Alstom Transport Technologies

General Electric Company

Alstom Holdings

James Kiss

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Jared Klineman Cooper

Wolfgang Daum

Mark Bradshaw Kraeling

Eugene Andrew Smith

Jeffrey Michael Fries

Glenn Robert Shaffer

Steven Andrew Kellner

Nicholas Nagrodsky

Daniel Malachi Ballesty

Glen Paul Peltonen

John Welsh McElroy

Daniel F Wolf

Leonard Hill

Steven Ray Murphy

Bradley Charles Hendrickson

Richard Lawson

Gerald James Hess

John Hounschell

Charles Terra

Steven Matthew Pelkowski

Laura Melnik

Leonard Michael Hill

System for determining train information relative to a train moving along a railway track having a pressure measuring device placed along the railway track and arranged to measure the speed of an airflow generated by the train when moving on the railway track, and to generate a speed signal; and a controller arranged to receive said speed signal and to determine train information relative to the train in function of said speed signal.

System and method for determining train information relative to a train moving along a railway track

A wayside communication system for transmitting coded current signals through running rails of a railroad track between wayside control devices. A power line common to the wayside control devices is used as the return path for the current signals. The system features train and broken rail detection. The system allows sending signals long distances since rail to rail current leakage is no longer an issue.

Wayside communication system using power grid lines

An automated signaling equipment inspection system is provided. The system includes signaling equipment, a LiDAR imaging device permanently installed close to the signaling equipment at a position and with an orientation allowing complete imaging of the orientation and configuration in space of the signaling equipment and of any potential movement of the signaling equipment during its operation, an image data processing device for detecting a non-conformity of the signaling equipment, and a reference image database storing reference image data of the signaling equipment. The LiDAR imaging device is configured to scan the signaling equipment to obtain real image data thereof. The image data processing device is configured to detect a non-conformity of the signaling equipment by comparing the real image data with reference image data taken from the reference image database.

Stationary automated signaling equipment inspection system using lidar

A first unit configured to generate and transmit a code of positive and negative DC pulses through a first rail of a railway. A second unit spaced from the first unit and configured to sense the code, which includes a leading code word, having a positive or negative timing pulse followed after a first data interval by a positive or negative data pulse, followed by a modifying code word. The modifying code word consists of a second positive or negative timing pulse followed after a second data interval by a second positive or negative data pulse. The second timing pulse starts after one code cycle from the start of the leading code word timing pulse. The second timing pulse and the second data pulse duplicate the timing pulse and the data pulse of the same polarity, but invert the timing pulse and the data pulse of opposite polarities.

Railway code generation and signaling system and method

A method for detecting railway vacancy is provided. The method includes sensing, at a remote sensing unit positioned proximate to a railway, a presence of a railcar traversing the railway. The method also includes storing, in real-time, at the remote sensing unit, a sensing event indicative of the sensed presence of the railcar traversing the railway and transmitting, asynchronously from the time at which the presence of the railcar was sensed at the remote sensing unit, the stored sensing event to a master accumulation unit.

Methods and system for detecting railway vacancy

A locomotive () is operable in two or more distinct configurations, with the change in configuration being response to a configuration input signal (). A locomotive configuration is represented by the set of end use device control signals () that are generated by the locomotive control systems () in response to the respective set of operational input values (). For a given set of operational input values, a first set of end use device control signals is generated when a configuration input has a first value, and a second set of end use device control signals is generated when a configuration input has a second value. The configuration input variable is responsive to an emission profile associated with the locomotive location. A value of a locomotive emission parameter corresponding to the emission profile is monitored and saved in a storage device (e.g.,).

System and method for managing emissions from mobile vehicles

In a distributed power railroad train, an apparatus for equalizing the equalizing reservoir pressure in the remote power unit and the brake pipe pressure. With these pressures equal, the remote unit cannot charge the brake pipe while the lead unit attempts to vent the brake pipe to command a brake application at the railcars of the train.

Locomotive brake pipe valve cut-out failure detection and correction

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Melbourne, FL, United States of America

James Kiss