Patent ID: 11897525
Assignee: BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 20:
21. A collision avoidance system configured to generate and deliver collision alerts with one or more severity levels to railroad constituents, comprising:
a memory having a first database with data, thresholds, and specifications related to work, devices, vehicles, and train tracks; and
a computer processor operably coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is capable of executing machine-readable instructions to instantiate one or more program modules, the program modules including:
an alert generation module configured to generate an alert with an assigned severity level when a first geofence intersects with a second geofence, wherein sizes of the first and second geofences are based on a type of the railroad constituents; and
an alert delivery module.