Transportsimulation für eine nachhaltige, resiliente und qualitätserhaltende Holzlogistik

Wood is the renewable raw material of the future contributing strongly to a sustainable development. Climate crisis induced forest calamities such as windstorms followed by insect infestations challenge wood supply chain management. To fulfil increasing production amounts sustainable, resilient, and quality-preserving wood logistics is needed. Discrete event simulation provides an excellent methodology for a digital representation of wood supply chains focusing on straightforward business processes. Further strengths in facilitating stakeholder participation and establishing credibility through visualization and animation enable the implementation of quantitative decision support for researchers, students, and stakeholders of wood supply chains. Consequently, unique models for unimodal, multimodal, and multi-echelon unimodal wood transport are presented, which enable multicriteria-based strategy development, optimal fleet configurations, and wood
quality preservation in challenging scenarios. The presented models were applied in scientific, educational, and managerial settings and set the stage for knowledge transfer in serious-game-based workshops, advanced risk management, and contingency planning.