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Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

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Martin Paget

Joseph Forrest Noffsinger

Jeffrey Michael Fries

Aaron Richard Mitti

William David Shields

Aric Albert Weingartner

Curtis Doyle Mechling

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Jared Klineman Cooper

Wolfgang Daum

Mark Bradshaw Kraeling

Sethu K Madhavan

Glenn Robert Shaffer

Paul Kenneth Houpt

Nidhi Naithani

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao

Wing Yeung Chung

Jeffrey James Kisak

Scott Daniel Nelson

Anju Bind

Sreyashi Dey Chaki

Daniel Joseph Rush

David Lowell McKay

Michael Scott Miner

Shannon Joseph Clouse

Nikhil Uday Naphade

Matthew Lawrence Blair

Anwarul Azam

Dale Martin DiDomenico

Seneca Snyder

Richard Lee Lawson

Brad Thomas Costa

Jerry Duncan

Suresh Govindappa

Manibabu Pippalla

Arunachala Karthik Sridharan

Prabhu Marimuthu

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

A monitoring method and system monitor a transmitted current that is injected into conductive components of a route traveled by vehicle systems, monitor a received current that represents a portion of the transmitted current that is conducted through the conductive components of the route, examine changes in the transmitted and/or received current over time to determine when the vehicle systems are on the route between a first location where the transmitted current is injected into the conductive components and a second location where the received current is monitored, and examine the changes in the transmitted and/or received currents. The changes are examined to identify (a) a contaminated portion of a surface on which the route is disposed, (b) a foreign object other than the vehicle systems that is contacting the route, and/or (c) a damaged or broken portion of at least one of the conductive components of the route.

Route monitoring system and method

A method for predicting failure of a crossing warning system is disclosed. The method includes monitoring an electrical characteristic of a first route when an electric current is injected into the first route. The first route has a crossing intersection with a second route and a crossing signal at the crossing intersection. The electrical characteristic is monitored to detect when a vehicle is approaching the crossing intersection on the first route and to determine when to activate the crossing signal at the crossing intersection. The method also includes identifying one or more changes in the electrical characteristic of the first route, and, based on the one or more changes that are identified, predicting a failure mode of the first route that interferes with detection of the vehicle approaching the crossing intersection.

Systems and methods for predictive maintenance of crossings

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