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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2016
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Sven Adomeit, Braunschweig, DE;
Uwe Deichmann, Wolfenbuettel, DE;
Norbert Geduhn, Uetze, DE;
Carlos Del Pozo, Cremlingen, DE;
Siemens Mobility GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A safety method is provided for a railway network which is divided into track segments by track elements and can be traveled by vehicles. In the method the vehicles request, from selections of the track elements, steps for assignment as a travel path element. Each of the selected track elements automatically assigns itself as a travel path element for each vehicle that requests the steps for assignment as a travel path element, under predetermined conditions. For temporal optimization of the assignment of the track elements as travel path elements, the respective track element automatically assigns itself to the respective vehicle, in that in reaction to a first request of the respective vehicle in a demand type requested by the respective vehicle, the track element carries out its approval as a travel path element for the respective vehicle.