Patent ID: 8805605

Claim:
A system comprising: a control unit configured to be disposed on-board a first vehicle that is scheduled to travel along a main line route and to pull off of the main line route at a siding section route to allow a second vehicle to pass the first vehicle on the main line route during a movement event at a scheduled time, the control unit configured to receive an updated time of the movement event when the second vehicle is traveling behind a schedule of the second vehicle such that the second vehicle will arrive at a location of the movement event later than the scheduled time of the movement event; and wherein the control unit is configured to reduce a speed of the first vehicle such that the first vehicle travels behind a schedule of the first vehicle in response to the updated time to arrive at the movement event, the control unit configured to reduce the speed of the first vehicle such that the first vehicle arrives at the location of the movement event later than the scheduled time of the movement event but prior to arrival of the second vehicle at the location of the movement event, wherein the movement event is at least one of: a convergence event that includes the first vehicle traveling along a first separate route section and the second vehicle traveling along a different, second separate route section with the first separate route section and the second separate route section converging into a converged route section, or a divergence event that includes the first vehicle and the second vehicle traveling in a common direction along a common route section, the common route section diverging into a first separate route section and a second separate route section at a divergence point.