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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2023
Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Clifton Park, NY (US);
James D. Brooks, Schenectady, NY (US);
Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
An energy management system determines two or more fuel components that represent fuel consumption by a vehicle system completing a trip over one or more routes. A trip plan that designates operational settings of the vehicle system at one or more of different locations, different distances along the one or more routes, or different times is generated or modified. The trip plan is based on the fuel components. The fuel components include a delta elevation component of the one or more routes, a delta speed component of the trip, a mean drag component of the vehicle system, a curvature component of the one or more routes, a base fuel component of the vehicle system, a minimum braking component of the vehicle system, a braking auxiliaries component of the vehicle system, and/or a drag variation of the vehicle system.