Bulding a Knowledge Base for Developing New Technical Solitions for the Development of Forest Roads Network

Abstract

Currently, the transportation component in the cost of production in Russia is high and exceeds 40% in the logging industry. Among the most important trends in the development of forest transport in the country is a continuous increase in the share of timber hauling by forest hauling vehicles and an increase in the distance of timber transportation by truck-hauler trucks. At the same time, one of the main reasons hindering the development of timber industry complexes in the northern regions of Russia is the low degree of provision of forest infrastructure for transportation of business and energy wood. Therefore, considerable attention should be paid to improving the processes of forest road transport by solving the problems of developing a network of forest roads. A significant development of the network of forest roads is necessary to increase the economic accessibility of forests for clear and selective logging, thinning, and reforestation. It is also necessary to increase the economic efficiency of the operation of timber-carrying trucks during forest removal, to increase the level of development of the calculated cutting area, to increase the level of forest fire safety of forests, to prevent and extinguish forest fires. This led to the formation of a knowledge base for improving forest road transport processes by developing new technical solutions for the development of a network of forest roads. The formation of a knowledge base was made on the basis of an extended scientific, technical and patent search. Based on the knowledge base, recommendations for the development of a network of forest roads have been developed; new technologies have been proposed for involving local rocks in the processing of crushed stone for the construction of rocks, as well as the construction of temporary forest roads using logging waste.