General Electric Company

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

Ge Global Sourcing LLC

Lindsay Short

Jeffrey John Wolff

Henry Todd Young

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Mark Allen Murphy

Edward Thomas Petrak

Carlos Vallejo

George J Wnukoski

Kenneth Paul Nedley

Larry Bench

Ronald Fischer

Michael Wagner

Justin Chadwell

Jason Daniel Kuttenkuler

Sean Patrick Cillessen

Timothy Warren Brown

Aaron Craig Mellinger

James Allen Oswald

Timothy F Brown

James Edward Trainor

Sean Cillessen

A monitoring system and method determine a consumption metric representative of one or more of an amount of fuel consumed or an amount of energy consumed by a vehicle during travel over a route. The consumption metric is independent of one or more of vehicle load or elevation change over the route. The system and method optionally can determine a route condition metric representative of a condition of a route traveled upon by a vehicle. The route condition metric is based on a comparison between an actual grade of the route at one or more locations along the route and an estimated grade of the route at the one or more locations.

Vehicle consumption monitoring system and method

System and method configured to determine a direction of movement of a vehicle in response to a brake being released or in response to initiating movement of the vehicle from a stopped position along a route. The direction of movement is determined based on a selected travel direction of the vehicle, a grade of the route, and at least one of applied tractive efforts or applied braking efforts.

Vehicle control system and method

A vehicle control system determines an upper non-zero limit on deceleration of a vehicle to prevent rollback of the vehicle down a grade being traveled up on by the vehicle. The upper non-zero limit on deceleration is determined by the controller based on a payload carried by the vehicle, a speed of the vehicle, and a grade of a route being traveled upon by the vehicle. The controller is configured to monitor the deceleration of the vehicle, and to automatically prevent the deceleration of the vehicle from exceeding the upper non-zero limit by controlling one or more of a brake or a motor of the vehicle. The controller also is configured to one or more of actuate the brake or supply current to the motor of the vehicle to prevent rollback of the vehicle while the vehicle is moving up the grade at a non-zero speed.

System and method for controlling a vehicle

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