Patent ID: 9376128
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: B61C,B61L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining that a first propulsion-generating vehicle in a vehicle system is no longer communicable with from a location that is off-board the vehicle system to remotely control tractive effort or braking effort of the first propulsion-generating vehicle, wherein the vehicle system also includes a non-propulsion-generating vehicle; identifying a second propulsion-generating vehicle in the vehicle system to remotely control; and positioning the non-propulsion-generating vehicle at a designated location by remotely controlling at least on of tractive effort or braking effort provided by the second propulsion-generating vehicle using a remote control device that is off-board the vehicle system, wherein the at least on of tractive effort or braking effort provided by the second propulsion-generating vehicle is remotely controlled by the remote control device without remotely controlling the tractive effort or the braking effort provided by the first propulsion-generating vehicle in the vehicle system with the remote control device.