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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2005
David Michael Davenport, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Rahul Bhotika, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Robert James Mitchell, Waterford, NY (US);
Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Kenneth Brakeley Welles, Scotia, NY (US);
David Michael Davenport, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Rahul Bhotika, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Robert James Mitchell, Waterford, NY (US);
Emad Andarawis Andarawis, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Kenneth Brakeley Welles, Scotia, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for monitoring trains in a railyard. These methods and systems detect an incoming train entering a geographic area defined by a railyard, store an entry time indicative of a time at which the incoming train entering the railyard was detected, detect the incoming train coming to a stop in a subyard of the railyard, store a stop time indicative of a time at which the incoming train came to a stop in the receiving subyard, calculate an incoming train latency time by subtracting the entry time from the stop time, and store the incoming train latency time as an incoming train latency time record.