MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617060319 A) filed by Bnsf Railway Company on May 12, 2026, for System And Method For Intermodal Dual-Stream-Based Resource Optimization.
Inventors include Mallampati, Dasaradh; Badyal, Vishal; Kuhn, Paul; and Kuo, April, Y..
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: Systems and techniques for optimizing hub resources and maximizing hub throughput based on dual-stream resource optimization (DSRO), In embodiments, a first flow of unite arriving to the hub from, customers to be loaded into departing trains is represented as a consolidation stream, and a second flow of unite arriving to the hub via arriving trains to be unloaded, and delivered customers is represented as a deconsolidation stream. A time-space network is generated for each of the consolidation and deconsolidation streams, and included in a DSRO model. Each stage of the streams is represented as a node of the corresponding time-space network in the DSRO model, which also models resource interdependence between the streams. An operating schedule based on the DSRO model optimizes the resources over a planning horizon to ensure they are allocated to both streams fairly so as to maximize the unit flow during operations.
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