The significant increase in data availability and high-computing power and innovations in
real-time monitoring systems enable the technological transformation of the mining industry …

This study focuses on optimizing resource allocation problems in complex dynamic
environments, specifically vehicle dispatching in closed bipartite queuing networks. We …

The mathematical methods developed so far for addressing truck dispatching problems in
fleet management systems (FMSs) of open-pit mines fail to capture the autonomy and …

Material transportation is an essential process in mining operations and accounts for a large
portion of total energy consumption. With the development of automation technology …

In marine container terminals, truck dispatching optimization is often considered as the
primary focus as it provides crucial synergy between the sea-side operations and yard-side …

This paper proposes a novel weighted-additive fuzzy multi-choice goal programming (WA-
FMCGP) model for the imprecise decision context wherein several conflicting goals are …

This paper presents a new truck dispatching policy approach that is adaptive given different
mining complex configurations in order to deliver supply material extracted by the shovels to …

Fleet management systems in open pit mines make two important semi-dynamic and
dynamic decisions to maximize utilization of available equipment: the decision of allocation …

The truck allocation problem is an important section of the transportation system in open-pit
mines. Most available models for the truck scheduling problem do not directly address the …

Predicting the fleet requirement based on fleet productivity estimation is one of the critical
parts of a robust long-term mine plan. The dispatch logic that determines the return …