CPC B65G 67/48 (2013.01) [B60T 8/1705 (2013.01); B60T 8/1893 (2013.01); B61D 9/02 (2013.01); B61H 13/30 (2013.01); B61J 3/00 (2013.01)] | 24 Claims |
1. A system comprising:
a train including rail cars configured to travel along a track having rails, wherein each of the rail cars comprises brakes, wherein the rail cars include loaded rails cars and unloaded rails cars, and wherein a ratio of loaded rail cars to unloaded rail cars changes; and
a braking control unit in communication with the brakes of the rail cars,
wherein the braking control unit is configured to adaptively control the brakes of a subset of the rail cars in accordance with braking data based on one or both of a change in a number of rail cars in the train, or a change in the ratio of loaded rail cars to unloaded rail cars.
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