“…Some research has been conducted on various biomass-tobioenergy related problems, for example, several case studies on transportation chains (e.g., for cotton-stalk Ravula et al, 2008b;Tatsiopoulos and Tolis, 2003, for herbaceous biomass Cundiff et al, 1997;Cundiff and Grisso, 2008;Ravula et al, 2008a, and for forest biomass Forsberg, 2000), various cost analysis (e.g., harvesting cost analysis Thorsell et al, 2004, cost analysis of producing and harvesting switchgrass Sokhansanj et al, 2009), delivering cost analysis including harvesting, storing, and transportation costs (Mapemba et al, 2007;Nilsson, 2000;Allen et al, 1998), and techno-economic evaluation (Gnansounou and Dauriat, 2010), investigations on environmental impacts on activities in the logistics system (Allen et al, 1998;Forsberg, 2000;Seppälä et al, 2009), and life cycle assessment of lignocellulosic bioethanol production (Spatari et al, 2010;Singh et al, 2010). Fiedler et al (2007) and Allen et al (1998) discussed some issues (e.g., the requirements for biomass supply, supply processes, and transportation networks) on designing cost-efficient supply systems for the industrialized use of biomass resources.…”