OPTIMIZING FREIGHT TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF PRIMARY WOOD THINNINGS
The paper proposes a generalized criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of the primary transportation of timber, while taking into account different direct manufacturing costs, labor costs, the cost of paving the skid trails and losses of their removal from the process of forest growing, and the damage left by the tree stand on the cutting area. On the basis of software is developed on the calculation on PC optimum technical and technological parameters of hauling various options, the possibility of different techno-economic and silvicultural operations and environmental improvement at the design stage and then selecting the most effective technology under specific conditions of production and the environment. The results are theoretical and experimental investigations extend and refine the sensitivity of models to predict performance logging to the main factors of influence and allow to obtain mathematical tools for process optimization in widely varying conditions of production and the environment.