ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION OF T IMBER TRANSPORT

Based on the amount of sold timber of the forestry administration of R hineland-Palatinate in 1994 the timber transports between the forest d istricts and the customers have been analysed, in order to find possib ilities for optimizing the option of the means of transport and the wa ys of transport. The basic data bases on the customer's files respecti vely the files of sold timber and has been processed by using the Rout e Planning Programme ''Map and Guide''. Timber, sold by the forestry a dministration of Rhineland-Palatinate has been transported about 113 k m, the whole volume of transport amounted to more than 350 Mio m(3).km . Under exclusiv consideration of transport costs there is a small ran ge of scope for shifting transports from road to railroad. But in the case that costs of transport will rise just a small amount an overprop ortional increase of railway transports is possible.