Truck dispatching and minimum emissions earthmoving

摘要: Purpose – The dispatching of trucks in earthmoving and like operations is worthy examination because potential emission reductions savings through the appropriate allocation to excavators dump sites. paper aims discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Truck performed linear programming (LP) effect truck on unit emissions costs established. Number trucks, cost are all considered as objective functions. A cut fill operation a road project provides numerical case study. Findings It demonstrated analytically that minimum solution same for cost. Numerical results from study, including sensitivity analyses underlying parameters, support conclusion. Practical implications LP solution, based minimizing numbers costs, accordingly impacts environment least terms emis...