Patent ID: 11904916
Assignee: SIEMENS MOBILITY SAS
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 1:
2. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises determining from the temporal evolution of the occupancy states of the first and third subsections whether the vehicle entering is shorter than the predefined length L by the further steps of:
determining whether there exists a time T_N>T0 at which both the first and the third subsections are characterized by the “free” occupancy state and the occupancy state of the third subsection remained “free” during a time interval [T0,T_N], and if the time T_N>T0 exists, classifying the vehicle as a short vehicle; and
automatically signaling to the control system that the vehicle detected is the short vehicle if it has been classified as such.