Roads and Connectivity in Colorado: Animal-Vehicle Collisions, Wildlife Mitigation Structures, and Lynx-Roadway Interactions

Details

• Creators:
  Crooks, Kevin R. ; Haas, Chris ; Baruch-Mordo, Sharon ; Middledorf, Kris ; Magle, Seth ; Shenk, Tanya ; Wilson, Ken ; Theobald, Dave
• Corporate Creators:
  Colorado State University ; Colorado Division of Wildlife
• Corporate Contributors:
  Colorado. Department of Transportation. Applied Research & Innovations Branch ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Monitoring
  • Highways
  • Underpasses
  • Wildlife crossings
  • Habitat
  • Animal vehicle crashes
  • Traffic mitigation
  • Data collection
  • Field tests
  • lynx monitoring
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CDOT-2008-4
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Colorado
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Colorado Department of Transportation. Applied Research & Innovations Branch
• Abstract:
  This report investigates the impact of highways and landscape connectivity in Colorado. To do so, it describes three complementary research questions. Given the threat of roads to both wildlife populations and human safety, describing the distribution of animal vehicle collisions (AVC) is a necessary step in understanding potential roadway impacts. In the first section, hotspots of AVC occurrence on highways throughout Colorado are identified, and the characteristics associated with such areas are described. To address roadway impacts, mitigation efforts are increasingly common, although rigorous assessments of the functionality of such mitigation treatments are relatively rare. The second section reviews research efforts to design and implement field monitoring of roadway-wildlife interactions at three road segments in Colorado slated for construction and installation of wildlife crossing structures. This corresponds to CDOT's Highway Corridor Wildlife Mitigation/Habitat Connectivity Research Study Phases II & III: Development of Mitigation Goals and Pre-Construction Data Collection.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  32.43/32.44
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92959/dot_92959_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.11 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:31e603ae43fecc06abed74a3160d189172d3e906159eb60dad5b09cd2309d94a3db3c4fd103a4d2f3116b373f61dbff8ca029b7b8163abdd8f2360b24c6e2f5f