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| ORM3020 | Transportation Techniques and Infrastructures | 2+1+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of practicals per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Erhan ÇALIŞKAN | | Co-Lecturer | ASSOC. PROF. DR. SELÇUK GÜMÜŞ, | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with applied knowledge on principles of forest logging operations and transport planning and aimed to gain ability of prepearing annual forest transportation plan according to making related assesment.
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| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | describe principles and methods of felling, primary transport, processing and loading timber for maximum utilization, efficiency and minimum environmental impact | 1,2,3,4,6,8,9,10,12 | 1,5,6 | | LO - 2 : | select a harvesting systems that meets site, stand, economic and forest management conditions | 1,2,3,4,8,9 | 1,5,6 | | LO - 3 : | develop a logging plan for a given area including a description of harvest system, operations, cost estimates and production plan / schedule. | 1,2,3,4,6,8,9,11 | 1,5,6 | | LO - 4 : | make annual transportation plan according to harvest equipments and road/landing network for a given sample field | 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,11 | 1,5,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Analysis of interactions between transport techniques and road systems. Advanced topics in road and landing spacing, determination of road standards, analysis of logging techniques and transpot vehicles. Cost and productivty of transport machines. Annual resource scheduling and logging/transportation planning. Technical, economic and environmental aspects of forest transportation methods.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Inrtoduction to forest transportation and relation with other diciplines, forest road networks and factors on constitution of road networks | | | Week 2 | Forest road locations and technical features at oppening up of forests, forest road network planning concepts | | | Week 3 | Oppening up of stands and forest by forest roads and relations whit transpotation, forest skylines and other transportation establishements | | | Week 4 | Forest transportation vehicles, tractors,forest tractors, mobile forest skylines, trucks and harvesters | | | Week 5 | Extraction from compartment, aims, importance and principles, factors on selecting of harvesting methods, methods of man power skidding | | | Week 6 | Animan power wood skidding method, farm tractor skidding method | | | Week 7 | Forest tractors skidding and yarding methods | | | Week 8 | Forest skylines yarding methods | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Extraction from compartment by other forest transport vehicles and establishements | | | Week 11 | Truck loading and unloading techniques in forestry | | | Week 12 | Main transportation techniques in forestry | | | Week 13 | Forest transportation plans and constitutaion of forest transportation plans on mountainous terrain, quize | | | Week 14 | Depots and depot techniques in forestry | | | Week 15 | Project prentation | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Erdaş, O., Acar, H.H., Eker, M., 2014, Orman Ürünleri Transport Teknikleri, KTÜ Orman Fakültesi, GYN:233, FYN:39, Trabzon. | | | |
| 1 | Erdaş, O., 2008; Transport Tekniği, KSÜ Yayınları, No:130, Kahramanmaraş | | | 2 | Bayoğlu, S. , 1996; Orman Nakliyatının Planlanması, İÜ Yayınları, No: 3941, İstanbul | | | 3 | Acar, H. H. , 1998; Transport Tekniği ve Tesisleri, KTÜ Yayınları, No: 62, Trabzon | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 07/04/2016 | 1 | 30 | | Project | 15 | 21/05/2016 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 27/05/2016 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 7 | 21 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Proje | 2 | 10 | 20 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 6 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 112 |
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