Patent ID: 9671358
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: B61K,B61L,G01N

Claim:
1. A system comprising: at least one examining module configured to be disposed onboard a vehicle system, the at least one examining module configured to identify an identified section of a route being traversed by the vehicle system, the identified section corresponding to at least one of a potentially damaged section of the route or an actually damaged section of the route, the at least one examining module comprising: a mitigation module including a determination module that is configured to select a mitigation action from plural potential actions based at least upon a priority level corresponding to the identified section of the route, the priority level of the identified section of the route indicative of a greater priority responsive to the identified section of the route having one or more of: wherein the mitigation module also is configured to, responsive to an identification by the at least one examining module of the identified section of the route, automatically perform the mitigation action that is selected and that corresponds to the identified section of the route, wherein the mitigation action comprises communication of a mitigation communication to a trip planning module that is configured to adjust a trip plan for the vehicle system responsive to receipt of the mitigation communication from the mitigation module.