An IBM Analytics optimization solution is helping the College of the Environment at the University of Washington design smarter routes for timber harvests, reduce the size of the forest road network and minimize the environmental impact of forestry operations.
Read More: http://ibm.co/1ZvN1Uv Sandor Toth, Associate Professor of Natural Resource Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, explains What we found is that we could retire basically 15 percent of the total length of the road network during the next couple of decades and still increase net present value by about one or two percent.