New Research Developments on Forest Road Planning and Design
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Operations and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 392
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest access; forest roads; landscape management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, forest access is about more than just roads; it involves integrating technological solutions with society’s needs whilst respecting nature. Integrating new technologies, e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, advanced technical devices, or new software tools, can offer solutions that will advance forest road planning, design, and construction in the future. We invite you to share your ideas, knowledge, and professional experience. All of the questions you have asked in your research and your findings in answer to them are valuable. Starting with the basics of forest road network planning and routing, forest road density, spacing, and their technical influence on skidding and timber transport technologies are crucial. Appropriate forest road routing affects surface and subsurface water runoff conditions. The shape and parameters of changing cross-profiles can also affect these conditions. On the other hand, such parameters are influenced by the role of timber transport. Different soil conditions and better local soil management at the construction site are important. The use of local aggregate resources in connection with land disturbance and economic factors is beneficial. There is also the question of forest road deactivation. Once a forest road is constructed, is it permanent? The use of new emerging devices, software tools, and shared data is on the rise. The approach to forest access is changing. We encourage you to submit your research results and professional communications for publication in this Special Issue of Forests
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Forest road network planning;
- Forest road network optimization;
- Forest road routing;
- Devices, software tools, and shared data in forest road design;
- Forest road parameters;
- Forest road water management, and the influence on surface and subsurface water runoff;
- Local soil management and local aggregate resources in forest road construction;
- Forest road deactivation.
We encourage you to submit your research results and professional communications for publication in this Special Issue of Forests.
Dr. Petr Hrůza
Dr. Luca Marchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest access
- forest road network
- routing
- forest road design
- forest road parameters
- water runoff management
- technology integration
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