Content (Syllabus outline)

Forest roads as a means to achieve forest management goals. Categorization of public roads and their role for opening-up of forest land and forest transport. Characteristics of transport in forestry. Traffic load due to forest management and transport quantity with traffic capacity. Graph of traffic load and transportability of forest communication. Typical transport means and technical elements of forest roads and skidding trails. Elements of longitudinal profile of forest road. Theory of longitudinal slope of forest road. Course of longitudinal slope and equivalent ingredient. Typical cross profile of forest road. Types of typical cross profiles. Factors of forest road sub grade width. Characteristics of forest road centre line. Widening of carriageway and open profile. Hairpin bends as particularity on forest roads. Basics of projecting and tracing in forestry. Construction work of lower and upper road layer. Means of drainage of carriageway and road formation. Maintenance of forest communication. Types and causes of damages on forest road. Aspects and organization of forest road maintenance in Slovenia. Regular and periodical maintenance of forest roads. Maintenance of skidding trails. Ensuring of forest road transportability and forest road categorization. Standards of forest road maintenance. Forest roads on private forest property. Role of forest owners in opening-up and maintenance of existing infrastructure.

Prerequisites

1. Condition for inclusion in the work:

- Inscription to adequate academic year

2. Condition for performing study obligations:

- Attendance to laboratory tutorials

- Attendance to field work

- Oral defence of laboratory tutorials course work and of the field work report