Monitoring wildlife-vehicle collisions : analysis and cost-benefit of escape ramps for deer and elk on U.S. Highway 550

Siemers, Jeremy L.

Wilson, Kenneth R. (Kenneth Ray)
Baruch-Mordo, Sharon.

United States. Federal Highway Administration.
Colorado. DTD Applied Research and Innovation Branch.

2015

Colorado Department of Transportation, Applied Research and Innovation Branch

Denver, Colo.

Wildlife fencing along highways can lower wildlife-vehicle collision rates by excluding animals from the road right-of-way. Still, animals can breach fencing and end up trapped within the fencing along the highway right-of-way, exposing wildlife and motorists to the risk of collision. Wildlife escape ramps are designed to allow animals safe passage out of the right-of-way. Few recommendations exist on effective design of escape ramps and monitoring data are limited.

Jeremy L. Siemers, Kenneth R. Wilson, and Sharon Baruch-Mordo.
"May 2015."
Prepared in cooperation with the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
Bibliography: pages 19-20.
Report No. CDOT-2015-05.
Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed April 2016)

Traffic safety and wildlife

Colorado

1 online resource (47 pages) : illustrations

eng

TRA2.10/15-5/INTERNET

http://hdl.handle.net/11629/co:21756

946597160

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