More than 65 people (with varying backgrounds) involved with or interested in the reduction of deer-vehicle crashes (DVCs) attended the October 2005 “Deer-Vehicle Crash Reductions: Setting a Strategic Agenda” conference. At this meeting the attendees collaborated and brainstormed to identify strategic agenda action items for DVC reduction research ...
One of the challenges faced by transportation and environmental practitioners is to keep pace with policy and technology advancements and capitalize upon new tools and methods as they become available. Several existing efforts and new initiatives are underway to improve practices in the use of tools within transportation program delivery. For examp...
This abstract reports on the results of a California joint DOT-university project to develop database, modeling, and GIS tools and to publish an electronic manual and digital library to address animal-vehicle collision reduction and connectivity issues in the state. Despite the potentially large impacts of roads on wildlife movements and mortality,...
Although there is widespread knowledge of the effects of roads on wildlife populations and driver safety, many transportation departments are reluctant to expend state or federal funds to research and address wildlife movement problems on their highways. For many years, Oregon lacked direction on this issue from natural resource, regulatory, and hi...
Interstate 90 over the Cascades is significant barrier to over 250 species of wildlife, including cougar, elk, deer, mustelids (otters, fishers, badgers, etc.), amphibians and reptiles. In the vicinity of Snoqualmie Pass, urban development to the west and agriculture and resort development on the east has shrunk the forest connecting north and sout...
Transportation agencies across the United States are under increasing pressure to minimize or avoid impacts of transportation projects to important wildlife habitat. With new road construction and lane additions, habitat fragmenta¬tion is becoming more pronounced and its effects are increasingly evident. Transportation projects are often planned, d...
With an absence of predators, deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs) are the primary source of mortality for the endangered Florida Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium). Of these collisions, >50% occur on United States Highway 1 (US 1), the primary inter-island roadway in the Florida Keys. DVCs on the 5.6-km section of US 1 on Big Pine Key (BPK) are r...
Roads have been recognized as a threat to wildlife species for over 80 years. Studies on the effects of roads on ungulates species did not begin till the 1970’s. We identified 53 literature sources that suggested or examined traffic levels or road types and their effects on ungulate-vehicle collisions, ungulate distribution and roadway perme¬abilit...
Project Overview: Recent federal legislation and accompanying rules (SAFETEA-LU) require state Departments of Transportation to increase their levels of collaboration with local jurisdictions and with other state and federal environ¬mental and resource agencies related to the environmental impact of transportation projects. At the same time, they f...
In the next 40 years, the eight counties of the San Joaquin Valley are projected to double in population from 3.3 million to more than 7 million (Great Valley Center 2006). The region faces many challenges with respect to its capacity to accommodate this dramatic increase in population while maintaining its environmental infrastructure and preservi...
