Patent ID: 9434398
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: B61D,B61L

Claim Text:
1. A rail transport system with automatic composition of wagons of a convoy travelling in the rail network infrastructure, based on demand of users, comprising: a plurality of wagons, each wagon including an autonomous power supply, an electric engine for movement of the wagon, a device for coupling/uncoupling between wagons with automatic and sensorial control system, with an automatic system of coupling/uncoupling with other wagons and with a locomotive of the convoy; a central provider system constituted by servers that host all management programs that collect information regarding transport needs of the users via web and are configured to interface with the users of the rail network infrastructure; a first peripheral system, fixed in every station of the rail network infrastructure in which at least one of the wagons is parked, the first peripheral system being configured to receive the information about the users' transport needs from the central provider system in order to compose the wagons of the convoy and for exchanging information with the wagons in the station to coordinate their movements in the station; a mobile second peripheral system located on each of the wagons and configured to coordinate the movements of the wagon, following indications coming from the central provider system and taking into account information from the sensorial control system of the wagon; a mobile third peripheral system, situated on the locomotive of the convoy, configured to interact with the central provider system and with the first peripheral system to define a composition of the convoy and coupling/uncoupling of selected ones of the wagons along a route; the second peripheral system being configured to execute the movements of the wagon based on indications of the third peripheral system and communicating a status of the wagon to the first peripheral system for transport and loading/unloading needs; the central provider system and the first, second, and third peripheral systems being integrated on the rail network infrastructure in a way that the coupling/uncoupling of the wagons is determined based on requests of the users via the central provider system and controlled by the first peripheral system or by the third peripheral system so that an order of the wagons to be composed in the convoy is automatically kept during all the convoy movements.