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

Claim 0:
1. A method for automatically detecting whether a vehicle entering a track section of a railway network is shorter than a predefined length L, the track section having subsections including a first subsection, a second subsection consecutive to the first subsection, and a third subsection consecutive to the second subsection, wherein a length of the second subsection is equal to the predefined length L, the method comprises the following steps of:
detecting at a time T0 an entry of the vehicle on the first subsection;
determining, from the time T0, as a function of time, occupancy states of at least the first subsection and the third subsection, wherein an occupancy state is either “occupied” or “free”;
reporting to an evaluation unit the occupancy states as a function of time;
processing by the evaluation unit the occupancy states as a function of time determined for the at least first and third subsections, and determining, from a temporal evolution of the occupancy states of the first and third subsections, whether the vehicle is shorter than the predefined length L; and
if the vehicle is shorter than the predefined length L, then automatically notifying a control system in charge of a control of vehicle traffic on the railway network about the entry on the first track section of the vehicle which is shorter than the predefined length L.