Sustainability analysis of earthmoving operations

Changburn Ahn; Prasant V. Rekapalli; Julio C. Martinez; Feniosky A. Peña-Mora

doi:10.1109/WSC.2009.5429656

Sustainability analysis of earthmoving operations

Changburn Ahn, Prasant V. Rekapalli, Julio C. Martinez, Feniosky A. Peña-Mora

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Abstract

Emissions from construction equipment are the main contributor of environmental impacts from construction processes, and mitigating these impacts is an important aspect of operations design and planning. To this end, emission estimation models play an important role in environmental management of construction operations. This paper presents an emission model that integrates with discrete-event simulation (DES) for more accurate emission estimates from construction operations compared to existing models. The paper also presents a case study which analyzes sustainability of an earthmoving operation, to demonstrate the application of DES for estimating emissions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2009
Pages	2605-2611
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2009.5429656
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	2009 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2009 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: Dec 13 2009 → Dec 16 2009

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Name	Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
ISSN (Print)	0891-7736

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Conference	2009 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin, TX
Period	12/13/09 → 12/16/09

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Modeling and Simulation
Computer Science Applications

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