1. In a railway scheduling system in which each resource used in each scheduled activity has an incremental cost associated with it, and in which train location reports are automatically provided to the scheduler as an aid in the updating the schedule, a method of selectively disabling train location reports comprising:
(a) assigning a local movement activity to a selected train at a selected location;
(b) automatically disabling the generation of train location reports by the selected train as a function of the distance of the train from the selected location.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the local movement activity is one of a pickup, setout, engine work, power change, crew change or mishap recovery.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically resuming the generation of train location reports for the selected train as a function of elapsed time.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically resuming the generation of train location reports for the selected train as a function of the distance of the selected train from the selected location.
5. A method of preventing the impact of automatically generated train location reports on the movement plan for the system comprising the selective disabling of the movement planner for information related to the location of specifically identified trains.
6. In a railroad system in which plural trains are moved along a network of railway tracks under control of a dispatcher assisted by a scheduling computer prepared movement plan that assigns resources to activities and considers the cost of each activity and assigned resources in scheduling the movement of trains over the tracks,
and in which information as to the location of trains is automatically provided to the movement planner for use in modifying the movement plan for the system,
the improvement comprising the step of disabling the use of train location information for trains that have been assigned activities that require local movement.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. A tape-sheathing device for an electric wire, in which a sheath tape is adhered to an electric wire by wrapping the electric wire in a width direction of the tape so that a longitudinal tape direction is aligned along an axial direction of the electric wire, said tape-sheathing device comprising:
a plurality of dies, each die having a tapered hole in the downstream side in a feeding direction, provided in series in the feeding direction, wherein the electric wire and the tape are jointly fed together by a feeding device through said plurality of dies;
said tapered hole of each die, other than the final die in the feeding direction, is provided with an opening formed by notching an outer peripheral portion thereof, and each die having said opening is arranged in a position with said opening shifted out of alignment relative to the respective opening of an upstream die;
whereby the tape is adhered while being wrapped around a portion of the electric wire whenever the electric wire and the tape pass through the respective dies.
2. The tape-sheathing device for an electric wire according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of dies comprises three dies including a first die, a second die, and a third die, said first die and said second die having said openings in the tapered holes formed by notching a portion of about 90 centering on said tapered hole in cross-section orthogonal to the axial direction at the outer peripheral portion of the downstream side in a feeding direction, and said first die and said second die are arranged so that the respective openings are shifted relative to each other by about 90.
3. A tape-sheathing device for an electric wire, said device comprising:
a plurality of dies, each die including a tapered hole that tapers from a large diameter at an upstream end to a smaller diameter at a downstream end, said plurality of dies being arranged in series along an axial line in a feeding direction;
each die, except the most downstream die in the feeding direction, having a notch in a peripheral portion thereof that communicates with said tapered hole, and wherein the notch of each die is arranged out of alignment, in a radial direction of the axial line, from the notch of each other die;
whereby tape passing through each die is caused to be successively wrapped about only a portion of the electric wire as the tape and the electric wire pass through the series of dies, and the tape is completely wrapped by said most downstream die.
4. The tape-sheathing device according to claim 3, wherein each said notch extends around about one quarter of the periphery of each said die.
5. The tape-sheathing device according to claim 3, wherein said plurality of dies comprise first, second, and third dies, said notches being provided in only said first and second dies.
6. The tape-sheathing device according to claim 5, wherein each said notch extends around about one quarter of the periphery of each said die.
7. The tape-sheathing device according to claim 6, wherein said notches are aligned to be shifted about 90 with respect to each other about the axial line.