Strategies for automating open pit mine haulage planning

Author

Terry Alan Bush

Abstract

"To aid the mine planning engineer, a suite of haulage planning tools were developed to facilitate solutions to haulage planning problems in the areas of economic modeling, haul road placement and fleet estimation by automating the process of generating haulage profiles and calculating cycle times."--Abstract, page iii.

Department(s)

Mining Engineering

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Mining Engineering

Comments

Accompanying CD-ROM, available at Missouri S&T Library, contains Appendix A (Java Source Code) and Appendix B (Project Database).
System requirements for CD-ROM, available at Missouri S&T Library, : Microsoft Office Access including PowerPoint and Word, Adobe Acrobat.

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Fall 2003

Pagination

xiii, 167 pages; CD-ROM

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-166).

Rights

© 2003 Terry Alan Bush, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Citation

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Mine haulageStrip mining

Thesis Number

T 8355

Print OCLC #

53448794

Recommended Citation

Bush, Terry Alan, "Strategies for automating open pit mine haulage planning" (2003). Doctoral Dissertations. 1467.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/1467