论文信息 - Forest road network planning with state of the art tools in a private forest district from Lower Austria.

Forest road network planning with state of the art tools in a private forest district from Lower Austria.

Forest road network planning plays a crucial role in sustainable forest management. The goal of this paper is to develop a road network in a 400 ha forest from Lower Austria, in order to solve the problem of accessibility and to reduce the harvesting costs. State of the art tools RoadEng®, ESRI® Arc GIS and MS Office Excel® have been used. The designed forest road network consists of slope roads with total length of 17.11 km. The resulted road density in the project area is 42.77 m/ha and the road distance is 234 m. The construction costs are estimated to 36.80 €/m, and the harvesting costs have decreased from an average of 27.90 €/m 3 before the road network was planned to an average of 22.60 €/m 3 after planning the road network.

Karl Stampfer | V. Ciobanu | A. Enache | O. Brânzea | C. Duţă

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