Best Practices for Preventing Wildlife–Vehicle Collisions

This article briefly reviews the characteristics of wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs); identifies the 21 threatened and endangered species for which road mortality is among the major threats to survival in the United States; and presents the findings of an expert panel concerning WVC mitigation measures that should be implemented, that should be researched further and that should be neither implemented nor researched further.

• Record URL:
  • https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22039
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• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/07386826
• Authors:
  • McGowen, Patrick Tracy
  • Huijser, Marcel P
• Publication Date: 2009-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 14-15
• Serial:
  • TR News
  • Issue Number: 262
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0738-6826
  • Serial URL: https://doi.org/10.17226/895

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Animal vehicle crashes; Best practices; Crash characteristics; Endangered species; Recommendations; Road kill; Wildlife
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mitigation practices
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01135834
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 23 2009 3:39PM