Regional Plans of Forest Development (RPFD)-Forest road network (FRN)

Forest road network (FRN) includes transportation facilities of any kind which serve for trailing the wood and other forest products, transportation of forest management staff and material to connect forest complexes onto the public road network, and other purposes.The forest roads are classified into the 4 categories according to the Czech standard ČSN 73 6108. The forest logging roads of the category 1L and 2L are included in the RPFD (Regional Plans of Forest Development) datasets at FMI. Apart from the logging roads, the datasets include also other purpose-build roads and public roads of lower level (the small local roads) which pass through the forests and serve for logging purposes – stocking, loading and transportation of wood. Further, the RPFD datasets include roads so-called links (interconnects) serving to connect the logging roads outside of forests and to connect the forest road network with the public road system. Typically these are local roads of category 2L or higher. The layers of Roads, Highways and streets from the Elementary base of geographic data ZABAGED® ČÚZK are considered as the public road network data for this purpose.The logging roads in RPFD are classified into the categories:L1L – forest logging roads for all year utilisation and reasonable surface qualityL2L – forest logging roads for at least seasonal utilisation with the simple dust surface, reinforced, or non-reinforced on the bearable subsoilV1L – other (non-forest) roads important for the transportation of wood corresponding to forest logging road of category 1LV2L – other (non-forest) roads important for the transportation of wood corresponding to forest logging road of category 2L N – proposition for adding a new road into the FRN, reconstruction of an existing logging road which lost the category characteristic due to the operational damage