USER INTERFACE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION FROM SEVERAL RAILROAD CAD SYSTEMS

摘要

A display system for displaying information from plural different and diverse railroad Computer- Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems includes a web server, a number of display clients served by the web server, and plural data interfaces communicating to the web server employing a common data format. Each of the data interfaces receives a different and diverse data format from a corresponding one of the different and diverse railroad CAD systems and converts the same to the common data format. The display clients may include a user interface display for railroad dispatch monitoring of a geographic region. The display includes a plurality of train track diagrams for the geographic region, in which the train track diagrams are substantially oriented in a first direction and a different second direction, which is substantially normal to the first direction.