Compared to opencut mining, underground coal mining is more common in Australia due to its lesser impact on the environment. Although there are several underground mining methods, such as the longwall, pillar, bord, and miniwall, longwall mining is the most commonly used method due to its high efficiency. However, longwall mining does lead to significant ground subsidence. Mining subsidence is ...

Dominance measuring methods are a recent approach for dealing with complex decisionmaking problems with imprecise, incomplete or partial information within multi-attribute value/utility theory. These methods compute pairwise dominance values and exploit the information included in the dominance matrix in different ways to derive measures of dominance intensity to rank the alternatives under con...

Underground railway systems, can generate heat from their operations to raise the temperatures of carriages and the station substantially. This may lead to passenger discomfort and complain especially in warm weather conditions that prevail in Tehran if underground environment is not cooled. Transportation air conditioning Committee of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and air-conditio...

The use of fossil fuel sourced diesel underground has various associated health and environmental hazards, additional energy demand costs with necessary ventilation. One way to reduce these impacts is by utilizing a biodieselblend, which generates lower levels harmful emissions from equipment can be produced regionally, reducing the impact transportation. Furthermore, this would help allow exis...

As the utilization range of smart devices for infrastructure has widen its application owing to flourishing of smart devices, studies on the technologies to graft IT onto underground utilities are actively carried out. In particular, as underground utilities have a characteristic of invisibility, studies on a management system converged with augmented reality are demanded for the efficient mana...

This paper presents the feasibility study of CO2 sequestration from the sources to the sinks in the prospective of Italian Industries. CO2 produced at these sources captured, compressed to supercritical pressures, transported via pipelines and stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs, un-minable coal seams and deep saline aquifers. In this work, ...

In the context of public transportation system, improving the service quality and robustness through minimizing the average passengers waiting time is a real challenge. This study provides robust stochastic programming models for train timetabling problem in urban rail transit systems. The objective is the minimization of the weighted summation of the expected cost of passenger waiting time, it...