Flattened fauna and mitigation: Traffic victims related to road, traffic, vehicle, and species characteristics

Jaarsma, C.F.; Langevelde, Frank van; Botma, H

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2006.05.001

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“…O estado de São Paulo possui a maior frota de veículos do Brasil (DENATRAN, 2012) e a maior parte de suas rodovias está sob a gerência de empresas concessionárias (CNT, 2012), que são aquelas em melhor estado de conservação (CNT, 2012). Estradas melhores possibilitam que os veículos atinjam velocidades mais altas e, junto com o maior fluxo de veículos, podem explicar a maior frequência de acidentes e ajudar a indicar medidas para reduzir esses acidentes (Jaarsma et al, 2006). Diversas organizações e empresas relacionadas a veículos e a rodovias, particularmente as empresas concessionárias, devem buscar a excelência em suas rodovias através do ISO 39001 e a redução das colisões entre veículos e animais deve ser uma de suas metas, sendo potenciais apoiadores de investimentos em medidas mitigadoras de acidentes entre veículos e animais.…”

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A perspectiva da mídia online sobre os acidentes entre veículos e animais em rodovias brasileiras: uma questão de segurança?

Freitas

Barszcz

2015

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Artigo recebido em 25 de junho de 2014, versão final aceita em 12 de setembro de 2014. RESUMO:As colisões entre veículos e animais são um problema de segurança pública e de conservação da biodiversidade. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os acidentes causados por colisões entre veículos e animais, analisando os animais envolvidos, o número de mortos e feridos, além da distribuição espacial e temporal desses acidentes no Brasil. Para tanto, utilizamos como método de amostragem notícias, disponíveis na internet, de acidentes entre veículos e animais registrados no Brasil no período de cinco anos. Analisamos 125 acidentes, que envolveram 135 animais, tendo como consequência 66 pessoas mortas, 166 feridos e 73 animais mortos. O principal resultado foi que a maioria dos acidentes envolveu animais domésticos, acarretando, principalmente, em pessoas feridas. No entanto, os acidentes com animais silvestres levaram mais pessoas a óbito, particularmente aqueles envolvendo capivaras. Além disso, discutimos as medidas mitigadoras mais adequadas e quais setores econômicos poderiam se interessar pelo tema.Palavras-chave: ecologia de estradas; animais domésticos; animais silvestres; segurança; óbitos.ABSTRACT: Wildlife-vehicle collisions are a concern for public security and biodiversity conservation. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accidents caused by wildlife-vehicle collisions, analyzing the animals involved, the number of deceased and injured people, as well as the space and time distribution of accidents in Brazil. Therefore, we use as sampling method, news on accidents between vehicles and animals recorded in Brazil over a 5 years period, available on the web. We analyzed 125 accidents including 135 animals, 66 dead people, 166 injured people and 73 dead animals. The main result was that most of the accidents involved domestic animals, causing mainly injured people; however, accidents with wildlife caused more deceases, particularly involving capybaras. In addition, we discussed the most suitable mitigation measures and the economic sectors that could be interested in this issue.

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A perspectiva da mídia online sobre os acidentes entre veículos e animais em rodovias brasileiras: uma questão de segurança?

Freitas

Barszcz

2015

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“…Frequent human access prohibits effective low-cost measures on these roads such as fencing. Therefore, another type of intervention must be used for minor roads such as the reduction of traffic volumes, either temporally or permanently, or the reduction of vehicle speed (Jones 2000), which has been shown to dramatically decrease mortality risk (Jaarsma et al 2006). …”

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Modeling the Effect of Traffic Calming on Local Animal Population Persistence

Langevelde¹,

Jaarsma²

2009

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ABSTRACT. A steady growth in traffic volumes in industrialized countries with dense human populations is expected, especially on minor roads. As a consequence, the fragmentation of wildlife populations will increase dramatically. In human-dominated landscapes, typically minor roads occur in high densities, and animals encounter them frequently. Traffic calming is a new approach to mitigate negative impacts by reducing traffic volumes and speeds on minor roads at a regional scale. This leads to a distinction between roads with low volumes as being part of the traffic-calmed area, whereas roads with bundled traffic are located around this area. Within the traffic-calmed area, volumes and speeds can be decreased substantially; this is predicted to decrease the disturbance and mortality risk for animals. Thus far, data on the effects of traffic calming on wildlife population persistence remain scarce. Using metapopulation theory, we derived a model to estimate thresholds in the size of traffic-calmed areas and traffic volumes that may allow persistent populations. Our model suggests that traffic calming largely increases the persistence of roe deer in a landscape with a dense road network. Our modeling results show trade-offs between traffic volume on roads within the traffic-calmed area and both the area of habitat available for this species in the trafficcalmed area and the size of the traffic-calmed area. These results suggest ways to mitigate the fragmentation of wildlife habitat by road networks and their expected traffic volumes.

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“…the daily rhythm of foraging and resting, periodical migrations, mating and breeding habits and dispersal of juveniles) [23]- [25], key elements that affect the spatial patterns are population density, landscape structure and habitat distribution [26]. Location and timing of accidents can also be influenced by traffic and road related factors [22] [27] [28], as well as temporary variations of environmental factors e.g. temperature, rainfall or snow cover [29].…”

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Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Wildlife Road Mortality in Golestan National Park-North East of Iran

Kazemi¹,

Jafari²,

Yavari³

2016

OJE

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Nowadays, wildlife road mortality is acknowledged as a main source of threatening long-term survival of wildlife. This paper as the first to analysis wild life vehicle collisions in Iran, aims to reconstruct and interpret the spatio-temporal patterns of WVCs on Asiaei highway in Golestan National Park (GNP). With the collaboration of environmental protection department of GNP, we identified about 1900 WVC Records involving 34 different species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians between 2004 and 2013. Mammals were involved in more than 50% of overall WVCs, among which wild boar (Sus scrofa), Golden Jackal (Canis aureus), Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor), stone marten (Martes foina) and porcupine (Hystrix indica) were involved in more than 90% of mammals' mortalities; So, we focused on analyzing spatio-temporal pattern of vehicle collisions of these six mammal species. During the study period, these species have undergone 95% increase in road mortalities, averagely. Detailed temporal analyses exhibited an increasing trend of road mortalities from spring to summer and then a reducing one to late winter. It was shown that a large number of collisions occurred in holiday periods when recreational trips considerably increased the traffic volume of Asiaei highway. Preliminary inspection of spatial patterns using Kernel density analysis revealed six collision hotspots, mostly located in the road bends with densely forested land cover on both sides; the promenades along the road seemed to play a significant role too. Scale dependency analyses of collision patterns, demonstrated clustering pattern at micro scales less than 10 km, randomness at meso scales 10 -20 km and both regularity and clustering at macro scales more than 20 km. This paper suggests that road mortality of common species in GNP is a momentous issue, which needs to be considered by relevant governmental and public organizations. We also emphasize that the analyses of spatial and temporal patterns of WVCs are fundamentals to plan for mitigate wildlife road mortality.

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Flattened fauna and mitigation: Traffic victims related to road, traffic, vehicle, and species characteristics

Cited by 67 publications

References 12 publications

A perspectiva da mídia online sobre os acidentes entre veículos e animais em rodovias brasileiras: uma questão de segurança?

A perspectiva da mídia online sobre os acidentes entre veículos e animais em rodovias brasileiras: uma questão de segurança?

Modeling the Effect of Traffic Calming on Local Animal Population Persistence

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Wildlife Road Mortality in Golestan National Park-North East of Iran

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