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Transportation and Routing

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The Management of Industrial Forest Plantations

Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems ((MAFE,volume 33))

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Transportation accounts for a significant part of wood procurement cost, and this has generated a considerable amount of R&D efforts in many countries. In this chapter, we first introduce the vital role played by transportation in the forest value chain, and stress the information needed for decision making. Following this, we distinguish the different transportation planning decisions made at the strategic, tactical, operational and real time levels, and highlight their integration with other decisions in the forest value chain. For each level, we present a number of transportation problems and related solution methods. The strategic level often deals with designing the network and transportation mode selection, while the tactical level mainly concerns allocation rules. The operational level typically involves a vehicle routing problem, and wood reception is discussed at the real time level. Four examples of successful applications in industry are also described and the results are reported. Lastly, the chapter is concluded with open research topics.

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  1. Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

    Jean François Audy

  2. INESC Tec, Porto, Portugal

    Alexandra S. Marques

  3. FORAC, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

    Mikael Rönnqvist

  4. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Rafael Epstein & Andres Weintraub

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  1. School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    José G. Borges

  2. Dept de Economía y Gestión Forestal, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Luis Diaz-Balteiro

  3. Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Marc E. McDill

  4. Department of Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

    Luiz C.E. Rodriguez

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Audy, J.F., Marques, A.S., Rönnqvist, M., Epstein, R., Weintraub, A. (2014). Transportation and Routing. In: Borges, J., Diaz-Balteiro, L., McDill, M., Rodriguez, L. (eds) The Management of Industrial Forest Plantations. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8899-1_8

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