Patent Application Number: 2006283821
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Mik Clarke (about 1 year ago)
Hmmm. Presumably the problem here is that they either don't know the diameter of the wheel to a sufficient degree of accuracy or that the wheel can be slipping against the track, so they can't derive the ground speed from the wheels rotation rate. They seem to need to reduce the power fed to an axle enough to stop it slipping in order to measure the locomotives ground speed.

Looks like they are measuring one locomotive (as opposed to all of them) and doing some work to determine when this reading would be invalid and to scale it for the other locomotives involved.