Evaluating the effects of improving forest road standards on economic value of forest products

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dc.authorid0000-0001-6558-9029en_US
dc.authorscopusid8536301500en_US
dc.contributor.authorAkay, Abdullah Emin
dc.contributor.authorSerin H.
dc.contributor.authorSessions J.
dc.contributor.authorBilici E.
dc.contributor.authorPak M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-05T08:18:57Z
dc.date.available2022-04-05T08:18:57Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.departmentBTÜ, Orman Fakültesi, Orman Mühendisliği Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractForest roads are the key infrastructures that provide access to forest areas for sustainable management, protection, and utilization of forest resources. In order to benefit from the important functions of forest roads, they should be built in with adequate technical road standards. The road network with low technical standards require more frequent major repairs to ensure continues access to forest resources. In addition, only small trucks with low load capacity can move on the low standard roads. Furthermore, the low road standards limit the truck speed that increases vehicle travel time. These negative effects increase the transportation costs which are an important part of the timber production costs in Turkey. Thus, improving the road standards and developing forest transportation planning should be evaluated together in the most appropriate way. Large logging trucks with high load capacity are generally preferred for efficient transportation of wood-based forest products. In Turkey, large logging trucks, however, cannot operate on the most of the forest roads because insufficient technical road standards (road width, curve radius, surface materials, road structures) limit the maneuverability of large logging trucks. In this study, the objective is to determine the effects of improving forest road standards on total net profit of forest products by using the NETWORK 2000 program, a heuristic approach for solving forest transportation problems. Three Forest Enterprise Chiefs (FECs) located in Mustafakemalpaşa Forest Enterprise Directorate (FED) in Bursa Forest Regional Directorate were selected as the study area. The digital data layers for forest road network was generated by using ArcGIS 10.4 software. In the solution process, firstly, the optimum routes that minimize the transportation cost and maximize the total net profit of forest products on existing forest road networks were investigated for a truck type (15 ton) currently used in the region. In the second case, forest transportation was planned for the high load capacity truck (29 ton) moving on the forest roads with improved standards. In the first case, the transportation costs and annual major repair costs were considered in the calculation of the net profit of forest products, while one time cost of road improvement activities (i.e. road improvement construction, road structure installation, road surface construction) and annual maintenance costs were considered along with transportation costs in the second case. In both cases, the costs of other forest operations (i.e. felling, logging, etc.) were not considered since it was assumed that they do not vary with the forest transportation alternatives. As a result of the transportation plan developed for high load capacity truck, the annual transportation cost decreased by 46.85% comparing to the local logging trucks with low load capacity. Using improved road standards, the total road costs computed for the time period of 30 years (i.e. the average expected life cycle of forest roads) were reduced by 4.64%. The total net profit of forest products transported by using a high load capacity truck was 473 340 Euro more than that of using low load capacity truck on the existing forest road network. Thus, improving road standards might result in some additional costs in the road construction stage, but total net profit of forest products increase since transportation costs along with maintenance and repair costs considerably decrease in the long term.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5552/crojfe.2021.851en_US
dc.identifier.endpage258en_US
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage245en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12885/1881
dc.identifier.volume42en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.institutionauthorAkay, Abdullah Emin
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCroatian Journal of Forest Engineeringen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectForest productsen_US
dc.subjectForest roadsen_US
dc.subjectNETWORK 2000en_US
dc.subjectTimber haulingen_US
dc.titleEvaluating the effects of improving forest road standards on economic value of forest productsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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