Characteristics and time consumption of timber trucking in Finland

Silva Fennica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 471-487

  Nurminen, Tuomo ^a   Heinonen, Jaakko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cut to length operations; Log normal distribution; Logistics; Time study; Work phases

Indexed keywords

FINLAND; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CUT-TO-LENGTH OPERATIONS; HARVESTING SITES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORTATION; WORK PHASES;

TIMBER;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LOGISTICS; TIMBER; TIMBER INDUSTRY; TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKING; WOOD;

FINLAND; FORESTS; HARVESTING; LOGGING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 36448937435     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.284     Document Type: Article

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