A system and method for railyard planning

Details A system and method for railyard planning A system and method for railyard planning

B - Operations, Transporting

61

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B61K 7/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2599780

A system and method for generating a computer-aided rail yard plan for the movement of plural railcars through a rail yard, the rail yard having tracks that are used as receiving tracks, classification tracks and departure tracks and the plural railcars arriving on inbound trains and departing on outbound trains, the plural railcars required to undergo a sequence of tasks to move through the rail yard, the yard plan providing (a) a schedule for receiving trains, (b) a schedule for inspecting cars on receiving tracks, (c) a schedule for humping cars from receiving tracks into classification tracks, (d) a schedule for pulling trains onto departure tracks, (e) a schedule for testing trains, and (f) a schedule for departing trains.

L'invention concerne un système et un procédé de création assistée par ordinateur d'un plan de gestion d'un dépôt de rails destiné à accueillir plusieurs wagons. Le dépôt de rails présente des voies de réception, des voies de triage et des voies de sortie. Les wagons arrivent avec des trains entrants et partent avec des trains sortants en effectuant une série de manoeuvres pour se déplacer dans le dépôt. Le plan de gestion du dépôt comprend: a) un programme pour recevoir les trains; b) un programme pour inspecter les wagons stationnés sur les voies de réception; c) un programme pour passer des wagons à la butte des voies de réception aux voies de triage; d) un programme pour tirer les trains et les positionner sur des voies de sortie; e) un programme pour essayer les trains; et f) un programme pour placer les trains au départ.

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