James Daryl Helm

US Patent:

20230084425, Mar 16, 2023

Filed:

Aug 12, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/819475

Inventors:

- Forth Worth TX, US
Kyle Keilty Williams - Fort Worth TX, US
Gregory Harrison - Fort Worth TX, US
James Helm - Fort Worth TX, US

Assignee:

BNSF Railway Company - Forth Worth TX

International Classification:

B61L 27/16
B61L 25/06

Abstract:

A system for railroad directive management is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to a directive, track segments, and/or vehicle events on the track and/or track segments. Vehicle- and/or event-specific data can be compared with one or more thresholds, including force thresholds, temporal thresholds, environmental thresholds, and/or event thresholds to determine whether and what kind of directive modification should be instantiated. Specialized algorithms can be implemented to trace vehicle paths along the track to determine whether directive-related segments are traversed, and specialized clustering algorithms can be utilized to cluster data unique to a particular segment on a per-segment basis. The system can be integrated with existing track infrastructure and can further generate alerts to notify coupled systems and/or personnel of directives and/or modification thereof.