The State Agency of Forest Resources of Ukraine will create an atlas of forest roads of Ukraine, a pilot project of mapping of transport infrastructure of individual forestries in the Carpathian region will soon be implemented.
As Yuriy Bolohovets, the Head of Department informed, the development of atlas is necessary because the existing forest road maps are outdated and not always correspond to reality, so it is not possible to drive on many of the roads marked on them.
“To date, it has been decided to create “Atlas of forest roads of Ukraine” in the future. In the nearest future a pilot project of transport development of a separate forestry will be realized. All existing forest roads, which can be used by a forest car, will be mapped and a network of routes for forest roads construction in the future will be designed,” – the Head of Department wrote in Facebook on Tuesday.
He also reminded that the inventory process of forest transportation network was initiated by the State Forestry Agency 11 years ago, when they issued an order on the introduction of geographic information systems for registration and inventory of forest roads. However, this system accounted mainly for newly constructed roads.
Bolokhovets noted that Ukraine’s need for the construction of new roads is estimated at thousands of kilometers per year, while in fact hundreds of kilometers of roads are built and repaired annually.
“In recent years, maintenance and construction of new roads has been carried out mainly at the expense of forestry enterprises, based on the financial status of each of them. Therefore, the volume of new roads leaves much to be desired. For example, 240 kilometers of forest roads were built, repaired and reconstructed in 2020. In 2021, 131 km of roadbed was built and 161 km of roadbed was arranged. Construction this year continues, but the volume is also small. The need is much more, “- summed up the head of the State Forestry Agency.
