Overview of Global Long-Distance Road Transportation of Industrial Roundwood
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2024.2286" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2024.2286</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2024.2286" target="_blank" >10.5552/crojfe.2024.2286</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Overview of Global Long-Distance Road Transportation of Industrial Roundwood
Original language description
The aim of the study was to provide a comprehensive overview of global long-distance road transportation of industrial roundwood. The study focused on the maximum gross vehicle weight (GVW) limits allowed with different timber truck configurations, typical payloads in timber trucking, the road transportation share of the total industrial roundwood longdistance transportation volume, and the average long-distance transportation distances and costs of industrial roundwood. The study was carried out as a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was sent to timber transportation logistics experts and research scientists in the 30 countries with the largest industrial roundwood removals in Europe, as well as selected major forestry countries in the world (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Uruguay) in February 2022, and closed in May 2022. A total of 31 countries took part in the survey. The survey illustrated that timber trucking was the main long-distance transportation method of industrial roundwood in almost every country surveyed. Road transportation averaged 89% of the total industrial roundwood long-distance transportation volume. Timber truck configurations of 4 to 9 axles with GVW limits of around 30 tonnes to over 70 tonnes were most commonly used. The results indicated that higher GVW limits allowed significantly higher payloads in timber trucking, with the lowest payloads at less than 25 tonnes, and the highest payloads more than 45 tonnes. The average road transportation distance with industrial roundwood was 128 km, and the average long-distance transportation cost in timber trucking was euro11.1 per tonne of timber transported. In the entire survey material, there was a direct relationship between transportation distance and transportation costs and an inverse relationship between maximum GVW limits and transportapayloads (within legal limits) and minimise haul distances. Several measures to increase cost- and energy-efficiency, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in road transportation logistics, are discussed in the paper. On the basis of the survey, it is recommended that upindustrial roundwood be conducted in some countries in the future.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40100 - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering
ISSN
1845-5719
e-ISSN
1845-5719
Volume of the periodical
45
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1.0
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
217-236
UT code for WoS article
001145109000006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85180477007