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Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2023
Applicant:

Advanced Rail Systems, Llc, Reisel, TX (US);

Inventors:

John Michael Minor, Mart, TX (US);

Gustavo Vargas, Reisel, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Rail Systems, Riesel, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61L 27/16 (2022.01); B61L 27/04 (2006.01); B61L 27/70 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B61L 27/16 (2022.01); B61L 27/04 (2013.01); B61L 27/70 (2022.01);
Abstract

The invention provides railroad path optimization method. The method determines whether at least one switch machine from a plurality of switch machines is occupied in the at least one route and detects at least one unavailable route if the at least one switch machine is occupied. Further, the method identifies at least one desired route and at least one available route associated with an origin point and at least one desired route and at least one available route associated with a destination point to identify at least one available route for the destination point. Based on the identified available route, the method predicts the at least one optimal route and ranks the at least one predicted optimal route to enable selection of a final optimal route for travel.


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