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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
May. 29, 2020
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, Wilmerding, PA (US);
James Edward Trainor, Jr., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
James A Oswald, Coggon, IA (US);
Jeffrey John Wolff, Erie, PA (US);
Timothy Brown, Erie, PA (US);
Henry Young, Erie, PA (US);
Lindsay Short, Erie, PA (US);
Edward Thomas Petrak, Lawrence Park, PA (US);
Ronald Fischer, Fairview, PA (US);
Michael Wagner, Erie, PA (US);
Justin Chadwell, Draper, VA (US);
Carlos Vallejo, Erie, PA (US);
Sean Cillessen, Erie, PA (US);
Larry Bench, Casper, WY (US);
Kenneth Paul Nedley, Lawrence Park, PA (US);
Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Erie, PA (US);
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
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.