Application Tool for Assessing Wildlife Passage

Recent research resulted in a new tool called the Passage Assessment System (PAS). This tool is designed for highway staff to use to assess how well existing highway structures are likely perform at passing a wide range of wildlife. The result will help direct investments to the highest priority projects and identify opportunities for making modifications to existing structures to facilitate wildlife movements. The PAS was field tested and showed promising results. This study seeks to develop a digital version of the PAS or application for use on a hand held device and a database structure for storing the data entered on hand held units. Accomplishing these objectives will make it easier to use PAS to evaluate existing transportation infrastructure and to store the information for easy access for multiple transportation planning purposes. Field verification of the PAS application would be completed in participating member states.

• Record URL:
  http://www.pooledfund.org/Details/Study/529

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $160000
• Contract Numbers:

  TPF-5(287)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Texas Department of Transportation

  125 E. 11th Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-2483

  Virginia Department of Transportation

  1408 E Broad Street
  Richmond, VA  United States  23219

  Washington State Department of Transportation

  Transportation Building
  Olympia, WA  United States  98504
• Project Managers:

  Peterson, Jon

• Start Date: 20130900
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20171018
• Source Data: RiP Project 41986

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Capital investments; Field tests; Project management; Transportation planning; Wildlife crossings
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway structures; Passage assessment system (Wildlife crossings)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01566739
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: TPF-5(287)
• Files: RIP, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 22 2015 1:00AM