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Number
12
Notes
Field
Transportation Planning Workload Analysis
Comments About Computerized Programs
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News
DECEMBER 1976
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A TRANSPORTATION
PLANNING WORKLOAD ANALYSIS
Allen C. Groven
Juan Gomez
William R. Martin
Region
A workload
job on the
are
the
2
analysis was recently completed for the transportation planning
San Juan National Forest in Region 2.
The planning activities
rests
probably applicable to most
although the
distribution of time and responsibilities vary.
The June 1976 Amendment 27 to FSM
integral function of
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
amount
of time and
made transportation planning
7710
Land-Use Planning Area Forest
Transportation Design
Program Budget
Project Criteria Development
Unit
an
Project Development
System Operation
The San Juan analysis
which have particular
recognized all of those functions plus two others
in Region 2
off-road travel and trail
emphasis
activ-ities
planning
coordination.
man-days.
organi-zation
major functional areas were broken down into specific
recurring
and the man-days associated with each activity were estimated.
For
example multisale network analysis to support the timber sale program was
estimated at 20 man-days/analysis X 6 analyses 1 per district
120
Each activity was examined as to whether it must be done or merely
should be done.
Next a determination was made as to where in the
The
Zone
vs.
Supervisors
Office
it
could be
done.
Based upon 240 man-days/man-year
the analysis indicated that the must do
activities exceeded 1 man-year 261 man-days.
Of these 174 man-days
could be done on the two zones.
However while zone personnel might have
the analytic
skills to carry out the activities
or could
be trained to
1
acquire them it was considered unlikely that they would have time to do
them unless
priorities were reordered and some other jobs given up or
additional manpower 1/3 man-year each was acquired.
Also certain
activities had to be done at the Sup
visors Office level and others could
be done better with the benefit of aFrest-wide
The
perspective.
from the analysis was that a journeyman transportation planning
position should be maintained at the Supervisors
Office level.
2
con-clusion
1
transporta-tion
Other Forests may find this approach useful
planning requirements.
in
analyzing forest
Table 1 is
The following list shows the activities defined for each job.
1
for
and
a summary of man-days required
transportation planning
figure
1.
of
the
information
contained
in
table
gives a schematic
presentation
I.
FOREST
A.
PLANNING
photo records coordinate
Office
necessary at the Supervisors
st maps inventories
foricts.
These are
Upd
witat
and
level.
B.
C.
D.
The
roads per FSM direction.
Functionally classify
allýest
thereafter.
should
be
sewed
and
annually
classification
updated
State highway coordination
participate in the State
annual
Forest Service
meeting and make at least one
District
Office.
to a State Highway
Superintend-ents
County
meet
coordination
to
coordinate
etc.
with Commissioners Road
and forest
development
county
Super-visors
Traffic
F.
Annually
G.
Derive Forest Coordinating Requirements
UNIT
A.
systems.
a traffic engineering technician is needed
surveillance
the
to
summer
install maintain and read traffic
during
counters.
Data analysis and supervision are needed at the
Office level.
E.
other
II.
Highway and
visit a year
review the
staff
Forest Road
Obliteration Plan.
from
Area Guides
with
officers.
PLANNING
Manage-ment
Resource identification resource functional plans and resource
e.g. timber type
data maps o reveal transportation system needs
and
Recreation
Information
management plans
maps ran
RI
B.
transporta-tion
Corridor
alysis conduct field review of potential
corridors and determine roadability based on slope mass
movement potential erosion hazard and other topographic
constraints.
C.
Corridor economic
determine the
analysis
corridors.
2
cost
and benefits
for
II.
UNIT
D.
E.
PLANNING
continued
alter-native
Environmental Impact Statement
EIS Reviews make an intensive
analysis of the transportation system for the selected
of each EIS reviewed.
manage-ment
translate unit planning decisions into
Management requirements
For example
What
management requirements.
design criteria must
be formulated to comply with partial retention of visual
objectives
III.
eco-nomic
re-quired
multire-source
DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING
A.
Multisale network
District should develop an
analysis
every
analysis for multisales to determine road standards
to haul timber and road standards required for
management. When an alternative other than the most
is selected
the reason must be documented.
B.
Field review of sale roads
timber road to test against
eco-nomical
a periodic field review of each
transportation decisions and
make
assumptions.
C.
IV.
check
each
EAR for
PROGRAM INPUTS
A.
V.
EAR
transpor-tation
Environmental Analysis Report
development adequacy.
Five-year action plan analysis performed in the multisale area
planning can aid the decisionmaking process.
contribu-tion
supple-mentation
B.
show the need for timber purchaser
Program budgeting
public works funds Forest Roads and Trails
and contribution in the program budget.
C.
the need for right-of-way acquisition should be
Right-of-way
recognized during the planning stage.
D.
Budget for transportation planning
FRT
activities.
ROAD OPERATIONS
A.
B.
Maintenance management
establish uniform forest
making road logs and setting maintenance levels.
accomplishments against planned maintenance.
guidance for
Review actual
classifica-tion
Signing provide
of
signing
advice
roads.
3
based on functional
VI.
TRAIL MANAGEMENT
A.
Establish maintenance
accomplishments
levels based on need.
against established levels.
Review actual
Obtain condition
surveys.
B.
VII.
Prepare development
proposals and
enter
into
program budget.
OFF-ROAD TRAVEL
A.
Coordinate travel management
District personnel.
B.
Forest travel
map
and transportation planning with
review and update.
Table
Work
1.
Load
on
summary for transportation planning
San Juan National Forest
Must
Function
1
t9n
the
Should
Do
Do
Job
Job
n-D
Responsibility
FOREST PLANNING
A.
Maps
inventories
classification
X
S.O.
8
x
S.O.
4
x
S.O.
2
B.
Functional
C.
State
D.
County
E.
Traffic surveillance
X
S.O.
F.
Road
x
S.O.
2
G.
Coordinating
S.O.
10
highway
coordination
x
coordination
S.O.
4
90-technician
5-analyst
II.
III.
IV.
Resource
B.
Corridor
analysis
C.
Corridor
economic
D.
EIS Review
E.
Management
VII.
identification
A.
Network
B.
Road
C.
EAR
x
Zone/S.O.
10
x
Zone/S.O.
12
x
Zone/S.O.
12
X
S.O.
6
x
Zone/S.O.
4
Zone/S.O.
120
PLANNING
x
analysis
x
review
x
review
PROGRAM
C.
analysis
requirements
DEVELOPMENT
B.
x
requirements
A.
D.
VI.
obliteration
PLANNING
UNIT
A.
V.
s
S.O.
12
S.O.
10
INPUTS
x
Zone/S.O.
6
Program budgeting
x
S.O.
6
Right-of-way
X
S.O.
2
Transportation
x
Zone/S.O.
2
Five-Year
action
plan
planning
budgeting
ROAD OPERATIONS
A.
Maintenance
B.
Signing advice
TRAIL
x
management
S.O.
x
S.O.
21
2
MANAGEMENT
A.
Maintenance
B.
Development
ENVIRONMENTAL
STATEMENTS
proposals
Zone/S.O.
Zone/S.O.
12
2
IMPACT
A.
District coordination
B.
Forest
travel
X
x
map
5
x
S.O.
8
x
S.O.
2
UNIT
II.
1.
FOREST
A.
PLANNING
Maps
inventories
Functional
B.
State
D.
County
E.
coordination
2
95
obliterationt
Coordinating
Resource
B.
Corridor Analysis$
C.
Corridor economic
D.
Environmental
E.
10
identifications
12
12
analysis$
statements
impact
6
requirements$
Management
4
Total man-days
44
III.
4
surveillancet
Road
G.
4
coordination
Traffic
F.
8
classification
highway
C.
MAN-DAYS
MAN-DAYS
PLANNING
A.
5 analyst
DEVELOPMENT
A.
Network
B.
Road
C.
EAR
90 technician
PLANNING
12
10
Total man-days
10
Total man-days
120
reviewt
review
2
requirements
MAN-DAYS
analysis$
142
12%
123
38%
33%
TRANSPORTATION
VII.
Q1\
OFF-ROAD
A.
District
B.
Forest
AND
TRAVEL
TRAVEL
coordination
travel
IV.
MAN-DAYS
8
map
4%
B.
2
Total man-days
PROGRAM
A.
MANAGEMENT
3%
C.
372
10
total
D.
man-days
INPUTS
Five-year action
Program
2
Transportation
planning
A.
B.
MANAGEMENT
Developmental
6%
V.
12
Total man-days
B.
OPERATIONS
Maintenance
Signing
advicet
tJobs
at the
$Jobs
if
which
must
Supervisors
which
should
Supervisors
which
must
be done
Office
be done
Office
be
done
by the
transportation
planner
level.
by the
transportation
planner
level.
but
could
be done
in
the
zones
time permits
Schematic work Zoad summary for transportation planning
on the San Juan National Forest.
21
2
Total man-days
at the
1.
MAN-DAYS
management
14
Jobs
Figure
ROAD
A.
2
proposals$
2
16
other$
MAN-DAYS
Maintenance
budgeting
Total man-days
4%
TRAIL
6
techniciant
174
VI.
6
Right-of-ways
108 analystt
90
MAN-DAYS
plan$
budgeting
23
COMMENTS ABOUT
COMPUTERIZED
PROGRAMS AT FORT
COLLINS
Gary F. Bump
Region 5
Sierra National Forest
com-puterized
pro-gram
access-ing
The January 1976 issue of FieZd Notes contained an article about the
cost
estimating guide developed by the Sierra National Forest.
The example presented in the article was one of the first printouts.
July 1975 printout many additions have been made and the
has been put on storage at Fort Collins. The instructions for
and running the program are also available at Fort Collins. To get
all that
is required is to print a copy of a file called
instructions
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Since
the
the
1
dis-covered
May 1975 issue of Field Notes described the computer Processing of
Contract Pay Estimates from the Six Rivers National Forest. After using
on the Sierra an error was
this program on a very large contract
This
amounts
in computations involving
greater than $999999.99.
the
see
few
added
to
fig.
options
program.
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to
width
widened
full
printer
2. For easier reading the printout was
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fig.
and
allow an item to be excluded from having withholding deducted
underrun
when
of
and
using
overrun
option to control the flagging
will
soon
to
Government
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WASHINGTON
OFFICE NEWS
TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS
Heyward T. Taylor
Assistant Director
the August issue of Fi.eZd Notes the San Dimas equipment development
program was highlighted to keep you informed on the progress of ongoing
projects at the Equipment Development Centers.
This issue highlights the
Missoula Equipment Development Centers program.
In
sys-tem.
ENGINEERING
The Missoula Equipment Development Center is working with the Intermountain
Forest and Range Experiment Station to develop a new cable transport
Michael Gonsior a logging engineer
with the Intermountain Station
conceived the idea and the Center engineers
built a 120 scale model which
has been demonstrated to many persons in the logging industry
Forest
Service and other Federal State and private agencies.
The system is intended to extend cable yarding capabilities
costs.
It differs significantly from present systems
1.
2.
It
features
capstans
and
consists
of
only one
while reducing
continuous
cable.
im-proves
in-creased
requires no interlocking of drums because the storage drum is
from powered drums.
The power drums always operate in a
fixed 11 ratio so lines travel at the same velocity.
This
efficiency and offers better yarding performance through
spans unlimited drop line length and lateral excursions.
It
separate
3.
load-carrying
For a given configuration of load span and deflection
its
capability is greater than the present systems for a given
line strength or size hence a smaller diameter cable can be used.
top-ographic
In
addition
its
features
carriage
can be
needed single span
suitable locations.
can
an intermediate support so adverse
by extending the span far enough to gain
or intermediate supports
can be placed in
pass
overcome
deflection
The goal is to fabricate a prototype to evaluate economic
and prepare drawings
and specifications that
consequences
available on request.
13
and environmental
will be made
Center is continuing to monitor the rapid changes
occurring in traffic
surveillance hardware.
are
to
market
Suppliers
beginning
a new generation
of inductive loop vehicle detectors that have improved sensitivity and
reduced energy demands.
One new detector uses coaxial cable it offers
The
the
reducing energy demands even further and reducing the
The detector
installing loops.
has never been tested
on gravel roads so evaluations are planned in cooperation with Regional
and Forest traffic surveillance personnel.
cost
advantages
and
of
effort
of
proj-ects
Descrip-tions
RESOURCES
The
Forest Resource Program at Missoula is composed of 29 individual
and rangeland management.
that cover most phases
of forest
of a few projects will illustrate the variety of the program
25-foot
engineers developed a method of projecting cloth markers from the
The markers accurately delineate cutting unit
ground into treetops.
section
corner
boundaries
locations
etc. from the air. The 1- by
markers are contained in powder-propelled projectiles that are fired
from a Stun-Gun.
The markers can be placed in the tops of trees up to 200
Center
feet
high.
rehabil-itated
opera-tion.
Center personnel
such as straw or
incorporates organic matter
like those found on
compacted
The machine will loosen
lands
to
strip-mined
promote plant growth.
soil and feed and mix the organic material into the soil in one
are
designing
sawdust
a machine that
into
soils
under-go
the
The Bureau of Land Management
is sponsoring this
project.
the Center is working
To help improve cone and seed collection techniques
with industry in the South to complete the development of a vacuum seed
The machine built by Bowie Industries Bowie Tex. will
harvester.
If successful
what we anticipate to be its final testing this fall.
the machine should find wide application in tree seed orchards in the South
for collecting tree seed from orchard floors.
The Center has entered into an agreement with the Naval Weapons Center at
China Lake Calif. to develop a safe effective grenade for the control
of avalanche hazards in winter sports areas.
FIRE
AVIATION
concern
projects nearing completion that may benefit field engineers
for
fireline
wild
and
and
blasting
on
dustproofing helispots
explosives
fires.
prescribed
Two
Engineer-ing
PVA
film-forming materials are being used for
These
materials DCA 1295 manufactured by Union
helispot dustproofing.
and
distributed
Carbide
Vynsol
by Environmental Stabilization
materials. They could be used
soil
stabilization
Inc. are basically
Two polyvinyl acetate
l1
in many ways to stabilize disturbed or
soils.
The Center
unvegetated
also designed a portable applicator to be ferried by helicopter.
has
Developmental work on a system for blasting fireline on wild fires is
The explosive will not start fires so it can be used in high
completed.
temperatures or when fuel moisture is low.
Because of these special
the explosive is fairly expensive about $2.50 a foot.
For
this reason the Center is also
evaluating off-shelf explosives that are
less expensive
about
50 cents
a foot for blasting control lines around
prescribed fires.
These off-shelf explosives may start fires so they must
be used at higher fuel moisture contents.
Both systems may have
in engineering field tasks like
line clearing trail construction
and other
boundary line clearing
jobs requiring vegetative
clearing or
con-siderations
applica-tion
L
soil
ditching.
SAFETY AND
FOREST
INSECT
DISEASE
MANAGEMENT
The Occupationkafety
and Health Program for FY 77 includes
a project to
opposition to grader seatbelts
evaluate the practicality
and investigate alternative safety belt
requirement
loca-tion
navi-gation
the
investigate
the seatbelt
of
systems.
The Loran-C navigation system is in the limelight of current
position
It is a low-frequency
systems being studied.
hyperbolic radio
system that may be used in three different modes
position
remote monitoring or tracking and
location
vehicle navigation.
Although this system has many potential uses Center engineers are
1
concen-trating
2
on
paths to
insect
3
its
capability to guide
on predetermined flight
spray aircraft
improve the effective coverage
of pesticide application on forest
epidemics.
perform-ance
Later this year the Center hopes to evaluate a military version of a
Loran-C position location system.
If this system meets expected
it will allow the location and relocation of points to within 50 to
100 feet.
By the end of 1977 80 percent of the National Forests should
have Loran-C coverage.
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CONSULTATION AND
STANDARDS
Charles R. Weller
Assistant Director
AERIAL TRAMWAY SEMINAR--ELECTROMAGNETIC
TESTING
OF WIRE
ROPE
A seminar
on the electromagnetic nondestructive testing of wire rope and
At the first
track cable was held on August 31 in Denver Colorado.
Stachurski
of
session Professor Juliusz
Krakow Poland was the principal
October
At the second session
13-14 Mr. Ernst Kundig of
speaker.
and
of
Jack Lang
Lucerne Switzerland
Scarborough
Canada demonstrated
their equipment and described procedures for its use.
The
seminar
was
the
Service
and
the
Enforcement
and
Forest
sponsored jointly by
Mining
Safety Administration.
seminar was organized to provide information on the new technology and
equipment available in this field to aerial tramway and mining interests
and to develop recommendations on the mandatory use of nondestructive
testing techniques in periodic checking and inspection of wire rope and
An article onthatsubject
is
track cable used for personnel transport.
of
Field
Notes.
planned for an early issue
The
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OPERATIONS
Harold L. Strickland
Assistant Director
FLEET MANAGEMENT
HANDBOOK
After several Regions requested that the Chief reestablish the Service
wide Fleet Management Handbook the WO Administrative Management Staff
asked all Regions to forward material recommended for a new handbook.
-
The Directives Group reviewed the Regions recommendations and decided
that there is sufficient
material to justify development and issuance of
a new FSH for Fleet Management.
Since much of the FSH material will be taken from FSM 7130
will be amended when work on the handbook is completed.
We plan to have
detailers from several Regions
DRIVER-OPERATOR
that
chapter
accomplish this work.
HANDBOOK
The Driver-Operator Guide is being revised it will be published as part
of the Directives system as the Driver-Operator Handbook FSH-7109.18.
The new handbook
reference as was
will be pocket-sized
the Guide.
it
will be as
easy
to
carry for
The handbook is in the final editing stage initial distribution is planned
before the next field session.
After the initial distribution additional
copies
may be ordered through the normal procedures for directives.
FOREST
SERVICE
T
HISTORY
Harold Steens book
S. For
Service--A History can be purchased
from the University of
shin to
ess.
Forest Service employees and
retirees are offered a 20 percent discount
on the retail price of $12.00.
Address inquiries to
University
of
Washington Press
Attn
Pat Soden
Seattle Washington
98105
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