Robert James Foy

TL;DR: In this paper, a method and communication system for a railroad train having at least one locomotive for automatically adjusting the communication system to provide effective communication of command data to control operation of the locomotive is provided.

TL;DR: In this article, a wireless communication device of a vehicle system includes one or more antennas configured to be disposed onboard a first vehicle of the vehicle system, a first modem configured onboard the first vehicle and to communicate a first wireless signal to one of the second vehicles or an off-board device using the antennas, and a second modem configured to communicate the second wireless signal via a different, second type of wireless communication link.

TL;DR: In this paper, an energy management system is used to determine a tractive effort capability of a vehicle system and a demanded tractive efforts of a trip, and an isolation module remotely turns the selected powered unit to an OFF mode such that the vehicle system is propelled along the route during the trip by the powered units other than the selected power unit.

TL;DR: In this article, a method of distributed control of train throttle and braking includes transmitting an instruction to a remote power unit to apply at least one acceleration to the train at a future time; receiving the instruction; transmitting a confirmation that the remote power units is armed to execute the instruction to the lead power unit; and computing a profile describing at least 1 acceleration to be applied to a train as it travels over a predetermined route.

TL;DR: A communication system for a rail vehicle consist includes antenna modules, routing modules, and an arbitration module as discussed by the authors, which forms a message represented by the network data and transmits the message to one or more powered units through the network connection.