System and method integrating an energy management system and yard planner system

摘要

A method and system for identifying cargo-carrying vehicles (CCV) to be included in a vehicle system that are non-propulsion-generating vehicles scheduled to depart from a vehicle yard and travel to one or more destination locations at a predetermined departure time. Further includes, calculating a minimum tractive effort threshold required by one or more propulsion-generating vehicles (PGV) to propel the vehicle system to the one or more destination locations along a route within a predetermined time period. And selecting a set of one or more PGV from a larger group of PGV within the vehicle yard to be included in the vehicle system. The set of one or more PGV produce a tractive effort of at least the minimum tractive effort threshold, and having at least one of a lower fuel consumption or lower emissions than selecting one or more of the remaining PGV from the larger group of PGV, respectively.

主权项

1. A control system comprising:
a yard planner system having one or more processors configured to create a yard plan for a vehicle yard, wherein the yard plan includes a vehicle connection plan for coupling a selection of one or more propulsion generating vehicles (PGV) with a selection of one or more cargo-carrying vehicles (CCV) forming a first vehicle system, and wherein the yard plan is created based on a movement plan and an optimized vehicle system configuration of the first vehicle system; a schedule system having one or more processors configured to create the movement plan of the first vehicle system, wherein the movement plan includes a destination location and predetermined arrival time of the first vehicle system along a route; and an energy management system having one or more processors configured to determine the optimized vehicle system configuration, wherein the optimized vehicle system configuration includes the selection of the one or more PGV from a vehicle inventory having a larger group of PGV based on the movement plan of the first vehicle system and a tractive effort of the selection of the one or more PGV.