Deer-Vehicle Crash Reductions: Setting a Strategic Agenda
October 24-25, 2005 - Madison, WI
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Meeting
Description
The Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse sponsored a national meeting in Madison, WI at the Madison Concourse Hotel on October 24-25, 2005. This meeting brought together leading researchers, transportation and ecology professionals, AAA officials and insurance company representatives to develop a strategic agenda that will guide future activities and policies related to deer-vehicle crash reduction.
In 2000 a similar meeting was held that helped produce a dramatic increase in deer-vehicle crash reduction activities. The approximately 65 to 70 attendees from more than 25 states and 3 countries at the 2005 meeting
- • Reviewed the progress from action items proposed in 2000
- • Listened to internationally-known speakers involved with recent/ongoing projects
- •
Worked within focal groups to propose strategic action plans to guide
future deer-vehicle crash activities related to
- » Research and Data Collection
- » Funding
- »Partnership Building
- »Technology Transfer and Education.
The research agenda that resulted from this meeting will be posted in the coming months.
***Many thanks to our meeting Co-Sponsors (See their Links Below): Federal Highway Administration, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Iowa Department of Transportation, Western Transportation Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, AAA-Wisconsin, AAA-Minnesota/Iowa, Sand County Foundation, and the Center for Transportation and Environment***
Speaker Presentations (available in .ppt)
Mary Gray – Federal Highway Administration, Office of Planning, Environment and Realty, Water and Ecosystems Team
Patrick Hasson – Federal Highway Administration, Safety and Highway Design Technical Service Team Leader, FHWA Resource Center
UW
Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse Projects/Initiatives
Keith Knapp – UW-Madison, Director, Deer-Vehicle Crash Information
Clearinghouse
NCHRP
25-27 Project Update – Wildlife Crossings in North America
Patricia Cramer, Research Associate USGS Utah
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Utah State University
Thinking
Outside the Marketplace: A Biologically Based Approach to Reducing Deer-Vehicle
Collisions
Gino D’Angelo, Graduate Researcher, University
of Georgia-Athens
Marcel Huijser, Research Ecologist, Montana State University
Characteristics
of Vehicle-Animal Crashes in Which Vehicle Occupants are Killed
JoAnn Wells, Senior Research Analyst, Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety
Ann Dellinger, Epidemiologist and Team Leader, Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Environmental
and Human Dimensions of Deer-Vehicle Collisions in Southeastern Michigan
Shawn Riley, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Solutions
on the Horizon: Integrated Planning in the 21st Century
Patricia White, Director of Habitats and Highway Campaign, Defenders
of Wildlife
Critical
Issues - DVC Reduction Research and Data Collection
Keith Knapp, UW-Madison
Funding
Roads & Wildlife Projects
Patricia White, Defenders of Wildlife
Partnership
Building
Richard Miller, Michigan Deer Crash Coalition
Technology
Transfer and Education
Katie McDermott, Technology Transfer Director, North Carolina State
University Center for Transportation and the Environment
Midwest Regional University Transportation Center
Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse
