A decision support tool for forwarding operations with sequence-dependent loading

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
• Main Authors: Hansson, Linnea J., Forsmark, Victoria, Flisberg, Patrik, Rönnqvist, Mikael, Mörk, Anders, Jönsson, Petrus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2022
• Subjects: The Landing; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0011; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0011; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0011

High productivity in forest harvesting requires efficient forwarding. Planning is complicated by multiple choices of routes and their order, the number and types of assortments, the loading sequence, and pile organization at the landing. This paper develops and tests a decision support tool for forw...