Patent ID: 11953338
Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving trip data for an upcoming trip of a vehicle system at an off-board device, the trip data including information related to travel of the vehicle system within different sets of routes where the travel of the vehicle system within each of the different sets of the routes is restricted or controlled by a different back-office system;
communicating, using the off-board device, at least the trip data to the different back-office systems;
receiving one or both of mandatory directives and software configuration requirements at the off-board device from the different back-office systems responsive to communicating the trip data to the different back-office systems; and
communicating an initialization data set that includes at least some of the trip data and at least some of the one or both of the mandatory directives and the software configuration requirements from the off-board device to an onboard controller of the vehicle system, the initialization data set being configured to be used by the onboard controller to control movement of the vehicle system in the different sets of the routes.