Mathematical model of transport network planning on the territory of the forest fund

Abstract

The main purpose of the paper is to develop a mathematical model for planning the transport network in the territory of the forest fund based on the criteria of ecological and economic efficiency. Setting the goal is caused by the fact that, despite the urgency of the problem of ensuring effective ecological, social and economic development of forest fund and the existing scientific achievements in this field, both in Russia and abroad, the scientific base has accumulated a small amount of research that considers forest transport systems as one of the main factors that contributes to achieving the goal of sustainable development of forest territories in modern conditions of management. The complex analysis of the ecological and economic efficiency of transport network planning in the forest fund territory is only indirectly present in the scientific literature and is local in nature. The paper presents an approach according to which a qualitative criterion is formed for evaluating the effectiveness of the transport network functioning on the territory of the forest fund as achieving the maximum of all potential revenues from the use of various types of forest resources and the ecological potential of the territory on the basis of the planned network. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.