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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2024
Progress Rail Locomotive Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
Thomas Wade Goforth, Springfield, VA (US);
Rodrigo Almeida Goncalves, Campinas, BR;
Progress Rail Locomotive Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
Abstract
Combining a rail yard management system with an energy management system and health management system for optimizing a train consist build is provided. The rail yard management system determines railway cars and locomotives currently available at the rail yard. If there are not enough railway cars and/or locomotives available at the rail yard, the rail yard management system predicts or determines available railway cars and/or locomotives that are part of one or more inbound train consists. The rail yard management system queries the energy management system for energy management data associated with the locomotives to be assigned to the train consist. Planning of a desired train consist is a dynamic and iterative process where the planned train consist may be iteratively revised to include modifying the numbers and positions of locomotives to be included in the train consist for optimizing energy management and health management of the planned train consist.
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