General Electric Company

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

Brad Thomas Costa

Mark Bradshaw Kraeling

Glenn Robert Shaffer

Nidhi Naithani

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao

Wing Yeung Chung

Jeffrey James Kisak

Scott Daniel Nelson

Anju Bind

Sreyashi Dey Chaki

Michael Scott Miner

Shannon Joseph Clouse

Nikhil Uday Naphade

Anwarul Azam

Matthew Lawrence Blair

Dale Martin DiDomenico

Seneca Snyder

Jerry Duncan

Daniel Malachi Ballesty

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Jared Klineman Cooper

Wolfgang Daum

Joseph Forrest Noffsinger

Sethu K Madhavan

Paul Kenneth Houpt

Daniel Joseph Rush

David Lowell McKay

Martin Paget

Suresh Govindappa

Manibabu Pippalla

Arunachala Karthik Sridharan

Prabhu Marimuthu

Aadeesh Shivkant Bhagwatkar

Sharon DSouza

Krishna Chaitanya Narra

Daniel Malachi Bellesty

System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.

Vehicle control system and method

An aerial system and method use a distance sensor to measure spatial distances between the distance sensor and plural vehicles in a vehicle system formed from the vehicles operably coupled with each other during relative movement between the distance sensor and the vehicle system. The spatial distances measured by the distance sensor are used to determine a size parameter of the vehicle system based on the spatial distances that are measured.

Aerial camera system and method for determining size parameters of vehicle systems

An aerial camera system includes an aerial device disposed onboard a non-aerial vehicle as the non-aerial vehicle moves along a route. The aerial device also can be configured to fly above the route during movement of the vehicle along the route. The camera unit is configured to be disposed onboard the aerial device and to generate image data during flight of the aerial device. The one or more image analysis processors are configured to examine the image data and to identify a hazard disposed ahead of the non-aerial vehicle along a direction of travel of the non-aerial vehicle based on the image data. A method for identifying route-related hazards using image data obtained from a camera unit on an aerial device.

Aerial camera system and method for identifying route-related hazards

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