Optimal forest transportation with respect to road investments

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 369-379

  Olsson, Leif ^a   Lohmander, Peter ^b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Forest logistics; Mixed integer programming; Road investments; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

FOREST TRANSPORTATION; ROAD QUALITY; ROUNDWOOD TRANSPORT; SURFACE ROADS;

HEURISTIC METHODS; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROADS AND STREETS; THAWING;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVESTMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROADS; THAWING;

EID: 13444309640     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2003.07.004     Document Type: Article

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