Expanding the Accessible Forest Areas by Improving Forest Road Standards and Utilizing Mobile Fire-fighting Teams

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dc.contributor.authorKasap, Caner Yavuz
dc.contributor.authorAkay, Abdullah Emin
dc.contributor.authorAricak, Burak
dc.contributor.authorBilici, Ebru
dc.contributor.authorUçar, Zennure
dc.contributor.authorErkan, Neşat
dc.contributor.authorGuney, Coskun Okan
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-08T15:11:02Z
dc.date.available2026-02-08T15:11:02Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentBursa Teknik Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractIn Turkiye, insufficient technical standards of the forest roads limit the speed of the fire truck, leading to increase in the arrival time of the initial response team to the fire areas. Improving forest road standards will increase the design speed and expand the accessible forest areas within the critical response time. In this study, the effect of improving forest road standards on expanding accessible forest areas was investigated. Considering the forest areas in Antalya Forestry Regional Directorate in Turkiye, accessible areas by the stationary initial response teams (103) and mobile teams (71) were determined from the existing road network, and then, the possible increase in the accessible forest areas was investigated when the road standards are improved. Within the scope of the study, the impact of mobile teams used in emergencies on forest areas reached during the critical response period was also evaluated. According to the results, in the scenario where current road standards and stationary teams were evaluated, it was determined that only 59.54% of the forest areas could be reached by initial response teams during the critical response time. When the road standards were improved, this rate increased to 71.69%. On the other hand, when the current road standards and stationary and mobile teams were evaluated together, it was determined that initial response teams could reach 70.40% of the forest areas during the critical response time, and if road standards were improved, this rate increased to 78.17%. Also, utilizing mobile teams increased the accessible forest areas within the critical response time by 9.03%. The results have shown that improvements in road standards and the presence of mobile teams have a very effective role in combating forest fires. © Copyright 2024 by Forest Engineering and Technologies Platform on-line at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ejfe.
dc.description.sponsorshipTürkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TUBITAK, (2210309)
dc.identifier.doi10.33904/ejfe.1502061
dc.identifier.endpage141
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85212212438
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage133
dc.identifier.trdizinid1335801
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.33904/ejfe.1502061
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1335801
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12885/5183
dc.identifier.volume10
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherForest Engineering and Technologies Platform
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Forest Engineering
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzScopus_KA_20260207
dc.subjectforest roads
dc.subjectGDF
dc.subjectGIS
dc.subjectnetwork analysis
dc.subjectstationary and mobile team
dc.subjectWildfires
dc.titleExpanding the Accessible Forest Areas by Improving Forest Road Standards and Utilizing Mobile Fire-fighting Teams
dc.typeArticle

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