in the last few years, public awareness has been on the increase about short- and long-term effects of forest roads construction on the environment. therefore, forest road managers have to be concerned about the negative impacts and mitigate them as much as possible. this research conducted multi-criteria analysis techniques in a useful way to define the effective criteria and propose a model f...

Forest road construction is the most costly operation in forestry. Road designing and construction in unsuitable areas may increase construction and maintenance costs and also cause many environmental impacts. Therefore, it is required to pay more attention to forest road design. In this research, we tried to introduce an appropriate method for locating forest roads using GIS and AHP simultaneo...

in the past, forest road network designing was mainly done for its main goals-management and exploitation. this study was performed to pay attention for multilateral goals of forest roads, especially its role in forest villages’ development, in estakhr-posht of neka (6 villages) in series 2, section 6 of neka-zalem rood forest management plan. at first, constructed forest roads and suggested ro...

A well-developed road network allows all forest activities, including wood harvesting, firefighting and recreational activities. However, forest road construction and maintenance involve economic and environmental costs. For these reasons, forest road network planning is a fundamental phase of forest management, maximising the benefits and reducing costs and impacts. Thanks to modern technologi...

finding a minimum allowable radius length of a circle horizontal curve is essential to reduce earthwork cost or damage to the forest ecosystem, as well as make driving more comfortable. the present study is conducted i) to analyze different radius lengths of circle horizontal curves using an integrated approach consists of a civil3d in concert with the field surveys, and ii) to propose a set of...

forests are an important economic source for human and have key role in nutrient cycle, hydrology and ecosystem performance, any interference in this vital ecosystem causes to damage to forests. mechanical logging and road construction in forest areas have led to much soil compaction. soil physical and chemical properties were studied in parts of road and non-road in the darabkola forest of ira...

Nacrtak Forest roads are an essential yet costly part of forest management, and optimization methods are important tools for planning road systems to support harvesting. This paper presents a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) optimization model to design a forest access system consisting of logging roads for trucking and access spurs for skidding. The network designed is hierarchical in the sense...