Transportation network scheduling system and method

US8655518B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Jared Klineman Cooper · Melbourne, US
• Joseph Forrest Noffsinger · Lee's Summit, US
• Ajith Kuttannair Kumar · Erie, US
• Mason Samuels · Colorado Springs, US
• Paul Kenneth Houpt · Schenectady, US
• Joel Kickbusch · Rockledge, US
• Mahir Telatar · Indialantic, US
• David Allen Eldredge · Melbourne, US
• Mitchell Scott Wills · Melbourne, US
• Ramu Sharat Chandra · Dublin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 6, 2011
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 6, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B61L15/0027
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A system includes a scheduling module and a resolution module. The scheduling module determines plural initial schedules for plural different vehicles to concurrently travel in a transportation network. The initial schedules include locations and times for the vehicles to travel. The resolution module modifies at least one of the initial schedules to one or more modified schedules based on an anomaly in at least one of the vehicles or the routes that prevents one or more of the vehicles from traveling in the transportation network according to the initial schedules. The scheduling module communicates the modified schedules to the vehicles so that energy management systems disposed on the vehicles modify travel of the vehicles according to the modified schedules.