Patent ID: 8321079
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: B61L

Abstract:
1. An anti-collision control system for a vehicle equipped with on-board automatic vehicle operation, allowing bi-directional motion on a single track under control of a ground-based automated traffic control unit, the system comprising: a signaling control unit controlling ground-based signals on a track section with mono-directional running; a first default control mode in which said signaling control unit imposes a mono-directional motion to the vehicle moving on the mono-directional running track section; a second control mode, to be selectively activated, in which a movement of the vehicle in opposite directions on at least a part of the track section of an initially mono-directional running nature is initiated by a request of control priority coming from the automated traffic control unit and sent to the signaling control unit, wherein the signaling control unit returns an authorization signal to the request.