Patent ID: 11884251
Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a controller configured to determine whether a vehicle system formed from a first vehicle and one or more additional vehicles has remained stationary for at least a stationary time period, the controller configured to determine whether the first vehicle is a lead vehicle of the vehicle system that sends commands to the one or more additional vehicles so that the lead vehicle and the one or more additional vehicles coordinate efforts in moving the vehicle system, the controller configured to enable a parked function of the vehicle system in response to determining that the vehicle system has remained stationary for at least the stationary time period and that the first vehicle is the lead vehicle, the controller configured to direct the vehicle system to apply a braking effort in response to detecting movement of the vehicle system while the parked function is enabled, wherein the controller is configured to disable the parked function of the vehicle system responsive to the first vehicle being switched from being the lead vehicle to at least one of the one or more additional vehicles being the lead vehicle.