A new method of designing forest roads

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 273-279

  Akay, Abdullah E ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Forest road design; Minimizing road cost; Optimizing road alignment

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROADS AND STREETS;

DRIVER SAFETY; FOREST ROADS; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; PLANNING METHOD; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 4944267775     PISSN: 1300011X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/tar-0311-6     Document Type: Article

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