Patent ID: 9580052
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B60T

Claim:
1. A method for operating vehicles, which comprises the steps of: providing a vehicle selected from the group consisting of rail vehicles and passenger carrying rail vehicles, the vehicle having rail vehicle brakes; determining a total weight of the vehicle depending on an acceleration of the vehicle, and a tractive force expended for the acceleration of the vehicle, the tractive force expended for the acceleration of the vehicle being determined in dependence on a motor current of a motor of the vehicle; determining at least one of a build-up brake force or a reducing brake force for decelerating the vehicle depending on the total weight; increasing or decreasing the brake force applied to the rail vehicle brakes linearly with time for decelerating the vehicle depending on the total weight, wherein a gradient is proportional to the total weight of the vehicle; and continuously monitoring the brake force to maintain the brake force within a specified interval.