Abstract
In most cases, the planning of funding for the construction of a forest truck road causes difficulty to planners. Although a forest management plan (FMP) indicates the number of roads to be built annually for the next development period with the average cost of construction, this information is quite general and based on experiential estimates. The aim of this paper is to determine the average cost of forest truck road construction in the Republic of Srpska, as well as to calculate the average costs of individual phases of operation. The obtained average cost of forest road construction, resulting from the analysis of 71 major projects in 11 forest areas encompassing 178 km of forest roads, is 32,490.87 ?/km. The obtained results point to the interesting fact that forest road construction is the most expensive in hilly areas with an altitude ranging between 200 and 500 m (34,298.28 ?/km), while it is the cheapest (30,922.88 ?/km) in medium mountainous areas, with altitudes between 1000 and 2000 m.
Highlights
Data processing reveals that the average cost of forest truck road construction in the 11 categories III, IV, V, and VI, while the excavation analyzed forest managements (FMs) amounts to 32,490.87 €/ km of materials from categories I, II and VII was not
FMs classification into five types This categorization is significant because the cost depending on the type of relief is shown only for of forest road construction significantly depends the FMs in which the roads were constructed. on the soil category (D raži ć et al 2019)
Based on the analyses conducted, it can be concluded that the average cost of forest truck road construction in the Republic of Srpska amounts to 32,490.87 €/km
Summary
When creating an annual investment plan, planners often wonder how much money to provide for such an investment. By analyzing the completed situations of constructed forest truck roads in different FMs (Forest Management), it can be concluded that the value of construction of these roads ranges between 25,000.00 and 35,000.00 €/km, while forest management plans (FMP) provide fairly general data for that item. In some situations, the planned value of construction exceeds 35,000.00 €/km. Such a wide range of assessments of forest truck road construction costs created a need for theresearch of the situation in theRepublic of Srpska. The aim of this research was to determine the average cost of forest road construction in the Republic of Srpska, as well as to estimate the shares of certain phases of construction in the total costs
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