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Record W588681418 · doi:10.2307/jj.41003799.8

Reducing Wildlife–Vehicle Collisions

2012· article· en· W588681418 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePrinceton University Press eBooks · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFencingWildlifeAttractivenessPopulationTransport engineeringGeographyVisibilityPedestrianWarning signsHabitatEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental scienceEcologyComputer scienceEngineeringEnvironmental healthPsychologyMeteorology

Abstract

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This chapter on reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions is from a book on highways, wildlife, and habitat connectivity. The authors describe 41 different types of mitigation measures or different combinations of mitigation measures aimed at reducing collisions with large, wild ungulates in the United States and Canada, including deer. For each measure, they discuss the estimated effectiveness. Some of the measures (n = 16) are aimed at influencing driver behavior and some (n = 25) at influencing animal behavior. Mitigation measures aimed at influencing driver behavior include public information and education, various types of permanent warning signs, seasonal warning signs, animal detection systems, measures that increase the visibility for drivers, measures that reduce traffic volume, temporary road closures, reduced vehicle speed, and wildlife crossing assistants. Mitigation measures aimed at influencing animal behavior include measures directed at scaring ungulates away from the road and road corridor, alerting them to approaching traffic, reducing the attractiveness of the road or road sides, increasing the attractiveness of areas away from the road, providing them with a resting area when crossing multiple lanes of traffic, pathways that allow animals to escape from the road corridor, population size reduction efforts, physical barriers that keep animals off the road, and elevating or tunneling roads. The authors conclude that long bridges and tunnels, wildlife fencing in combination with underpasses and overpasses, and animal detection systems, with or without wildlife fencing, are among the most effective measures to reduce collisions with large ungulates.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.854
Threshold uncertainty score0.393

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.196 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it