Haulage Overview

DTS includes a facility to estimate the haulage requirements from a schedule. The analysis can be performed in two modes:

• calculate the haulage distance (ton kilometres) for each task as a property
• calculate the number of haulage resources that need to be assigned to each task to maintain the production rate

In order to run the analysis, you need the following:

• a road (or travel) network that connects the work places (tasks) to destinations (waste dumps / crushers / plants). All tasks that will require haulage need to be connected to the road network.
• the list of haulage destinations (waste dumps, crushers, plants). The destination must be set for each task requiring haulage. The system does allow for grouped destinations to be assigned, e.g. a generic crusher where the analysis will choose the appropriate crusher based on proximity and calendar.
• a haulage resource must be defined and assigned to necessary tasks. This is not needed if only haulage distances are calculated.