Road network analysis for timber transportation from a harvesting site to mills (Case study: Gorgan county - Iran)

Parsakhoo, Aidin; Mostafa, Mohsen

doi:10.17221/67/2015-jfs

Cited by 9 publications

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“…The final results are displayed on GIS maps, as shown in Figure 13 [77,78]. A straight-line road segment may not be the fastest due to traffic and vehicle speed constraints [79], so Dowdle et al [80] created a model to effectively predict the changes in forest transportation patterns. This model can monitor and update road conditions in real time and monitor the various arrangements for forest product transportation.…”

Section: Application In the Transport Of Forest Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of Geoinformatics in Forest Planning and Management

Xing,

Sun,

Huang

et al. 2024

Forests

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Rational forest planning and management is the key to a forest’s systematic construction. It is beneficial to many aspects, such as the cultivation and preservation of a forest’s ecological resources, sustainability, forest fire prevention, and others. In recent years, some effective strategies and tactics for the planning and management of forests’ systematic construction have been established. Among them, the application of geoinformatics in forest planning and management (AGFPM) is one of the most effective and promising strategies. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive summary and analysis of the current situation. AGFPM has effectively applied in logging operations, forest road development, forest material transport, and forest fire prevention. An analysis of the research results in the past 20 years showed that decision support tools are the most used solutions to problems related to forest planning and management, especially the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is the second most popular method. With the development of geoinformatics, it will play an increasingly important role in forest planning and management in the future.

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Section: Application In the Transport Of Forest Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of Geoinformatics in Forest Planning and Management

Xing,

Sun,

Huang

et al. 2024

Forests

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“…The path which connects two nodes in a defined network with minimum length/travel time of links can be identified as the minimum distance path (Parsakhoo and Mostafa, 2016). Dijkstra's Algorithm was used to evaluate the minimum distance path between each node pair.…”

Section: Minimum Distance Pathmentioning

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Systems Approach to Develop High Mobility Road Network Plan for Sri Lanka

Weththasinghe

Bandara

2021

Engineer

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Transportation between major commercial and socio economic hubs will play a vital role in the economy. Since existing road networks have developed based on historical and natural reasons and expressways also have come up with individual proposals with very little consideration on overall connectivity, a need for a systematic approach for future network development has become a necessity. This study focuses on developing a high mobility road network taking into account the possibility of upgrading existing roads as well. Since Administrative Districts and their capitals have already established and developed, 25 District Capitals were selected as the primary centers to be connected and considered as main nodes in the high mobility road network. In addition, all expressway interchanges, other major A-Class road intersections and cities with major traffic attractions were considered as nodes when defining the initial road network. During the analysis stage, development of minimum distance paths and minimum spanning tree were considered to identify bottlenecks, critical nodes and critical links. To identify the optimum network, two criteria, minimizing overall link length, maximizing network speed and achieving desired average speed levels, were considered. A methodology was developed to identify the links to be added or improved such that overall mobility level of the country is improved.

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“…Laschi et al [12] have developed a decision support system to assist managers in the process of forest road network planning, exploiting multicriteria analyses, an analytic hierarchy process, and geographic information systems. Parsakhoo and Mostafa [13] have summarized the results of a road network analysis (RNA) and have evaluated the shortest path (to save travel time) in the city of Gorgan's public road network in Iran. Picchio et al [14] have tested accuracy in estimating areas accessible for winching along skid trails: they used three geographic information systems, namely the correct distance method (CDM), the real distance buffer method 12 (RDBM12), and the real distance buffer method 10 (RDBM10).…”

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Experimental Study Based on Game Theory on the Private, Voluntary Supply Mechanisms of Goods for Forestry Infrastructure from the Perspective of Quasi-Public Goods

Zhang

2020

Sustainability

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The existing research on forestry infrastructure has focused on suggestions from other areas of forestry research: that forestry infrastructure should be completed and improved. However, research on forestry infrastructure is relatively rare. In the real world, there are various problems with creating forestry infrastructure, such as complex approval procedures for facility construction, irrational facility layout, insufficient funding for facility construction, and conflicts between the nature of land used for facility construction and the nature of forest land. This paper uses game theory to analyze the behavior of forest infrastructure goods suppliers. Relevant parameters related to forest area infrastructure were designed, including communication, environmental certainty, information feedback, and reward and punishment mechanisms, and experimental economics methods were used to simulate accurate behavior regarding the supply of goods. Then, the key factors that affect the provision of quasi-public goods for forestry infrastructure were studied. At the end of the paper, some targeted suggestions that distinguish rural infrastructure from general infrastructure are given.

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Road network analysis for timber transportation from a harvesting site to mills (Case study: Gorgan county - Iran)

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Application of Geoinformatics in Forest Planning and Management

Application of Geoinformatics in Forest Planning and Management

Systems Approach to Develop High Mobility Road Network Plan for Sri Lanka

Experimental Study Based on Game Theory on the Private, Voluntary Supply Mechanisms of Goods for Forestry Infrastructure from the Perspective of Quasi-Public Goods

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