Determination of optimum production capacity and mine life considering net present value in open pit mining at different overall slope angles by Tahir Malli, Cagatay Pamukcu, Halil Köse

“…In open pit mine planning, many factors affect total fixed and operating costs, such as haulage costs, particularly when the mine goes deeper, geomechanical features of the ore body and surrounding rocks, diggability and slope stability related to overall slope angle. …”
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A Comparison of the Fuel Consumption and Truck Models in Different Production Scenarios by Alejandra Vera-Burau, Daniel Álvarez-Ramírez, Lluís Sanmiquel, Marc Bascompta

“…Using operational production, the performance of the loading and haulage equipment fleets was evaluated for each of the techno-economic scenarios. …”
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Application of Fuzzy Hybrid Analytic Network Process in Equipment Selection of Open-Pit Metal Mines by A. Rahimi Ghazikalayeh, M. Amirafshari, H.M. Mkrchyan, M. Taji

“…The aim of this study is introducing a multi-criteria decision making method for selecting the most appropriate combination of drilling, loading and haulage equipment using a state of the art comprehensive model. …”
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Research on influence of the maximum principal stress direction on stability of roadway surrounding rock by LI Guiming, ZHOU Chao, WANG Xiaodong

“…In order to research influence of the maximum principal stress direction on stability of roadway surrounding rock, taking rectangular haulage roadway of 1101 working face in a mine in Guizhou as engineering background, deformation of roadway surrounding rock was researched when the maximum principal stress was horizontal or vertical stress by use of FLAC3D numerical simulation software. …”
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Influence of change in frictional condition of track rail surfaces on interaction forces in the “wheel/rail” contact by Parakhnenko Inna, Akkerman Sergey, Romanov Andrey, Shalamova Oksana

“…The option of frictional condition of the wheel and rail interaction surfaces has been established to ensure reduction in the operating expenses for surfacing and rail replacement, energy costs for haulage of freight train.…”
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Multi-criteria decision making support tool for freight integrators: selecting the most sustainable alternative by G. Simongáti

“…However, it would be equally important if we could apply this aspect for certain activities such as haulage and forwarding that are a part of transport. …”
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Development of Technical Requirements for On-Board Cryogenic Fuel Systems of Belaz Dump Trucks by Dubov Georgiy, Trukhmanov Dmitriy, Nokhrin Sergey, Sergel Aleksey

“…It is noted that, LNG seems to be the most promising alternative to oil types of motor fuel in the segment of open-pit truck haulage. It is affirmed that in Russia, in Kuzbass, the group of companies successfully implemented for the first time an integrated project for the production of LNG and its consumption in relation to BelAZ dump trucks. …”
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Freight transportation in logistics industry of Singapore : a feasibility study on truck platooning by Lee, Alex Yung Seong

“…Even though PSA Corporation are undergoing trials to implement truck platooning for inter gateway haulage, the implementation are within a restricted premises and is unable to justify the use of truck platooning on main roads. …”
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Contract designs in the German piggyback transport industry : a transaction cost economics analysis by Doerr, Uwe

“…Put differently, the following question is answered: ‘do the contracts used by freight forwarders to acquire the transport service of rail operators result in the lowest transaction costs o f the existing contracts for the specific haulage requested?’ The thesis models these transaction attributes o f the rail transport services for piggyback according to TCE and subsequently assigns them to the contract design elements o f the four types o f contracts. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 on transport volume and freight capacity dynamics: An empirical analysis in German food retail logistics by Dominic Loske

“…Due to the lack of prior research on the effects of COVID-19 on transport volume in retail logistics, as well as resulting implications, this article aspires to shed light on the phenomenon of changing volume and capacity dynamics in road haulage. After analyzing the transport volume of n = 15,715 routes in the timeframe of 23.03.2020 to 30.04.2020, a transport volume growth rate expressing the difference of real and expected transport volume was calculated. …”
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Integrating Short Sea Shipping with Trans-European Transport Networks by Tiago A. Santos, Miguel Â. Fonseca, Pedro Martins, C. Guedes Soares

“…This approach is applied in a case study dedicated to the evaluation of the competitiveness of transport chains based on short sea shipping between Portugal and The Netherlands, integrated with other components of Trans-European Transport Networks (rail freight corridors and inland waterways), compared to road haulage-based transport chains. Conclusions are drawn regarding the geographical scope of the relative competitiveness of these transport chains and policy investment insights are presented.…”
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Structural Stability and Surrounding Rock Integrity Analysis for Goaf-Side Entry with Small Coal Pillars in Longwall Mining by Yiming Zhao, Zhi Xiang

“…These conclusions were verified by engineering practice at the 1252(1) haulage gateway in a Coal Mine in China.…”
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Multi‐criteria decision making support tool for freight integrators: Selecting the most sustainable alternative by Győző Simongáti

“…However, it would be equally important if we could apply this aspect for certain activities such as haulage and forwarding that are a part of transport. …”
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Design of a Windmill for the Water Pumping in a Sprinkle Irrigation System by Oscar Brown Manrique, Néstor Méndez Jurjo, Francisco Garcia Reina

“…Methodology: Different methodologies like the experience of the producers, established technical approaches for the selection of the relationship of speeds diameter of the rotor, coefficient of sustentation; haulage coefficient and attack angle were used. The analytic method was used for the calculation of the coefficient of solidity, the cord angles, the coefficient of power, the useful power, real flow, hydraulic power of the pump, total force in the piston, centrifugal force, sustentation force, drag force and the starting torque generated in a windmill.  …”
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Analysis of options of production and access ways in underground mines by Leandro de Vilhena Costa, José Margarida da Silva, Hernani Mota de Lima

“…Literature review shows that the depth at which shaft hoisting becomes a more economically attractive alternative to decline truck haulage is changing from being previously 350 m to present 1000 m, depending on the mining country and cultural underground mine development. …”
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Influence of human factor on the time of work stages of harvesters and crane-equipped forwarders by J. Dvořák, Z. Malkovský, J. Macků

“…Operators with the same working experience in forestry mechanization - about 13 years but with different education carried out the haulage work stage. In this case, the statistical significance between calculated differences was not proved. …”
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Modeling ore quality using ore caving technique by Vladimir Ivanovich Golik, Viktor Grigoryevich Lukyanov, Vitaly Ivanovich Komashchenko

“…Ore extraction from bowels by the outlets checkerboarding scheme at the increased height of ore bed provides economic benefits due to reduce of the amount of first workings, allows decreasing the number of active stopes due to the growth of ore volume in a breaking layer, increasing concentration of mountain works and loading and haulage equipment congestion.…”
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Environmental and Work Factors That Drive Fatigue of Individual Haul Truck Drivers by Elaheh Talebi, W. Pratt Rogers, Frank A. Drews

“…Many factors influence the fatigue state of human beings, and fatigue has a significant adverse effect on the health and safety of the haulage operators in the mine. Among various fatigue monitoring systems in mine operations, currently, the Percentage of Eye Closure (PERCLOS) is common. …”
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PERFECTION OF OPERATIONAL PLANNING OF CARGO TRANSPORTATION IN MOTOR TRANSPORT SYSTEMS: A NEW APPROACH by Mikhail Sergeevich Mochalin, Egor Aleksandrovich Kukharev

“…The article discusses the issue of improving the solution to the problem of routing in the designed road haulage delivery systems. The authors conclude that the errors in the operational planning of the transportation of goods are not obtained when solving the transportation problem, but as a result of the incorrect decoding of the obtained solution. …”
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Recent Research Agendas in Mining Equipment Management: A Review by Shi Qiang Liu, Zhaoyun Lin, Debiao Li, Xiangong Li, Erhan Kozan, Mahmoud Masoud

“…By analysing the characteristics of open-pit mine production and haulage equipment types, problem definitions, formulation models and solution approaches in the relevant literature, the reviewed papers are classified into three main categories, i.e., shovel–truck (ST); in-pit crushing–conveying (IPCC); and hybrid IPCC-ST systems. …”
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