Fleet sizing of automated guided vehicles: a linear programming

These moments account for loaded and empty-travel times, as well as times when vehicles are being loaded/unloaded or waiting to be dispatched. We model the steady-state behaviour of the closed queuing network by a linear program whose optimal value is the estimate of the required fleet-size.

Fleet Sizing and Service Region Partitioning for Same-Day …

We test the fleet sizing and partitioning approach in a computational study that considers two different service regions and demonstrate its pragmatism and effectiveness via an operational simulation. Using minimal computation, the approach specifies fleet sizes and builds vehicle delivery zones that meet operational …

Rightsizing your fleet | Tools & Templates

Fleet Forum provides you with the tools and guidance to use your fleet data for analyzing the state of a fleet, coming to conclusions about value, efficiency, whether to sell, replace, keep maintaining etc., and for assessing needs for new vehicles. ... The asset planning spreadsheet is based on the concept of right sizing. Using the ...

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Fleet rightsizing is the process of optimizing the size and composition of your fleet to meet your organization's operational requirements while minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency. In other words, it's about finding the perfect balance between having enough vehicles to meet demand without having excess capacity that goes unused.

Joint Fleet Sizing and Charging System Planning for …

This paper studies the joint fleet sizing and charging system planning problem for a company operating a fleet of autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) for passenger and goods transportation. Most of the relevant published papers focus on intracity scenarios and adopt heuristic approaches, e.g., agent based simulation, which do not guarantee optimality. In …

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The cost of a mining Fleet Management System (FMS) depends on the size and complexity of the operation. Large-scale mining operations require comprehensive systems that can track and manage hundreds or even thousands of vehicles. ... As you can see, mining fleet management systems play an important role in modern mining operations. …

Simple Railcar Fleet Sizing

The way I determine fleet size is by the following: 1) Look at the round trip transit time 2) Determine demand used during the round trip cycle 3) Add in safety stock (qty of railcars client would always want to have on hand at site) 4) Assume 5% of cars will need to be sent to shop for repairs.

Technical Specifications for 785 Mining Trucks …

785 Mining Truck Specifications 2 Engine Engine Model ® 3512E Gross Power – SAE J1995:2014 1193 kW 1,600 hp Net Power – SAE J1349:2011 1125 kW 1,509 hp Rated Speed 1,650 rpm Emissions Rating Fuel Optimized Bore 170 mm 6.7 in Stroke 215 mm 8.5 in Displacement 58.56 L 3,573 in3 • Net Power advertised is the power …

Is Right-Sizing Your Fleet All That Important? The Answer is …

By Ed Smith, President, Agile Fleet Having a right-sized fleet is essential to fulfilling the mission of your organization. Whether you are a community college with 15 vehicles or a large government, utility, or commercial enterprise with tens of thousands of vehicles, understanding and managing fleet utilization should be a top-of-mind thing that …

The Use of Simulation in Fleet Selection and Equipment …

The choice of fleet type and sizing to be used in mining operations is surely important, for taking this decision the engineers need to have enough information in order to get the …

Dynamic ride-sharing and fleet sizing for a system of …

Dynamic ride-sharing and fleet sizing for a system of shared autonomous vehicles in Austin, Texas Daniel J. Fagnant1 • Kara M. Kockelman2 Published online: 22 August 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016 Abstract Shared autonomous (fully-automated) vehicles (SAVs) represent an emerging

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Pareto truck fleet sizing for bike relocation with stochastic …

The differential operator is partitioned into 4 associated sub-processes in terms of decision hierarchy and characteristics: fleet sizing differentiation (FD, updating truck fleet size for depots), station differentiation (SD, generating new station visiting order), carriage quantity and recycling quantity differentiation (QD, updating the ...

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Fleet management in the Mining Industry

Fleets operating in the mining industry face unique quality, safety and compliance challenges daily – in addition to needing to operate efficiently.Specific ... Once regarded as best practice, fleet management is now considered standard practice for mines to be safer and more productive. The DSolve is at the forefront of integrating fleet ...

An approximated dynamic programming model for the supply vessel fleet

The offshore oil and gas exploration and production activities heavily rely on a fleet of supply vessels, which play a crucial role in regularly providing necessary provisions from an onshore supply depot to the offshore installations.For Petrobras, the decision-making process concerning the number of supply vessels to be hired for the upcoming …

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[PDF] Dynamic ride-sharing and fleet sizing for a system of …

This work investigates SAVs' potential for U.S. urban areas via multiple applications across the Austin, Texas, network and describes advances to existing agent- and network-based SAV simulations by enabling dynamic ride-sharing (DRS), optimizing fleet sizing, and anticipating profitability for operators in settings with no speed limitations on the …

Fleet sizing and charging infrastructure design for electric …

They modeled the minimum fleet size problem as a path cover problem on directed static graphs. Shehadeh et al. (2021) investigated the fleet sizing and allocation problem for on-demand last-mile transportation systems using a stochastic optimization approach. For EAMoD systems, chargers are needed to transfer low charge vehicles …

How Many Vehicles Do We Need? Fleet Sizing for Shared …

Fleet sizing is critical for shared autonomous vehicle(SAV) fleet management to reduce maintenance costs and traffic congestions. As the passenger demands are dynamic, how to make the demand-aware dynamic ridesharing and calculate the fleet size is an important and challenging problem. ... Discovery Data Mining, Jul. …

A bi-level framework for heterogeneous fleet sizing of ride …

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.01.017 Corpus ID: 267130721; A bi-level framework for heterogeneous fleet sizing of ride-hailing services considering an approximated mixed equilibrium between automated and non-automated traffic

Fleet sizing for electric car sharing system via closed queueing

This paper addresses the problem of determining the optimal fleet size of electric car sharing systems. We model the system as a Discrete Event System in a closed queueing network framework considering the specific requirements of the electric vehicle utilization. Hence, we describe the asymptotic behavior of the vehicles and develop an optimization …

A stochastic hybrid simulation-optimization approach towards haul fleet

Haul fleet size determination is a critical task in any surface mining operation where the material is handled using the truck-and-shovel system. Although the problem of finding the optimum haulage fleet size has been thoroughly studied, there are two important shortcomings: disregarding the effects of downstream processes on the …

Truck Fleet Size Selection in Open-Pit Mines Based on

An efficient fleet management system requires appropriate combinations of the fleet in the mining operations. Therefore, the equipment sizing (ES) problem needs to be done to get the perfect ...

Determining the Tractor Fleet Size in an Underground …

onsider the problem of determining the minimum number of AGVs required for material handling in a flow shop layout. Turnquist and Jordan (1986) examine the required fleet …

A Simulation Model for Estimation of Mine Haulage Fleet …

A Monte Carlo simulation model is developed to estimate the TPGOH as the measure for mining fleet productivity, which will be used in fleet size requirement …

A Simulation Model for Estimation of Mine Haulage Fleet …

In this paper, a simulation framework is presented to estimate the productivity of haulage fleet for open pit mining operations with truck-and-shovel system. The …

Improving fleet management in mines: The benefit of

This study addresses this problem within three different fleet types, including a heterogeneous truck fleet, a heterogeneous shovel fleet, and …

Stochastic programming models for a fleet sizing and …

We propose a new stochastic mixed-integer linear programming model for a home service fleet sizing and appointment scheduling problem (HFASP) with random service and travel times. Specifically, given a set of providers and a set of geographically distributed customers within a service region, our model solves the following problems …