Patent ID: 9663128
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B61L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: obtaining location data from wayside devices, the location data representative of locations of the wayside devices along a route being traveled by a vehicle; determining whether the location data in a series of the wayside devices exhibit an increase or a decrease in the location data across the wayside devices in the series; responsive to determining whether the location data in the series of the wayside devices does exhibit the increase or the decrease in the location data, determining one or more of a direction of travel of the vehicle along the route or a location of the vehicle along the route; determining that one or more of the wayside devices is misplaced along the route responsive to determining that the location data in the series of the wayside devices does not exhibit the increase or the decrease in the location data; and controlling movement of the vehicle based on the one or more of the direction of travel or the location of the vehicle using a controller of the vehicle.