Incorporating Wildlife Crossings into TxDOT's Project Development Design and Operations Processes
Wildlife crossings are areas of concentrated animal movement intercepted by roadways. Animal-vehicle collisions lead to mortality of animals and safety concerns to the motoring public. These collisions can be costly in terms of damage to vehicles, loss of life of people and wildlife, and improving or retrofitting facilities to avoid these adverse interactions needs to be evaluated for efficiency. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have published national guidelines for crossing structures, data collection, and fencing. This research project will allow Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to update its manuals and specifications to make them current with successful practices used nationwide and around the world. To assist TxDOT in addressing these goals, the researchers will incorporate updates and additions for implementing national recommendations for incorporating wildlife crossings related information into TxDOT’s manuals and specifications. They will synthesize TxDOT’s institutional knowledge and undertake reviews to compare TxDOT’s efforts to other state DOTs and FHWA recommendations, to determine practices for design and retrofitting to work best in the context of Texas’ unique natural wildlife diversity and transportation infrastructure. The researchers will then identify appropriate techniques for different species in different Texas biogeographic contexts, provide the costs and benefits, and update TxDOT manuals and documents accordingly.
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Supplemental Notes:
- "No publications produced. See TxDOT Research Project 0-6971"
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Terminated
- Funding: $87346
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Contract Numbers:
0-6930
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Sponsor Organizations:
Texas Department of Transportation
125 E. 11th Street
Austin, TX United States 78701-2483 -
Project Managers:
Glancy, Chris
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Performing Organizations:
University of Texas, San Antonio
1 UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX United States 78249 -
Principal Investigators:
Sharif, Hatim
- Start Date: 20160728
- Expected Completion Date: 20170831
- Actual Completion Date: 20170831
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Animal migrations; Animals; Crashes; Habitat (Ecology); Road kill; Roadside fauna; Wildlife crossings
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01626208
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Texas Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 0-6930
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Feb 17 2017 2:41PM