Patent ID: 9002547
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: B60L,B61C,B61L,G06F,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining handling parameters of a vehicle system that includes plural vehicles operably coupled with each other to travel along a route during a trip, the handling parameters determined for different distributions of the vehicles among different groups of the vehicles at different potential change points along the route; determining whether to change the distributions of the vehicles among the different groups at one or more of the potential change points based on the handling parameters that are determined; based on determining that the distributions of the vehicles among the different groups are to change, determining a selected sequence of changes to the distributions of the vehicles among the different groups at one or more of the potential change points along the route; and generating change indices for one or more of the trip or an upcoming segment of the trip based on the selected sequence, the change indices designating one or more of times or the one or more potential change points along the route at which the distributions of the vehicles among the different groups changes, wherein the vehicles included in a common group of the different groups have common designated operational settings while the vehicles are in the common group.