Sustainable Transportation Planning for Djebel Onk's Open-Pit Phosphate Mine in Algeria: Using Queuing Theory and Cost-Emission Analysis
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Abstract
Efficient mineral transportation is critical for sustainable open-cast mining operations.Queuing theory offers a practical approach to optimizing truck-shovel systems and address truck waiting times at loading and unloading sites.This research evaluates the excavator-truck system at an Algerian open-pit phosphate mine using an M/M/1 queuing model.The model reveals relationships between truck fleet size and queue length, waiting time, shovel utilization, and overall production.Moreover, loading and transportation costs are analysed to determine the optimal truck fleet size that minimizes costs and emissions.The match factor further evaluates fleet compatibility for sustainable planning.This systems analysis provides insights into achieving efficient, low-emission truck-shovel operations through optimized fleet sizes, reduced waiting times, and cost-emission optimization.The integrated queuing model and planning techniques presented can guide sustainable planning of open-pit mining transportation systems.Focusing on efficiency, costs, and emissions allows strategic optimization for both economic and environmental sustainability.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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