• Backhauling in forest transportation : models, methods and practical usage 

      Carlsson, Dick; Rönnqvist, Mikael (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006)
      Transportation planning in forestry is divided into strategic, tactical and operational depending on the length of the planning horizon. We consider a tactical problem of finding efficient backhauling routes. Given a set ...
    • A hybrid method based on linear programming and tabu search for routing of logging trucks 

      Flisberg, Patrik; Lidén, Bertil; Rönnqvist, Mikael (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007)
      In this paper, we consider an operational routing problem to decide the daily routes of logging trucks in forestry. The industrial problem is difficult and includes aspects such as pickup and delivery with split pickups, ...
    • Operational research models and the management of renewable natural resources : a review 

      Weintraub, Andrés; Romero, Carlos; Bjørndal, Trond; Lane, Daniel E. (Working Paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2001-05)
      This paper reviews the role that the operational research discipline has played in the understanding and management of renewable resources in the areas of agriculture, fisheries and forestry. The analysis is undertaken ...
    • RuttOpt : a decision support system for routing of logging trucks 

      Andersson, Gert; Flisberg, Patrik; Lidén, Bertil; Rönnqvist, Mikael (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007)
      We describe the decision support system RuttOpt, which is developed for scheduling logging trucks in the Swedish forest industry. The system is made up of a number of modules. One module is the Swedish road database NVDB ...