Preliminary Planning of Road Systems Using Digital Terrain Models
Authors
Kevin Liu
Oregon State University, Corvallis, U.S.A.
John Sessions
Oregon State University, Corvallis, U.S.A.
Abstract
Unlike the traditional way of forest road planning in which the forest engineer manually tries to find alternative routes to access areas scheduled for harvest, a computerized method using data from a digital terrain model is presented. The method identifies feasible road segments, evaluates their variable and fixed cost components and then determines the optimal set of road segments to be used and the year in which the roads are to be constructed.
