https://doi.org/10.4081/jae.2011.4.41

DETERMINATION OF THE FOREST ROAD NETWORK INFLUENCE ON THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR FIREWOOD PRODUCTION BY DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION

Vol. 42 No. 4 (2011)
Submitted: 22 June 2012
Accepted: 22 June 2012
Published: 22 June 2012
forest operation, supply chain, firewood, Discrete-event simulation.
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Raffaele Cavalli
stefano.grigolato@unipd.it
Forest Operations Management Unit, Dept. Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Italy.
Stefano Grigolato
Forest Operations Management Unit, Dept. Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Italy.
Marco Pellegrini
Forest Operations Management Unit, Dept. Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Italy.
In this study a Discrete-event simulation (D-es) has been developed to analyze the wood supply chain for firewood production in a mountain area in North-eastern Italy. The D-es is applied in the modeling of extraction (Full Tree System), processing of roundwood into wood assortments (cross-cut and sorting), offroad and on-road transport. In order to estimate the productivity functions and parameters, field studies were conducted to gather data about the different operations linked in the model. Also a GIS network analysis was developed to integrate the spatial information onthe covered distance to the D-es model for each of the supposed Scenarios. The results indicats that an increment of 5 m ha-1 of the forest road network could significantly increase the productivity of the wood supply chain up to 2%.

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Cavalli, R., Grigolato, S. and Pellegrini, M. (2012) “DETERMINATION OF THE FOREST ROAD NETWORK INFLUENCE ON THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR FIREWOOD PRODUCTION BY DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION”, Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 42(4), pp. 41–48. doi: 10.4081/jae.2011.4.41.

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