPC分类号： B60T13/66 ,  B60T17/22 ,  B61C17/12 ,  B60T13/36

摘要： In a method of braking a number of rail cars of a train travelling on a mainline track, in response to a unique braking command provided to each rail car of a first subset of rail cars, wherein each braking command includes a level or percentage of braking the brakes of the rail car are to assume, the brakes of the rail car are set to level or percentage of braking included in the unique braking command provided to the rail car. Thereafter, in response to a unique braking command provided to each rail car of a second, different subset of rail cars, the brakes of the rail car are set to level or percentage of braking included in the unique braking command provided to the rail car.