Patent ID: 11945483
Assignee: nan
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 18:
19. A method for a train control system, wherein the train control system includes two main parts, wherein the first part includes a physical train control installation having physical elements that include at least one of a wayside signal with a plurality of aspects, a switch machine to operate a track switch, a train detection block and an on-board train control module to control the operation of associated train, wherein the second part includes a virtual train control system that is implemented in a cloud computing environment with computing resources that are programmed to provide virtualization of train control functions and to generate signals to control elements of the physical train control installation, and wherein a data communication link provides two-way communications between said two main parts, comprising the following steps:
determining operational status of physical train control elements in the first part, transmitting said operational status from the first part to the second part,
generating control signals for physical train control elements in the second part, and transmitting said control signals from the second part to the first part.