METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION BETWEEN AN ON-BOARD CONTROL UNIT AND A PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK

• Main Author: EL FASSI SAID
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.12.2013
• Subjects: ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC; GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; RAILWAYS; TRANSPORTING

A method of communicating at least one piece of information between a first control unit on-board a first vehicle and a public transport network. The information is sent by the first control unit in the form of a command that is transferred to a first communication unit on board the first vehicle. The first communication unit establishes a transmission link outside the vehicle with a second communication unit linked to a module for executing the command. The second communication unit and the execution module are located either on the ground or on board a second vehicle that has a second control unit. In the event of a transmission to the second communication unit on the ground, the execution module on the ground is controlled in a governed slave mode for the command by a master mode of the first control unit. In the event of a transmission to the second on-board communication unit, the execution module on board the second vehicle is controlled in a governed slave mode to permit the command to be executed in a master mode of the first control unit, thereby at least temporarily placing a second control unit on board the second vehicle in a slave mode to execute the command.