Planning to Determine Low-Volume Road Standards, Long-Term Needs, and Environmental Risks and Trade-Offs

Inventories of forest roads are used to manage road networks by chronicling existing road conditions and flagging areas that require attention. Tools are needed to integrate the environmental performance of forest roads, as captured in a road inventory, into the management of these roads. This study used a combination of a multicriterion decision analysis tool (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and a timber transportation model (NETWORK 2000) to determine road standards to minimize both environmental and economic costs. This analysis technique is applied to a forest road network in western Oregon.

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  https://doi.org/10.3141/1989-02
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• Authors:
  • Dodson, Elizabeth M
  • Chung, Woodam
  • Mills, Keith
  • Nail, Rob
  • Sessions, John
  • Zartman, Greg
• Conference:
  • 9th International Conference on Low-Volume Roads
  • Location: Austin Texas, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-27
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 11-19
• Monograph Title: Low-Volume Roads 2007. Volume 1
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 1989
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Forest roads; Highway planning; Inventory; Low volume roads; Management; Standards
• Geographic Terms: Oregon
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Energy; Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01050882
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309104647
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 4 2007 10:25AM