US 11,873,017 B2
Transportation operations devices and methods
Milad Hosseinipour, Hillsborough Township, NJ (US); Michael Trosino, Wyndmoor, PA (US); Michael Craft, Savage, MD (US); David Stolnis, Coatesville, PA (US); Emily Greve, Wilmington, DE (US); and Thomas Robert Krotchko, Brookeville, MD (US)
Assigned to NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION, Washington, DC (US)
Filed by NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION, Washington, DC (US)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/898,089.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/883,154, filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0039695 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. B61L 27/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); B61L 25/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); B61L 27/20 (2022.01); B61L 27/70 (2022.01)
CPC B61L 27/04 (2013.01) [B61L 25/021 (2013.01); B61L 25/025 (2013.01); B61L 27/20 (2022.01); B61L 27/70 (2022.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); B61L 2201/00 (2013.01); B61L 2205/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for augmenting spatial awareness while navigating a transportation network comprising:
a user interface;
one or more geolocation sensors;
one or more processors coupled to one or more memories; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions stored therein, which when executed by at least one of the one or more processors cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an equipment identifier associated with travel along a path within the transportation network by equipment;
querying a section of interest database to obtain at least one section of interest associated with the equipment identifier;
storing the at least one section of interest in a data store;
accessing geolocation data from the one or more geolocation sensors;
querying the stored at least one section of interest using the geolocation data to identify a next section of interest;
calculating at least one of a time to the next section of interest or a distance to the next section of interest;
determining that a reduction in speed is required, the reduction in speed being an amount of speed by which the speed must be reduced in order for the equipment to achieve a target speed associated with the next section of interest; and
providing an alert to the user interface as a result of determining that the reduction in speed is required.