Impacts, management and functional planning criterion of forest road network system in Turkey

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-68

  Demir, Murat ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Forest road impacts; Forest roads; Forest transportation; Road density; Road spacing; Rural roads

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; LAND USE; RURAL ROADS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FOREST ROAD IMPACTS; FOREST ROAD NETWORK SYSTEM; FOREST TRANSPORTATION; ROAD DENSITY; ROAD SPACING;

ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

FORESTRY; ROAD TRANSPORT; RURAL LANDSCAPE; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

CONSTRUCTION; E I S; FORESTRY; LAND USE; ROADS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 33746880350     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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