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Title:

HIGHWAY FENCES AS DETERRENTS TO VEHICLE-DEER COLLISIONS

Accession Number:

00193682

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981

Abstract:

A survey of highway fencing along I-80 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, showed that 2.26-m (7.41-ft) type 3 modified fence has little value as a deterrent to vehicle-deer collisions; many deer crawl under the fence to the planted right-of-way, and the many gaps underneath provide easy penetration. From December 1974 through March 1976, numbers and position of deer were observed from a vehicle driven along 9.65 km (6 miles) of I-80 at night. Bimodal patterns of abundance were found. Deer were most numerous in spring and fall. Of 2577 deer sightings, 74.5 percent were on the highway side and 25.5 percent on the far side of the fence. Comparisons between a control area on the north side of the highway, where the fence was unmodified, and test areas on the south side, where gaps underneath were plugged or the top five wires were removed or repaired or both, showed that large numbers of deer crossed a fully repaired fence. Only six deer were reported killed during the 16 months of the study, and no live deer were seen on the highway. These results, relative to previous findings beginning in 1967, strongly suggest that high traffic volumes prevent deer from venturing onto the highway, thus reducing collisions. /Author/

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appeared in TRB Record 674, Maintenance Decision Making and Energy Use, Roadside and Pavement Management, and Preferential Bridge Icing. Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Roadside Maintenance. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411513

Authors:

Bellis, Edward D
Graves, H B

Pagination:

pp 53-58

Publication Date:

1978

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 674
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures (1) ; References (7) ; Tables (2)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Seasonal variations

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Design; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

May 11 1979 12:00AM

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