Optimal forest road density: economic approach to the full-tree system

• Grant number: 20/11921-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2020
• End date: September 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Techniques and Operations in Forestry
• Principal Investigator: Danilo Simões
• Grantee: Felipe Soares Cavalcante
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Forest roads are complex structures that require significant mobilization of financial resources and therefore have an influence on the costs of wood production. Therefore, the objective is to economically analyze whether the density of low-volume roads in areas with Eucalyptus urograndis forests is rationalized, based on the binomial road-logging in whole tree system. The study will contemplate a clonal forest in first rotation planted in the state of São Paulo. The timber harvesting operations are based on the full-tree system, therefore, as a basic principle, the time study will be applied to measure the productivity of the grapple skidder used for the extraction of the tree bundles. That said, by estimating the cost of the grapple skidder per programmed hour, the production cost of this operation will be obtained. The optimal density of roads will be obtained according to the methodology proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, however, to estimate the intrinsic costs to roads, methodologies that will express all the monetary expenditures required for maintenance and reconstruction of the roads will be applied , in addition, which will allow estimating the cost per loss of productive area. Finally, the aim is to estimate the occurrence of the cost of excess roads.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SIMOES, DANILO; CAVALCANTE, FELIPE SOARES; ANDRADE LIMA, ROLDAO CARLOS; ROCHA, QUINNY SOARES; PEREIRA, GILBERTO; MIYAJIMA, RICARDO HIDEAKI. Optimal Forest Road Density as Decision-Making Factor in Wood Extraction. FORESTS, v. 13, n. 10, p. 13-pg., 2022-10-01. (20/11921-3)