Haul Road Condition Monitoring

Haul Road operations require smooth roads but find it difficult to transform road defects into an effective, reactive road maintenance program. Haul road networks need to be maintained to a functional performance level that optimizes safety, haulage production as well as vehicle operating and maintenance costs. To achieve these goals a road management strategy, which uses ongoing data collection to determine haul road defects and model the operating environment to create a proactive approach, could generate significant cost savings.

The Haul Road Integrity solution has been designed and developed to continually collect data and quantify conditions into an overall Haul Road Integrity Index (HRII) by combining road roughness, speed and grade data into an aggregated index. Our data analytics can be tailored to provide reports to the mine operator which will illustrate operational data to determine if trucks are achieving optimal speeds and cycle times on grades based upon haul road design parameters. Additionally, continual data collection provides historical information to analyze haul road conditions for the prediction of road maintenance intervals for stable and reliable roads to optimize mine production, reduce vehicle operating costs and maximize maintenance equipment utilization. The fundamental purpose of our services is to reduce cost per hour, increase tonnes per hour production thus decreasing overall cost per tonne.