Challenges in forest road maintenance in North America

EM Dodson - Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering: Journal for …, 2021 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Maintenance is a key component of managing a forest road network. Forest road
networks in North America are managed to provide economic access to forest resources …

Performance-based design method for gradation and plasticity of granular road surface materials

C Li, JC Ashlock, B Cetin… - Transportation …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Granular-surfaced roads frequently experience severe surface damage and degradation,
which adversely affects traffic safety and significantly increases maintenance costs. The …

Hybrid GA for multi-objective design of heavy goods vehicle suspension system

V Prasad, DN Pawaskar, P Seshu - Soft Computing, 2023 - Springer
The multi-objective design of suspension system for multi-axle heavy goods vehicle (HGV) is
presented in this paper. Minimum road damage and goods damage are taken as design …

Collecting decision support system data through remote sensing of unpaved roads

RJ Dobson, T Colling, C Brooks… - Transportation …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Unpaved roads make up roughly 33% of the road system within the United States and are
vitally important to rural communities for transport of people and goods. Effective asset …

[PDF][PDF] Nest and brood survival of Ring-necked Ducks in relation to anthropogenic development and wetland attributes.

CL Roy - Avian Conservation & Ecology, 2018 - researchgate.net
The boreal and hemiboreal forests are facing increasing anthropogenic development in
areas that have traditionally been remote and inaccessible. Although these forests are …

Evaluation of Otta Seal Surfacing for Low-Volume Roads in Iowa

H Ceylan, S Kim, Y Zhang, A Nahvi, SY Gushgari… - 2018 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
Low-volume roads represent a significant proportion of transportation infrastructure, and the
cost of maintaining low-volume roads is quite high for secondary road departments …

Using real options theory to enhance highway asset intervention scheduling

N Athigakunagorn - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Highway agencies have a fiduciary responsibility for cost-effective upkeep of highway assets
worth trillions of dollars. A critical aspect of this stewardship is the ability to make informed …

Economics of upgrading gravel roads to Otta seal surface

A Nahvi, Y Zhang, A Arabzadeh, SY Gushgari… - Applied …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Maintenance of low volume roads especially gravel roads is costly, and millions of funding
annually are spent for aggregate replacement alone. Otta seal, compared to other …

Gravel road paving guidelines.

S Dissanayake, HS Patel - 2016 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
The percentage of gravel roads in rural areas in Kansas is higher than most states. A wide
variation of traffic volumes across different regions and variations of local conditions and …

Analyzing investments needed to support oil and gas production and distribution

S Mitra, D Tolliver, A Dybing - Transportation research …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study was to forecast road investment needs in the oil-and gas-
producing counties of North Dakota over the next 20 years in light of its expected population …