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      <title>US-191 Wildlife and Transportation Conflict Assessment: Preparing for Continued Growth</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Roads sever intact landscapes and serve as one of the greatest threats to wildlife habitat connectivity. Historically, Montana’s iconic species moved freely to and from Yellowstone National Park and habitat in the 1.8-million-acre Gallatin National Forest. This movement is now threatened by higher traffic volumes, road noise, and reduced habitat quality along US-191. Wildlife along busier roads also pose a greater risk to human safety, affecting residents, commuters, and tourists. State Farm Insurance ranks Montana second highest in the U.S. for risk of wildlife-vehicle collision.

Measures to mitigate wildlife-vehicle collisions have been used in Europe since the 1950s and are now regular features in Wyoming, Arizona, and Nevada, among other states. The Center for Large Landscape Conservation recently carried out a habitat connectivity analysis of the Custer-Gallatin national Forest and is poised to help Big Sky achieve its vision of “a community actively working to grow, while…preserv[ing] its natural ecosystem” by developing a robust and publicly vetted assessment and mitigation plan for wildlife-vehicle conflicts in the area. The assessment will serve as a foundational step in road redevelopment planning and prepare Big Sky for implementation opportunities using methodologies already applied on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and in Teton County, Wyoming. This is the first of two phases of this project. Phase 1 is funded by the US Federal Highway Administration and the Big Sky Resort Area District.

The goal of this project is to develop a state-of-the-art Wildlife and Transportation Conflict Assessment for terrestrial and aquatic species along US-191 from Gallatin Canyon to West Yellowstone, and along Lone Mountain Trail, in Montana, to: a) lay the groundwork for implementation of best management practices to protect wildlife and human safety in the face of unprecedented regional traffic growth, b) provide residents and officials of communities along US-191 with essential tools to guide decision making, and c) enable public agencies to prioritize win-win design in future road development.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:08:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise-Airport Community Studies</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:02:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Prediction of Impact on Transport System due to Coastal Flooding under Climate Change</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Global warming and climate change are reshaping our world in many ways. One of their most obvious evidences is sea level rise due to melting of polar glaciers and arctic ice. It is estimated that global sea level rise is at an alarming rate of 0.18cm/yr during 1961-2003, it is even higher at 0.3cm/yr during 1993-2003, and research estimates that sea level could range from 0.8 to 2 m by 2100 under glaciological conditions. Another important consequence of global warming is pattern change and increased variance of precipitation around the world; precipitation increasing and hurricanes becoming stronger and more frequent in high latitudes (Northern Hemisphere). The Northeast region is projected to see an increase in winter precipitation on the order of 20 to 30 percent. Combined effects from sea level rise and increase of variance of precipitation could result in catastrophic coastal flooding under hurricanes and winter storms, putting many major transportation infrastructures, including highways, bridges, and railroads at great risk. The Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) initiated a national study on potential impacts of climate change on U.S. transportation infrastructures. Coastal flood evolution involves multi-physics/multi-scale phenomena and currently there is no appropriate modeling tool to predict impact of coastal flooding on transportation systems. In prediction of flooding at transportation systems, two crucial issues have to be addressed: 1) desired accuracy and resolution in time and space for flooding at transportation systems, 2) modeling of storm surges with sharp fronts (such as the Tsunami in Japan on March, 2011). In view of current status of conditions, the most promising and feasible approach is hybrid method that couples different well-tested models designed for individual water flows. Recently developed were brand new hybrid methods implemented into a framework that couples different models and also applied it to coastal flooding at Cape May, NJ under projected climate change conditions. The framework provides attention to actual transportation systems that  will also be examined. It is expected that the results will be published in a prestigious journal. unprecedented platform to predict and resolve flooding at transportation systems. This project is to study the hybrid methods and validate the developed modeling framework previously proposed in [6-9] on rigorous foundations. In particular, theoretical analysis such as order of accuracy and stability of the framework and systematical numerical experiments on its performance in aspect of solution quality will be made. Feasibility and strategies for its application to actual transportation systems will also be examined. It is expected that the results will be published in a prestigious journal.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:40:51 GMT</pubDate>
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