Pacific Southwest Research Station

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Title: Wood transportation systems-a spin-off of a computerized information and mapping technique

Author: Phillips, William W.; Corcoran, Thomas J.

Date: 1978

Source: In: Operational forest management planning methods: proceedings, meeting of steering systems project group, International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, Bucharest, Romania, June 18-24, 1978. Navon, Daniel, Compiler. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-32. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Exp. Stn., Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: p. 45-53

Station ID: GTR-PSW-032

Description: A computerized mapping system originally developed for planning the control of the spruce budworm in Maine has been extended into a tool for planning road net-work development and optimizing transportation costs. A budgetary process and a mathematical linear programming routine are used interactively with the mapping and information retrieval capabilities of the system to determine the allocation and association of wood sources and markets.

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Phillips, William W.; Corcoran, Thomas J.  1978.  Wood transportation systems-a spin-off of a computerized information and mapping technique  In: Operational forest management planning methods: proceedings, meeting of steering systems project group, International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, Bucharest, Romania, June 18-24, 1978. Navon, Daniel, Compiler. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-32. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Exp. Stn., Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: p. 45-53.