Road Network

The Road Network window is used alongside the viewer. It contains functionality to configure special points on the road network called waypoints. For more information on each waypoint, view the table below.

Type	Description
Source	Represents an entry point onto the road network from the mining pit or a stockpile.
Destination	Represents an exit point from the road network to a destination such as a mill, stockpile or a waste dump.
Permission	Represents a point in a pathway which only accepts material transported by certain kinds of trucks.
Force	Represents a point in a pathway which included trucks must pass through.

The Road Network window has three tabs: Config,  Calendar and Route.

Config

The Config tab is used to define pathways between sources and destinations added to the Road Network.

Select the source from the Configurable Waypoints list and link the appropriate destinations to it by using drag and drop functionality.

In the example above, a filter has been applied, meaning that only material from stage 1 of the pit can be transferred using the defined pathway. Additionally, waypoints can be defined as either internal and/or exclusive. In order to know what an internal and external source is, it is important to understand the concept of in-pit and ex-pit paths. The images below refer to solids setups however they demonstrate a principle which is equally applicable to block setups.

In-pit and ex-pit paths

An in-pit path from a solid is one which goes through a source point. An ex-pit path from a solid is one which does not go through a source point or does not have a path on the road network to the destination point.

Internal

Flagging a source as internal changes how the software classifies what is in-pit and what is an ex-pit edge. Instead, an in-pit path from a source point is one which goes through either source or destination waypoints. An edge is in-pit if it either has a path along the road network to the source point or it does not have a path along the road network to another source point or a destination point.

Exclusive

If a source point with a filter is made exclusive, the material which satisfies the filter criteria can only go through that source point, even if the other source points have open filters.

Calendar

The Road Network Calendar allows you to flag the availability of source and destination waypoints per period. To make a waypoint available/ unavailable for a period, double-click a table cell.

Route

The Road Network > Route tab is used to calculate parameters associated with a particular pathway between a selected source waypoint and destination waypoint. There are three separate tabs with such data: Summary, Details and Charts.

There are three types of charts: Elevation, Fuel Burn and Time Usage.

The Elevation Chart visualises how the elevation changes over a haul route. Changing elevation requires a higher amount of energy, therefore based on this graph, the engineer can adjust where material is dumped.