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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2021
Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Carl L. Haas, Walkersville, MD (US);
Charles L. Wolf, Olney, MD (US);
Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and a method includes one or more processors to control operation of an air brake system having plural braking devices each disposed on a different vehicle of a vehicle system and configured to control braking efforts in the air brake system via the braking device disposed onboard the corresponding vehicle. The one or more processors may communicate one or more command messages to the braking devices to control one or more of a rate of a braking effort propagation along the vehicle system or a direction of the braking effort propagation between the plural braking devices.