Forest truck road construction in the Republic of Srpska: The volume of works and average prices

Abstract

In most cases, the planning of funding for the construction of a forest truck road causes difficulty to planners. Although a forest management plan (FMP) indicates the number of roads to be built annually for the next development period with the average cost of construction, this information is quite general and based on experiential estimates. The aim of this paper is to determine the average cost of forest truck road construction in the Republic of Srpska, as well as to calculate the average costs of individual phases of operation. The obtained average cost of forest road construction, resulting from the analysis of 71 major projects in 11 forest areas encompassing 178 km of forest roads, is 32,490.87 €/km. The obtained results point to the interesting fact that forest road construction is the most expensive in hilly areas with an altitude ranging between 200 and 500 m (34,298.28 €/km), while it is the cheapest (30,922.88 €/km) in medium mountainous areas, with altitudes between 1000 and 2000 m.

Keywords

• forest road
• construction cost
• average price
• investment
• the republic of srpska