Optimal forest transportation with respect to road investments

Secondary transportation of raw and comminuted forest products is a major component in forest harvesting operations in terms of economics, public perception, and safety. Consequently, there is a substantial amount of literature on this topic. The existing literature has dealt with many of the technical aspects of transportation with a majority of them focusing on improving supply chain issues; however, there are only few specific to secondary transportation issues in general. This annotated bibliography will help practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders gain a better understanding of the existing literature from 2000 to 2015. To this end, we began by classifying the selected literature into six themes: cost, roads and routes, trucking, efficiency and safety, other modes of transportation, and supply chain and optimization. Woody biomass for bioenergy production was the most researched forest product with respect to transportation. About one-third of the articles were presented in the context of supply chain modeling and optimization. More than half of the studies originated from Europe while the United States had the most publications for any given country. Most articles (16) were published in 2013. Biomass and Bioenergy published the highest number of articles (29) during the timeframe.

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“…Olsson and Lohmander [48] Sweden Optimized round wood transport and road investments on the gravel road.…”

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Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015)

Koirala

Kizha

Hoop

et al. 2018

Forests

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“…This means that using less conventional construction materials decreased the total costs. The modeling tool for prioritizing the reconstruction procedure for forest road networks has been made for the purpose of improving accessibility to spring thawingqualified harvest sites (Olsson and Lohmander 2005). However, minimizing the actual costs of construction operations does not help the situation.…”

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Increased fly ash utilization — value addition through forest road reconstruction

Kaakkurivaara

Korpunen

2017

Can. J. Civ. Eng.

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Increasing forest bioenergy utilization is increasing the need to discover more applications for fly ash to avoid dumping charges. Our study concentrates on defining the work phases of reconstruction work and estimation of construction costs for method where was used biomass based fly ash. Cost calculations were carried out for two mixed structures of fly ash and aggregate, two uniform structures of fly ash, and a conventional aggregate structure, where construction material volumes were calculated per kilometer for each structure. Our study defined suitable machines and their productivity per hour for different work phases. Cost calculation equations were formed for the used machines and the transportation of construction materials. Our study showed that building a 250-mm thick uniform layer of fly ash was the best alternative for minimizing construction costs. However, building a 500-mm thick uniform layer of fly ash was the best alternative for minimizing dumping charges.

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“…They are used mainly for forest harvesting operations, tourism, and forest conservation (Najafi et al 2008). Forest roads are often unpaved and carry traffic between harvesting areas and paved public roads (Olsson and Lohmander 2005). Forest road network design is the most expensive and time consuming part of a harvest operation plan (Tan 2000;Ghajar et al 2013).…”

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Metric measurements for optimization of forest road network alternatives in GIS-based programs

Parsakhoo

2016

Forest Science and Technology

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An efficient forest road network can increase accessibility to entire forest lands and decrease construction and maintenance costs. In this study, first cost layer for road construction in the semi-mountainous Hyrcanian forest was developed by overlaying thematic layers of slope steepness, soil depth, and proximity to hydrograph network in geographical information system (GIS). Analytical network process (ANP) was used to determine the importance of the layers. Nine road network alternatives were designed on cost layer using PEGGER and then the efficiency of each alternative was evaluated according to the metric of road passage percentage from cost classes. Technical assessment was done by analyzing metrics of overlaps, opened area, and corrected ton-km. The optimum forest road network alternative was selected by pairwise comparison of alternatives with respect to metrics. Based on our findings, we strongly recommend the use of alternative 8 whenever possible, because the construction cost, corrected ton-km, and overlaps were lower, and the opened area was higher than those of the other alternatives.

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Optimal forest transportation with respect to road investments

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Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015)

Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015)

Increased fly ash utilization — value addition through forest road reconstruction

Metric measurements for optimization of forest road network alternatives in GIS-based programs

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